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The Teatro Colón, Buenos Aires
Buenos AiresThe Teatro Colón
The Koutoubia Mosque from its gardens, Marrakech
MarrakechThe Koutoubia Mosque from its gardens

Photos: Buenos Aires by Bernard Gagnon, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Marrakech by Jorge Franganillo, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Buenos Aires or Marrakech?

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 Buenos Aires for

  • nightlife
  • live music and the arts
  • day trips

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

Choose Marrakech for

  • wellness
  • nature and the outdoors
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Marrakech’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. Buenos Aires and Marrakech are level on 7.
Food & drink. Buenos Aires 75, Marrakech 64: Buenos Aires leads by 11 points.
Culture & sights. Buenos Aires 71, Marrakech 76: Marrakech leads by 5 points.
Nightlife. Buenos Aires 95, Marrakech 33: Buenos Aires leads by 62 points.
Nature & outdoors. Buenos Aires 38, Marrakech 70: Marrakech leads by 32 points.
Day trips. Buenos Aires 60, Marrakech 28: Buenos Aires leads by 32 points.
Good for families. Buenos Aires 52, Marrakech 25: Buenos Aires leads by 27 points.
Getting around. Buenos Aires 62, Marrakech 38: Buenos Aires leads by 24 points.
Shopping & style. Buenos Aires 60, Marrakech 72: Marrakech leads by 12 points.
Affordability. Buenos Aires 55, Marrakech 72: Marrakech leads by 17 points.
Live music & performing arts. Buenos Aires 75, Marrakech 25: Buenos Aires leads by 50 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Buenos Aires 28, Marrakech 75: Marrakech leads by 47 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Buenos Aires and Marrakech.

Your match

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

Buenos Aires
Best match
57match

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

Marrakech
49match

Wins on wellness and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Buenos Aires in July

15 °Cdaytime high
8 °Cnight-time low
50 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
13 °Csea
10 hdaylight a day

Marrakech in July

38 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
No seasea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Buenos AiresMarrakech

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Buenos Aires: 1991-2020 normals, Aeroparque Bs. As. Aerodrome (4.9 km from centre). Marrakech: 1991-2020 normals, Marrakech (5.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBuenos AiresMarrakech
Official languageSpanishArabic, Standard Moroccan Tamazight
CurrencyArgentine Peso (ARS)Moroccan Dirham (MAD)
SocketsCI220 V, 50 HzCE50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC-3UTC+1
Emergency number117 or 911Police 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15
Elevation25 m465 m
Main airportEzeiza International Airport - Ministro Pistarini (EZE)28 km from centre48 non-stop destinationsMarrakesh Menara Airport (RAK)6 km from centre113 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBuenos AiresMarrakech
City population3,121,7071,002,697
People per km²15,3554,360
Museums within 10 km7614
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months-

Where else could you go?

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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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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. 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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.