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Brussels or Marrakech?

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

Your match

Brussels
✓ Best match
56
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.

BrusselsMarrakech
Beaches & swimming. Brussels and Marrakech are level on 0.
BrusselsMarrakech
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km00
Coast distance56 km134 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Brussels leads by 27 points.27
BrusselsMarrakech
Score8154
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,779461
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4426
Museums & heritage. Brussels leads by 36 points.36
BrusselsMarrakech
Score8044
Museums within 10 km12022
Museums within 2 km of centre5917
Share of museums within 2 km %4977
Unesco sites within 50 km101
Nightlife. Brussels leads by 31 points.31
BrusselsMarrakech
Score6837
Drinking venues within 4 km1,414282
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre862161
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6157
Nightclubs within 4 km8432
Nature & day trips. Marrakech leads by 21 points.21
BrusselsMarrakech
Score3152
Protected land share 50 km %6
Landscape blanket share 50 km %10
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km65 hectares47 hectares
Good for families. Brussels leads by 3 points.3
BrusselsMarrakech
Score5653
Tourist attractions within 2 km2828
Park area within 2 km65 hectares47 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km22
Sights concentration. Brussels leads by 27 points.27
BrusselsMarrakech
Score7346
Notable places within 2 km25455
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Marrakech leads by 26 points.26
BrusselsMarrakech
Score6086
Price level global76.239.8
Daily budget€180
Year-round weather. Marrakech leads by 24 points.24
BrusselsMarrakech
Score5781
Monthly daytime high6.1 °C to 23.3 °C19.1 °C to 37.6 °C
Monthly rainfall47 mm to 90 mm1 mm to 36 mm
Dry months012
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
Brussels
6
7
11
15
18
21
23
23
20
15
10
6
Marrakech
19
21
24
26
30
34
38
37
33
29
23
20
Rainfall, mm
Brussels
77
67
59
47
61
72
80
90
67
71
75
89
Marrakech
26
27
36
28
9
3
1
3
14
19
29
25
Daylight, hours per day
Brussels
9
10
12
14
16
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Marrakech
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
11
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Brussels
2
2
4
6
6
7
7
6
5
4
2
1
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. Brussels: 1991-2020 normals, Uccle (5.2 km from centre). Marrakech: 1991-2020 normals, Marrakech (5.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBrusselsMarrakech
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 5 m
€98-165
1 stop
BRU · 11 km
3 h 20 m
€140-172
RAK · 6 km
MadridMAD
2 h 15 m
€98-170
BRU · 11 km
1 h 55 m
€64-110
RAK · 6 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 55 m
€47-116
BRU · 11 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 0 m
no fares
BRU · 11 km
3 h 10 m
€85-123
RAK · 6 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 25 m
€36-101
BRU · 11 km
3 h 10 m
€61-121
RAK · 6 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 40 m
€120-263
BRU · 11 km
1 h 35 m
€64-110
RAK · 6 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 5 m
€87-136
1 stop
BRU · 11 km
3 h 10 m
€115-186
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 20 m
no fares
CRL · 43 km
3 h 35 m
€124-167
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 0 m
€138-162
2 stops
BRU · 11 km
3 h 35 m
€144-224
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 11 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 2026-10, 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

MeasureBrusselsMarrakech
Official languageFrench, German, DutchArabic, Standard Moroccan Tamazight
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Moroccan Dirham (MAD)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCE50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1
Emergency number112Police 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15
Elevation70 m465 m
Main airportBrussels Airport (BRU)11 km from centre191 non-stop destinationsMarrakesh Menara Airport (RAK)6 km from centre118 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureBrusselsMarrakech
City population195,5461,002,697
People per km²5,9084,360
Museums within 10 km10514
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km101
Distinct cuisines in the centre10956

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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.