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The Hassan II Mosque and its minaret, Casablanca
CasablancaThe Hassan II Mosque and its minaret
The County Courthouse and its garden, Santa Barbara
Santa BarbaraThe County Courthouse and its garden

Photos: Casablanca by Samir Bakkah, Pexels License; Santa Barbara by Warren LeMay, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Casablanca or Santa Barbara?

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 Santa Barbara for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • families
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Santa Barbara’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, Santa Barbara 60: Santa Barbara leads by 10 points.
Food & drink. Casablanca 60, Santa Barbara 62: Santa Barbara leads by 2 points.
Culture & sights. Casablanca 52, Santa Barbara 48: Casablanca leads by 4 points.
Nightlife. Casablanca 44, Santa Barbara 34: Casablanca leads by 10 points.
Nature & outdoors. Casablanca 33, Santa Barbara 80: Santa Barbara leads by 47 points.
Day trips. Casablanca and Santa Barbara are level on 55.
Good for families. Casablanca 38, Santa Barbara 64: Santa Barbara leads by 26 points.
Getting around. Casablanca 42, Santa Barbara 46: Santa Barbara leads by 4 points.
Shopping & style. Casablanca 50, Santa Barbara 45: Casablanca leads by 5 points.
Affordability. Casablanca 68, Santa Barbara 15: Casablanca leads by 53 points.
Live music & performing arts. Casablanca 38, Santa Barbara 50: Santa Barbara leads by 12 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Casablanca 52, Santa Barbara 50: Casablanca leads by 2 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Casablanca and Santa Barbara.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Casablanca
49match

Wins on prices and nightlife with your weighting.

Santa Barbara
51match

Wins on nature and the outdoors 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

Santa Barbara in July

24 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
18 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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CasablancaSanta Barbara

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Casablanca: 1991-2020 normals, Casablanca (5.6 km from centre). Santa Barbara: 1991-2020 normals, Santa Barbara / La Patera (11.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCasablancaSanta Barbara
Official languageArabic, Standard Moroccan Tamazight-
CurrencyMoroccan Dirham (MAD)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCE50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1UTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15911
Elevation115 m15 m
Main airportMohammed V International Airport (CMN)26 km from centre112 non-stop destinationsSanta Barbara Municipal Airport (SBA)12 km from centre13 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureCasablancaSanta Barbara
City population3,215,93588,665
People per km²8,375816
Museums within 10 km310
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 monthsNone

Where else could you go?

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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.