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The Hassan II Mosque and its minaret, Casablanca
CasablancaThe Hassan II Mosque and its minaret
The old Bath House in the Government Gardens, Rotorua
RotoruaThe old Bath House in the Government Gardens

Photos: Casablanca by Samir Bakkah, Pexels License; Rotorua by W. Bulach, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Casablanca or Rotorua?

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
  • nightlife
  • shopping

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

Choose Rotorua for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • wellness
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Rotorua’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, Rotorua 33: Casablanca leads by 17 points.
Food & drink. Casablanca 60, Rotorua 33: Casablanca leads by 27 points.
Culture & sights. Casablanca 52, Rotorua 38: Casablanca leads by 14 points.
Nightlife. Casablanca 44, Rotorua 14: Casablanca leads by 30 points.
Nature & outdoors. Casablanca 33, Rotorua 86: Rotorua leads by 53 points.
Day trips. Casablanca 55, Rotorua 45: Casablanca leads by 10 points.
Good for families. Casablanca 38, Rotorua 68: Rotorua leads by 30 points.
Getting around. Casablanca 42, Rotorua 30: Casablanca leads by 12 points.
Shopping & style. Casablanca 50, Rotorua 22: Casablanca leads by 28 points.
Affordability. Casablanca 68, Rotorua 36: Casablanca leads by 32 points.
Live music & performing arts. Casablanca 38, Rotorua 30: Casablanca leads by 8 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Casablanca 52, Rotorua 86: Rotorua leads by 34 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Casablanca and Rotorua.

Your match

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

Casablanca
Best match
49match

Wins on prices and nightlife with your weighting.

Rotorua
43match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and wellness 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

Rotorua in July

11 °Cdaytime high
6 °Cnight-time low
113 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
15 °Csea
10 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Rotorua has no weather station within reach, so its figures come from a gridded climate model rather than a measured record, and read a broad area rather than the city itself.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Casablanca: 1991-2020 normals, Casablanca (5.6 km from centre). Rotorua: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureCasablancaRotorua
Official languageArabic, Standard Moroccan TamazightEnglish, New Zealand Sign Language, Māori
CurrencyMoroccan Dirham (MAD)New Zealand Dollar (NZD)
SocketsCE50 HzI230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1UTC+12, UTC+13 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15111
Elevation115 m280 m
Main airportMohammed V International Airport (CMN)26 km from centre112 non-stop destinationsRotorua Regional Airport (ROT)7 km from centre3 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureCasablancaRotorua
City population3,215,93558,500
People per km²8,37522
Museums within 10 km31
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
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. Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. 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.