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The Esplanade boardwalk and its palms, Cairns
CairnsThe Esplanade boardwalk and its palms
The Hassan II Mosque and its minaret, Casablanca
CasablancaThe Hassan II Mosque and its minaret

Photos: Cairns by Donaldytong, Public domain; Casablanca by Samir Bakkah, Pexels License.

Cairns or Casablanca?

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 Cairns for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • families
  • beaches

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

Choose Casablanca for

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Casablanca’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. Cairns 62, Casablanca 50: Cairns leads by 12 points.
Food & drink. Cairns 40, Casablanca 60: Casablanca leads by 20 points.
Culture & sights. Cairns 22, Casablanca 52: Casablanca leads by 30 points.
Nightlife. Cairns 42, Casablanca 44: Casablanca leads by 2 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cairns 95, Casablanca 33: Cairns leads by 62 points.
Day trips. Cairns 45, Casablanca 55: Casablanca leads by 10 points.
Good for families. Cairns 66, Casablanca 38: Cairns leads by 28 points.
Getting around. Cairns 45, Casablanca 42: Cairns leads by 3 points.
Shopping & style. Cairns 28, Casablanca 50: Casablanca leads by 22 points.
Affordability. Cairns 35, Casablanca 68: Casablanca leads by 33 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cairns 22, Casablanca 38: Casablanca leads by 16 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cairns 45, Casablanca 52: Casablanca leads by 7 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cairns and Casablanca.

Your match

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

Cairns
46match

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

Casablanca
Best match
49match

Wins on prices and culture and sights with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Cairns in July

24 °Cdaytime high
20 °Cnight-time low
30 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
24 °Csea
11 hdaylight a day

Casablanca in July

26 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
22 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Cairns's temperatures are measured 27 km from the centre, at Green Island Aws.

Cairns has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Cairns: 1993-2010 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Green Island Aws (27 km from centre). Casablanca: 1991-2020 normals, Casablanca (5.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCairnsCasablanca
Official languageEnglishArabic, Standard Moroccan Tamazight
CurrencyAustralian Dollar (AUD)Moroccan Dirham (MAD)
SocketsI230 V, 50 HzCE50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+10UTC+1
Emergency number000Police 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15
Elevation7 m115 m
Main airportCairns International Airport (CNS)6 km from centre32 non-stop destinationsMohammed V International Airport (CMN)26 km from centre112 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureCairnsCasablanca
City population146,7783,215,935
People per km²3018,375
Museums within 10 km13
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months5 months

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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). 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.

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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.