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The Hassan II Mosque and its minaret, Casablanca
CasablancaThe Hassan II Mosque and its minaret
Clearwater Beach in evening light, with its hotels and pier, Clearwater
ClearwaterClearwater Beach in evening light, with its hotels and pier

Photos: Casablanca by Samir Bakkah, Pexels License; Clearwater by ajay_suresh, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Casablanca or Clearwater?

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 Casablanca for

  • culture and sights
  • prices
  • shopping

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

Choose Clearwater for

  • beaches
  • families
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Clearwater’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. Casablanca 50, Clearwater 90: Clearwater leads by 40 points.
Food & drink. Casablanca 60, Clearwater 38: Casablanca leads by 22 points.
Culture & sights. Casablanca 52, Clearwater 18: Casablanca leads by 34 points.
Nightlife. Casablanca 44, Clearwater 34: Casablanca leads by 10 points.
Nature & outdoors. Casablanca 33, Clearwater 55: Clearwater leads by 22 points.
Day trips. Casablanca 55, Clearwater 58: Clearwater leads by 3 points.
Good for families. Casablanca 38, Clearwater 78: Clearwater leads by 40 points.
Getting around. Casablanca 42, Clearwater 28: Casablanca leads by 14 points.
Shopping & style. Casablanca 50, Clearwater 27: Casablanca leads by 23 points.
Affordability. Casablanca 68, Clearwater 35: Casablanca leads by 33 points.
Live music & performing arts. Casablanca 38, Clearwater 36: Casablanca leads by 2 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Casablanca 52, Clearwater 40: Casablanca leads by 12 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Casablanca and Clearwater.

Your match

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

Casablanca
Best match
49match

Wins on culture and sights and prices with your weighting.

Clearwater
45match

Wins on beaches and families with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

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

Clearwater in July

32 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
188 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
30 °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

Clearwater 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.

Clearwater's sunshine is measured 26 km from the centre, at Tampa International Airport.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Casablanca: 1991-2020 normals, Casablanca (5.6 km from centre). Clearwater: 2006-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Saint Petersburg / High Point (12.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCasablancaClearwater
Official languageArabic, Standard Moroccan Tamazight-
CurrencyMoroccan Dirham (MAD)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCE50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15911
Elevation115 m9 m
Main airportMohammed V International Airport (CMN)26 km from centre112 non-stop destinationsSt. Petersburg Clearwater International Airport (PIE)13 km from centre60 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureCasablancaClearwater
City population3,215,935117,292
People per km²8,3751,154
Museums within 10 km34
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months8 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). 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.