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Bucharest or Marrakech?

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

Your match

Bucharest
✓ Best match
55
match

Wins on nightlife and good for families with your weighting.

Marrakech
50
match

Wins on year-round weather and nature & day trips 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.

BucharestMarrakech
Beaches & swimming. Bucharest and Marrakech are level on 0.
BucharestMarrakech
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km30
Coast distance198 km134 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Bucharest leads by 13 points.13
BucharestMarrakech
Score6754
Restaurants within 2 km of centre667461
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4126
Museums & heritage. Bucharest leads by 5 points.5
BucharestMarrakech
Score4944
Museums within 10 km7322
Museums within 2 km of centre4017
Share of museums within 2 km %5577
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Bucharest leads by 25 points.25
BucharestMarrakech
Score6237
Drinking venues within 4 km1,017282
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre541161
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5357
Nightclubs within 4 km8032
Nature & day trips. Marrakech leads by 16 points.16
BucharestMarrakech
Score3652
Protected land share 50 km %4
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km133 hectares47 hectares
Good for families. Bucharest leads by 15 points.15
BucharestMarrakech
Score6853
Tourist attractions within 2 km4528
Park area within 2 km133 hectares47 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km22
Sights concentration. Bucharest leads by 15 points.15
BucharestMarrakech
Score6146
Notable places within 2 km13055
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Marrakech leads by 1 points.1
BucharestMarrakech
Score8586
Price level global40.939.8
Daily budget€99
Year-round weather. Marrakech leads by 18 points.18
BucharestMarrakech
Score6381
Monthly daytime high2.8 °C to 30.5 °C19.1 °C to 37.6 °C
Monthly rainfall33 mm to 82 mm1 mm to 36 mm
Dry months112
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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F
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M
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A
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D
Daytime high, °C
Bucharest
3
6
12
19
24
28
30
31
25
18
11
4
Marrakech
19
21
24
26
30
34
38
37
33
29
23
20
Rainfall, mm
Bucharest
40
33
42
49
71
82
68
48
62
59
44
47
Marrakech
26
27
36
28
9
3
1
3
14
19
29
25
Daylight, hours per day
Bucharest
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
Bucharest
2
4
5
6
8
9
10
9
7
5
3
2
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. Bucharest: 1991-2020 normals, Bucuresti / Imh (10 km from centre). Marrakech: 1991-2020 normals, Marrakech (5.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBucharestMarrakech
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 10 m
€72-175
OTP · 18 km
3 h 20 m
€140-172
RAK · 6 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 50 m
€118-127
OTP · 18 km
3 h 10 m
€85-123
RAK · 6 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 15 m
€45-61
OTP · 18 km
3 h 10 m
€61-121
RAK · 6 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
2 h 45 m
€82-113
OTP · 18 km
3 h 30 m
€122-160
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 0 m
€79-110
OTP · 18 km
3 h 10 m
€115-186
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
MadridMAD
3 h 35 m
€109-143
1 stop
OTP · 18 km
1 h 55 m
€64-110
RAK · 6 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 10 m
€121-131
OTP · 18 km
4 h 40 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 45 m
€198-212
1 stop
OTP · 18 km
3 h 40 m
€201-233
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
2 h 30 m
€144-199
OTP · 18 km
5 h 25 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
9 h 40 m
€669-837
1 stop
OTP · 18 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

MeasureBucharestMarrakech
Official languageRomanianArabic, Standard Moroccan Tamazight
CurrencyRomanian Leu (RON)Moroccan Dirham (MAD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCE50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC+1
Emergency number112Police 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15
Elevation70 m465 m
Main airportBucharest Henri Coandă International Airport (OTP)18 km from centre123 non-stop destinationsMarrakesh Menara Airport (RAK)6 km from centre118 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureBucharestMarrakech
City population1,716,9611,002,697
People per km²7,5974,360
Museums within 10 km4114
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre6856

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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). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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.

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.