VacationSelector

Bologna or Marrakech?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Bologna
52
match

Wins on museums & heritage and nightlife with your weighting.

Marrakech
50
match

Wins on value for money and year-round weather with your weighting.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

BolognaMarrakech
Beaches & swimming. Bologna and Marrakech are level on 0.
BolognaMarrakech
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km20
Coast distance74 km134 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Bologna leads by 4 points.4
BolognaMarrakech
Score5854
Restaurants within 2 km of centre822461
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2026
Museums & heritage. Bologna leads by 23 points.23
BolognaMarrakech
Score6744
Museums within 10 km5822
Museums within 2 km of centre4317
Share of museums within 2 km %7477
Unesco sites within 50 km31
Nightlife. Bologna leads by 16 points.16
BolognaMarrakech
Score5337
Drinking venues within 4 km720282
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre531161
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7457
Nightclubs within 4 km3032
Nature & day trips. Marrakech leads by 13 points.13
BolognaMarrakech
Score3952
Protected land share 50 km %7
Landscape blanket share 50 km %10
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km119 hectares47 hectares
Good for families. Bologna leads by 2 points.2
BolognaMarrakech
Score5553
Tourist attractions within 2 km3228
Park area within 2 km119 hectares47 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km02
Sights concentration. Bologna leads by 14 points.14
BolognaMarrakech
Score6046
Notable places within 2 km12055
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Marrakech leads by 18 points.18
BolognaMarrakech
Score6886
Price level global64.939.8
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Marrakech leads by 14 points.14
BolognaMarrakech
Score6781
Monthly daytime high7 °C to 31.5 °C19.1 °C to 37.6 °C
Monthly rainfall34 mm to 75 mm1 mm to 36 mm
Dry months512
0255075100

When should you go?

The figures behind each month. Each row is shaded against that destination's own year, so the deepest cell is its best month for that measure and the palest its weakest. Shades are not comparable between the two rows.

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Daytime high, °C
Bologna
7
10
15
19
24
29
32
32
26
19
13
8
Marrakech
19
21
24
26
30
34
38
37
33
29
23
20
Rainfall, mm
Bologna
36
36
49
54
50
37
34
40
75
75
70
58
Marrakech
26
27
36
28
9
3
1
3
14
19
29
25
Daylight, hours per day
Bologna
9
10
12
13
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Marrakech
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
11
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Bologna
3
4
6
7
8
10
11
10
7
5
3
3
Marrakech
8
8
8
9
10
11
11
10
9
8
8
7

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bologna: 1991-2020 normals, Bologna / Borgo Panigale (5.5 km from centre). Marrakech: 1991-2020 normals, Marrakech (5.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBolognaMarrakech
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 0 m
€114-267
BLQ · 6 km
3 h 20 m
€140-172
RAK · 6 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€158-262
1 stop
BLQ · 6 km
3 h 10 m
€85-123
RAK · 6 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 40 m
€42-75
BLQ · 6 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
1 h 40 m
no fares
BLQ · 6 km
3 h 30 m
€122-160
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
MadridMAD
2 h 10 m
no fares
BLQ · 6 km
1 h 55 m
€64-110
RAK · 6 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 25 m
€154-191
1 stop
BLQ · 6 km
4 h 40 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
BucharestOTP, BBU
2 h 5 m
€74-144
BLQ · 6 km
4 h 30 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 25 m
no fares
BLQ · 6 km
3 h 35 m
€144-224
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
CasablancaCMN
3 h 5 m
€180-238
1 stop
BLQ · 6 km
55 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 30 m
€637-650
VCE · 138 km
7 h 35 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km

The busiest departure cities for these two, with a place kept for each other part of the world. Busiest means arriving passengers where an official count exists, and where none does, the number of non-stop services flown: official route statistics are published by the European reporting countries and by nobody else, so a table ranked on them alone would offer a reader in New York or Tokyo ten European cities. Flying times are estimated from the distance between airports, and every row is a city flown non-stop to both. Where the typical offer connects anyway, the stops are shown. Under each figure is the airport the flight lands at and how far that is from the centre, because the nearest airport is not always the one a route is flown to. Where both columns name the same airport it is one flight, and the difference between the two is the distance printed beside it. Typical return fares for 2026-08 to 2026-09, cached market data up to 7 days old. The figure is the middle half of the offers found, so a single price means they agreed and a range means they did not; for a typical route that middle half spans about a quarter of the median, and for the least settled routes rather more than the median itself.

Before you go

MeasureBolognaMarrakech
Official languageItalianArabic, Standard Moroccan Tamazight
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Moroccan Dirham (MAD)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzCE50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1
Emergency number112Police 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15
Elevation54 m465 m
Main airportBologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport (BLQ)6 km from centre97 non-stop destinationsMarrakesh Menara Airport (RAK)6 km from centre118 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureBolognaMarrakech
City population387,9711,002,697
People per km²2,7544,360
Museums within 10 km6614
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km31
Distinct cuisines in the centre6256

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Sources

© OpenStreetMap contributors, data available under the Open Database Licence. Place counts include data from Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA Permissive 2.0), assembled from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and other providers. Notable-place counts from Wikidata (CC0), weighted by Wikipedia language editions. Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

Scores follow rubric v2; snapshot generated 2026-08-31. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.