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The cathedral on Plaza de Bolivar, Bogota
BogotaThe cathedral on Plaza de Bolivar
The white medina above the harbour walls, Essaouira
EssaouiraThe white medina above the harbour walls

Photos: Bogota by Bernard Gagnon, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Essaouira by Manel Cusido, Pexels License.

Bogota or Essaouira?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Bogota for

  • nightlife
  • live music and the arts
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Bogota’s own page.

Choose Essaouira for

  • beaches
  • wellness
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Essaouira’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Bogota 5, Essaouira 47: Essaouira leads by 42 points.
Food & drink. Bogota 66, Essaouira 44: Bogota leads by 22 points.
Culture & sights. Bogota 68, Essaouira 48: Bogota leads by 20 points.
Nightlife. Bogota 72, Essaouira 14: Bogota leads by 58 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bogota 64, Essaouira 57: Bogota leads by 7 points.
Day trips. Bogota 52, Essaouira 17: Bogota leads by 35 points.
Good for families. Bogota 45, Essaouira 42: Bogota leads by 3 points.
Getting around. Bogota 36, Essaouira 58: Essaouira leads by 22 points.
Shopping & style. Bogota 52, Essaouira 44: Bogota leads by 8 points.
Affordability. Bogota 77, Essaouira 74: Bogota leads by 3 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bogota 64, Essaouira 28: Bogota leads by 36 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bogota 28, Essaouira 66: Essaouira leads by 38 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bogota and Essaouira.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Bogota
Best match
52match

Wins on nightlife and live music and the arts with your weighting.

Essaouira
45match

Wins on beaches and wellness with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Bogota in July

17 °Cdaytime high
10 °Cnight-time low
49 mmrain in the month
4 hsunshine a day
No seasea
12 hdaylight a day

Essaouira in July

22 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
20 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Essaouira has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bogota: 1991-2020 normals, Bogota / Eldorado (14.1 km from centre). Essaouira: 1991-2020 normals, Essaouira (1.4 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBogotaEssaouira
Official languageSpanishArabic, Standard Moroccan Tamazight
CurrencyColombian Peso (COP)Moroccan Dirham (MAD)
SocketsAB110 V, 60 HzCE50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5UTC+1
Emergency number123Police 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15
Elevation2,582 m11 m
Main airportEl Dorado International Airport (BOG)13 km from centre98 non-stop destinationsEssaouira-Mogador Airport (ESU)15 km from centre13 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year19 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBogotaEssaouira
City population8,034,64982,962
People per km²5,09216,592
Museums within 10 km302
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C-None

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Non-stop route lists from the "Airlines and destinations" tables on English Wikipedia airport articles, by Wikipedia contributors, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0. Currency from the ISO 4217 register maintained by SIX, cross-checked against country data from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Price level from World Bank open data (PPP conversion factor for private consumption and official exchange rate), CC BY 4.0. Time zones from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0); clock offsets computed from the IANA time zone database. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.