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The Hassan II Mosque and its minaret, Casablanca
CasablancaThe Hassan II Mosque and its minaret
Playa Tamarindo, Tamarindo
TamarindoPlaya Tamarindo

Photos: Casablanca by Samir Bakkah, Pexels License; Tamarindo by Jarle Naustvik, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Casablanca or Tamarindo?

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
  • shopping
  • prices

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

Choose Tamarindo for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • beaches
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Tamarindo’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, Tamarindo 85: Tamarindo leads by 35 points.
Food & drink. Casablanca 60, Tamarindo 38: Casablanca leads by 22 points.
Culture & sights. Casablanca 52, Tamarindo 5: Casablanca leads by 47 points.
Nightlife. Casablanca 44, Tamarindo 45: Tamarindo leads by 1 points.
Nature & outdoors. Casablanca 33, Tamarindo 76: Tamarindo leads by 43 points.
Day trips. Casablanca 55, Tamarindo 28: Casablanca leads by 27 points.
Good for families. Casablanca 38, Tamarindo 55: Tamarindo leads by 17 points.
Getting around. Casablanca 42, Tamarindo 32: Casablanca leads by 10 points.
Shopping & style. Casablanca 50, Tamarindo 18: Casablanca leads by 32 points.
Affordability. Casablanca 68, Tamarindo 36: Casablanca leads by 32 points.
Live music & performing arts. Casablanca 38, Tamarindo 10: Casablanca leads by 28 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Casablanca 52, Tamarindo 45: Casablanca leads by 7 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Casablanca and Tamarindo.

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 shopping with your weighting.

Tamarindo
39match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and beaches 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

Tamarindo in July

33 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
129 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
29 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Tamarindo's temperatures are measured 54 km from the centre, at Liberia.

Tamarindo 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). Tamarindo: 1991-2020 normals, Liberia (53.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCasablancaTamarindo
Official languageArabic, Standard Moroccan TamazightSpanish
CurrencyMoroccan Dirham (MAD)Costa Rican Colon (CRC)
SocketsCE50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1UTC-6
Emergency numberPolice 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15911
Elevation115 m27 m
Main airportMohammed V International Airport (CMN)26 km from centre112 non-stop destinationsDaniel Oduber Quirós International Airport (LIR)43 km from centre30 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureCasablancaTamarindo
City population3,215,9357,132
People per km²8,37557
Museums within 10 km30
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months12 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. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.