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The Hassan II Mosque and its minaret, Casablanca
CasablancaThe Hassan II Mosque and its minaret
The Scott Monument and Princes Street Gardens, Edinburgh
EdinburghThe Scott Monument and Princes Street Gardens

Photos: Casablanca by Samir Bakkah, Pexels License; Edinburgh by Carlos Delgado, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Casablanca or Edinburgh?

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

  • prices
  • beaches
  • wellness

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

Choose Edinburgh for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • live music and the arts
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Edinburgh’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, Edinburgh 22: Casablanca leads by 28 points.
Food & drink. Casablanca 60, Edinburgh 53: Casablanca leads by 7 points.
Culture & sights. Casablanca 52, Edinburgh 75: Edinburgh leads by 23 points.
Nightlife. Casablanca 44, Edinburgh 50: Edinburgh leads by 6 points.
Nature & outdoors. Casablanca 33, Edinburgh 75: Edinburgh leads by 42 points.
Day trips. Casablanca 55, Edinburgh 75: Edinburgh leads by 20 points.
Good for families. Casablanca 38, Edinburgh 62: Edinburgh leads by 24 points.
Getting around. Casablanca 42, Edinburgh 74: Edinburgh leads by 32 points.
Shopping & style. Casablanca and Edinburgh are level on 50.
Affordability. Casablanca 68, Edinburgh 30: Casablanca leads by 38 points.
Live music & performing arts. Casablanca 38, Edinburgh 72: Edinburgh leads by 34 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Casablanca 52, Edinburgh 34: Casablanca leads by 18 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Casablanca and Edinburgh.

Your match

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

Casablanca
49match

Wins on prices and beaches with your weighting.

Edinburgh
Best match
56match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and live music and the arts 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

Edinburgh in July

19 °Cdaytime high
11 °Cnight-time low
66 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
14 °Csea
17 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Edinburgh 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.

Edinburgh's sunshine is measured 52 km from the centre, at Leuchars.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Casablanca: 1991-2020 normals, Casablanca (5.6 km from centre). Edinburgh: 1991-2020 normals, Edinburgh Airport (10 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCasablancaEdinburgh
Official languageArabic, Standard Moroccan TamazightEnglish
CurrencyMoroccan Dirham (MAD)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsCE50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1UTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15112 or 999
Elevation115 m47 m
Main airportMohammed V International Airport (CMN)26 km from centre112 non-stop destinationsEdinburgh Airport (EDI)11 km from centre163 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureCasablancaEdinburgh
City population3,215,935488,050
People per km²8,3751,884
Museums within 10 km332
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 monthsNone

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