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The Hassan II Mosque and its minaret, Casablanca
CasablancaThe Hassan II Mosque and its minaret
York Minster from the city walls, York
YorkYork Minster from the city walls

Photos: Casablanca by Samir Bakkah, Pexels License; York by PAUL FARMER, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Casablanca or York?

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
  • food and drink

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

Choose York for

  • getting around
  • nature and the outdoors
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on York’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, York 14: Casablanca leads by 36 points.
Food & drink. Casablanca 60, York 42: Casablanca leads by 18 points.
Culture & sights. Casablanca 52, York 70: York leads by 18 points.
Nightlife. Casablanca 44, York 36: Casablanca leads by 8 points.
Nature & outdoors. Casablanca 33, York 62: York leads by 29 points.
Day trips. Casablanca 55, York 80: York leads by 25 points.
Good for families. Casablanca 38, York 60: York leads by 22 points.
Getting around. Casablanca 42, York 72: York leads by 30 points.
Shopping & style. Casablanca 50, York 46: Casablanca leads by 4 points.
Affordability. Casablanca 68, York 38: Casablanca leads by 30 points.
Live music & performing arts. Casablanca and York are level on 38.
Wellness & relaxation. Casablanca 52, York 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 York.

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
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Wins on beaches and prices with your weighting.

York
49match

Wins on getting around and nature and the outdoors 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

York in July

21 °Cdaytime high
12 °Cnight-time low
62 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
No seasea
17 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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CasablancaYork

Where the figures come from

York 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.

York's sunshine is measured 48 km from the centre, at Leeming.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Casablanca: 1991-2020 normals, Casablanca (5.6 km from centre). York: 1991-2020 normals, Linton-On-Ouse (14.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCasablancaYork
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 m25 m
Main airportMohammed V International Airport (CMN)26 km from centre112 non-stop destinationsLeeds Bradford Airport (LBA)39 km from centre69 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureCasablancaYork
City population3,215,935208,400
People per km²8,375766
Museums within 10 km324
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
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.