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The Hassan II Mosque and its minaret, Casablanca
CasablancaThe Hassan II Mosque and its minaret
The adobe New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe
Santa FeThe adobe New Mexico Museum of Art

Photos: Casablanca by Samir Bakkah, Pexels License; Santa Fe by dconvertini, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Casablanca or Santa Fe?

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

  • beaches
  • prices
  • nightlife

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

Choose Santa Fe for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • live music and the arts
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Santa Fe’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 Fe 5: Casablanca leads by 45 points.
Food & drink. Casablanca 60, Santa Fe 62: Santa Fe leads by 2 points.
Culture & sights. Casablanca 52, Santa Fe 66: Santa Fe leads by 14 points.
Nightlife. Casablanca 44, Santa Fe 22: Casablanca leads by 22 points.
Nature & outdoors. Casablanca 33, Santa Fe 80: Santa Fe leads by 47 points.
Day trips. Casablanca 55, Santa Fe 70: Santa Fe leads by 15 points.
Good for families. Casablanca 38, Santa Fe 45: Santa Fe leads by 7 points.
Getting around. Casablanca 42, Santa Fe 40: Casablanca leads by 2 points.
Shopping & style. Casablanca 50, Santa Fe 62: Santa Fe leads by 12 points.
Affordability. Casablanca 68, Santa Fe 30: Casablanca leads by 38 points.
Live music & performing arts. Casablanca 38, Santa Fe 55: Santa Fe leads by 17 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Casablanca 52, Santa Fe 55: Santa Fe leads by 3 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Casablanca and Santa Fe.

Your match

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

Too close to call, level with your weighting

Casablanca
49match

Wins on beaches and prices with your weighting.

Santa Fe
49match

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

Santa Fe in July

31 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
60 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
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

Santa Fe's station stands 199 m below the city centre, so the centre is likely a little cooler than the figures say.

Santa Fe 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.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Casablanca: 1991-2020 normals, Casablanca (5.6 km from centre). Santa Fe: 1991-2020 normals, Santa Fe / Cieneguilla (12.4 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCasablancaSanta Fe
Official languageArabic, Standard Moroccan Tamazight-
CurrencyMoroccan Dirham (MAD)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCE50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1UTC-7, UTC-6 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15911
Elevation115 m2,134 m
Main airportMohammed V International Airport (CMN)26 km from centre112 non-stop destinationsSanta Fe Municipal Airport (SAF)12 km from centre5 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureCasablancaSanta Fe
City population3,215,93587,505
People per km²8,375645
Museums within 10 km310
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.