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Calgary or Marrakech?

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

Your match

Calgary
38
match

Wins on places to eat and nightlife with your weighting.

Marrakech
✓ Best match
50
match

Wins on museums & heritage and value for money 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.

CalgaryMarrakech
Beaches & swimming. Calgary and Marrakech are level on 0.
CalgaryMarrakech
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km40
Coast distance649 km134 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Calgary leads by 12 points.12
CalgaryMarrakech
Score6654
Restaurants within 2 km of centre749461
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3626
Museums & heritage. Marrakech leads by 35 points.35
CalgaryMarrakech
Score944
Museums within 10 km822
Museums within 2 km of centre317
Share of museums within 2 km %3877
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Calgary leads by 7 points.7
CalgaryMarrakech
Score4437
Drinking venues within 4 km465282
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre343161
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7457
Nightclubs within 4 km1932
Nature & day trips. Marrakech leads by 16 points.16
CalgaryMarrakech
Score3652
Protected land share 50 km %4
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km142 hectares47 hectares
Good for families. Marrakech leads by 12 points.12
CalgaryMarrakech
Score4153
Tourist attractions within 2 km328
Park area within 2 km142 hectares47 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km52
Sights concentration. Marrakech leads by 7 points.7
CalgaryMarrakech
Score3946
Notable places within 2 km3755
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Marrakech leads by 32 points.32
CalgaryMarrakech
Score5486
Price level global8439.8
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Marrakech leads by 24 points.24
CalgaryMarrakech
Score5781
Monthly daytime high-0.7 °C to 24.8 °C19.1 °C to 37.6 °C
Monthly rainfall9 mm to 106 mm1 mm to 36 mm
Dry months812
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
Calgary
0
-1
4
11
16
20
25
23
19
12
4
0
Marrakech
19
21
24
26
30
34
38
37
33
29
23
20
Rainfall, mm
Calgary
9
13
19
28
58
106
44
47
33
21
17
17
Marrakech
26
27
36
28
9
3
1
3
14
19
29
25
Daylight, hours per day
Calgary
9
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Marrakech
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
11
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Calgary
No sunshine record
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. Calgary: 1991-2020 normals, Calgary Int'l CS (8.2 km from centre). Marrakech: 1991-2020 normals, Marrakech (5.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCalgaryMarrakech
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
8 h 55 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
3 h 20 m
€140-172
RAK · 6 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
9 h 20 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
3 h 10 m
€85-123
RAK · 6 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
4 h 10 m
€170-221
YYC · 9 km
7 h 25 m
€549-632
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
4 h 30 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
7 h 35 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
BarcelonaBCN
10 h 5 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
9 h 30 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
3 h 35 m
€144-224
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
DublinDUB
8 h 25 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
3 h 30 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
AmsterdamAMS
9 h 5 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
3 h 40 m
€201-233
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
EdinburghEDI
8 h 20 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
3 h 55 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
RomeFCO, CIA
10 h 35 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
3 h 10 m
€115-186
1 stop
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

MeasureCalgaryMarrakech
Official languageFrench, EnglishArabic, Standard Moroccan Tamazight
CurrencyCanadian Dollar (CAD)Moroccan Dirham (MAD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCE50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC+1
Emergency number911Police 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15
Elevation1,045 m465 m
Main airportCalgary International Airport (YYC)9 km from centre106 non-stop destinationsMarrakesh Menara Airport (RAK)6 km from centre118 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureCalgaryMarrakech
City population1,306,7841,002,697
People per km²1,5834,360
Museums within 10 km1314
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre6756

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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). 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.