VacationSelector

Buenos Aires or Marrakech?

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

Your match

Buenos Aires
✓ Best match
63
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nightlife with your weighting.

Marrakech
50
match

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

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

Scoreboard

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

Buenos AiresMarrakech
Beaches & swimming. Buenos Aires leads by 33 points.33
Buenos AiresMarrakech
Score330
Swim season months40
Beaches 10 km00
Coast distance2 km134 km
Water distance2 km
Places to eat. Buenos Aires leads by 13 points.13
Buenos AiresMarrakech
Score6754
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,197461
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2626
Museums & heritage. Buenos Aires leads by 22 points.22
Buenos AiresMarrakech
Score6644
Museums within 10 km14822
Museums within 2 km of centre7117
Share of museums within 2 km %4877
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Buenos Aires leads by 31 points.31
Buenos AiresMarrakech
Score6837
Drinking venues within 4 km1,295282
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre777161
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6057
Nightclubs within 4 km16032
Nature & day trips. Marrakech leads by 9 points.9
Buenos AiresMarrakech
Score4352
Protected land share 50 km %9
Landscape blanket share 50 km %10
Land share of disc %67100
Park area within 2 km69 hectares47 hectares
Good for families. Buenos Aires leads by 16 points.16
Buenos AiresMarrakech
Score6953
Tourist attractions within 2 km4928
Park area within 2 km69 hectares47 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km62
Sights concentration. Buenos Aires leads by 14 points.14
Buenos AiresMarrakech
Score6046
Notable places within 2 km12555
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Marrakech leads by 4 points.4
Buenos AiresMarrakech
Score8286
Price level global45.839.8
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Marrakech leads by 6 points.6
Buenos AiresMarrakech
Score7581
Monthly daytime high14.7 °C to 28.5 °C19.1 °C to 37.6 °C
Monthly rainfall50 mm to 135 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.

J
F
M
A
M
J
J
A
S
O
N
D
Daytime high, °C
Buenos Aires
29
27
26
22
19
16
15
17
18
22
24
28
Marrakech
19
21
24
26
30
34
38
37
33
29
23
20
Sea temperature, °C
Buenos Aires
25
25
23
21
17
14
13
13
15
18
21
23
Marrakech
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Buenos Aires
135
94
123
122
85
54
50
52
58
98
87
107
Marrakech
26
27
36
28
9
3
1
3
14
19
29
25
Daylight, hours per day
Buenos Aires
14
13
12
11
10
10
10
11
12
13
14
14
Marrakech
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
11
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Buenos Aires
10
8
8
6
6
4
5
6
6
7
8
9
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. Buenos Aires: 1991-2020 normals, Aeroparque Bs. As. Aerodrome (4.9 km from centre). Marrakech: 1991-2020 normals, Marrakech (5.1 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromBuenos AiresMarrakech
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
13 h 45 m
€1,147-1238
2 stops
EZE · 28 km
3 h 20 m
€140-172
RAK · 6 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
13 h 45 m
€1,227-1245
2 stops
EZE · 28 km
3 h 10 m
€85-123
RAK · 6 km
MadridMAD
12 h 30 m
€961-982
EZE · 28 km
1 h 55 m
€64-110
RAK · 6 km
RomeFCO, CIA
13 h 45 m
€1,021-1169
1 stop
EZE · 28 km
3 h 10 m
€115-186
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
14 h 10 m
€1,193-1373
3 stops
EZE · 28 km
3 h 35 m
€144-224
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
AmsterdamAMS
14 h 10 m
no fares
EZE · 28 km
3 h 40 m
€201-233
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
BarcelonaBCN
13 h 0 m
no fares
EZE · 28 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
10 h 40 m
no fares
EZE · 28 km
7 h 35 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
15 h 5 m
€965-1220
EZE · 28 km
4 h 40 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
AtlantaATL, PDK
10 h 10 m
no fares
EZE · 28 km
8 h 55 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 2026-09 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

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 centre53 non-stop destinationsMarrakesh Menara Airport (RAK)6 km from centre118 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureBuenos AiresMarrakech
City population3,121,7071,002,697
People per km²15,3554,360
Museums within 10 km7514
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre5556
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months

Where else could you go?

Every comparison below shares a destination with this one, so you can follow Buenos Aires or Marrakech somewhere new.

Browse every destination we have measured

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. 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. 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.