VacationSelector

Cannes or Marrakech?

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

Your match

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Cannes
49
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and sights concentration with your weighting.

Marrakech
50
match

Wins on good for families 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.

CannesMarrakech
Beaches & swimming. Cannes leads by 73 points.73
CannesMarrakech
Score730
Swim season months40
Beaches 10 km680
Coast distance1 km134 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Marrakech leads by 4 points.4
CannesMarrakech
Score5054
Restaurants within 2 km of centre473461
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1926
Museums & heritage. Marrakech leads by 8 points.8
CannesMarrakech
Score3644
Museums within 10 km3122
Museums within 2 km of centre517
Share of museums within 2 km %1677
Unesco sites within 50 km21
Nightlife. Marrakech leads by 9 points.9
CannesMarrakech
Score2837
Drinking venues within 4 km188282
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre164161
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8757
Nightclubs within 4 km1932
Nature & day trips. Marrakech leads by 19 points.19
CannesMarrakech
Score3352
Protected land share 50 km %17
Landscape blanket share 50 km %160
Land share of disc %53100
Park area within 2 km13 hectares47 hectares
Good for families. Marrakech leads by 28 points.28
CannesMarrakech
Score2553
Tourist attractions within 2 km728
Park area within 2 km13 hectares47 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km32
Sights concentration. Cannes leads by 10 points.10
CannesMarrakech
Score5646
Notable places within 2 km9555
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Marrakech leads by 24 points.24
CannesMarrakech
Score6286
Price level global73.739.8
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Marrakech leads by 7 points.7
CannesMarrakech
Score7481
Monthly daytime high13.3 °C to 27.9 °C19.1 °C to 37.6 °C
Monthly rainfall13 mm to 138 mm1 mm to 36 mm
Dry months312
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
Cannes
13
14
15
17
21
25
28
28
25
21
17
14
Marrakech
19
21
24
26
30
34
38
37
33
29
23
20
Sea temperature, °C
Cannes
14
13
14
15
18
21
24
25
23
20
18
16
Marrakech
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Cannes
74
53
51
69
42
34
13
18
84
124
138
91
Marrakech
26
27
36
28
9
3
1
3
14
19
29
25
Daylight, hours per day
Cannes
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Marrakech
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
11
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Cannes
5
6
7
7
9
10
11
11
8
6
5
5
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. Cannes: 1991-2020 normals, Nice (18 km from centre). Marrakech: 1991-2020 normals, Marrakech (5.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCannesMarrakech
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 30 m
€78-111
NCE · 20 km
3 h 10 m
€85-123
RAK · 6 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 55 m
€76-223
NCE · 20 km
3 h 20 m
€140-172
RAK · 6 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
1 h 40 m
€155-228
1 stop
NCE · 20 km
3 h 30 m
€122-160
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
NantesNTE
1 h 35 m
€129-163
NCE · 20 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 15 m
€83-135
NCE · 20 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 10 m
€69-133
NCE · 20 km
3 h 10 m
€115-186
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
BordeauxBOD
1 h 25 m
no fares
NCE · 20 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 50 m
€170-248
NCE · 20 km
3 h 40 m
€201-233
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
LilleLIL
1 h 40 m
€162-220
NCE · 20 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 55 m
no fares
NCE · 20 km
7 h 25 m
€549-632
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 2026-08 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

MeasureCannesMarrakech
Official languageFrenchArabic, Standard Moroccan Tamazight
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Moroccan Dirham (MAD)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCE50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1
Emergency number112Police 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15
Elevation0 m465 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)20 km from centre129 non-stop destinationsMarrakesh Menara Airport (RAK)6 km from centre118 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureCannesMarrakech
City population74,3501,002,697
People per km²3,7934,360
Museums within 10 km1614
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Distinct cuisines in the centre3856
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months

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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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.