VacationSelector

Catania or Marrakech?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Catania
52
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Marrakech
50
match

Wins on nature & day trips and value for money with your weighting.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

CataniaMarrakech
Beaches & swimming. Catania leads by 58 points.58
CataniaMarrakech
Score580
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km50
Coast distance1 km134 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Marrakech leads by 5 points.5
CataniaMarrakech
Score4954
Restaurants within 2 km of centre637461
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1426
Museums & heritage. Catania leads by 15 points.15
CataniaMarrakech
Score5944
Museums within 10 km3422
Museums within 2 km of centre2717
Share of museums within 2 km %7977
Unesco sites within 50 km31
Nightlife. Catania leads by 10 points.10
CataniaMarrakech
Score4737
Drinking venues within 4 km537282
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre403161
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7557
Nightclubs within 4 km1832
Nature & day trips. Marrakech leads by 21 points.21
CataniaMarrakech
Score3152
Protected land share 50 km %10
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %61100
Park area within 2 km11 hectares47 hectares
Good for families. Marrakech leads by 17 points.17
CataniaMarrakech
Score3653
Tourist attractions within 2 km2528
Park area within 2 km11 hectares47 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Marrakech leads by 7 points.7
CataniaMarrakech
Score3946
Notable places within 2 km3755
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Marrakech leads by 18 points.18
CataniaMarrakech
Score6886
Price level global64.939.8
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Marrakech leads by 4 points.4
CataniaMarrakech
Score7781
Monthly daytime high15.8 °C to 34.5 °C19.1 °C to 37.6 °C
Monthly rainfall9 mm to 83 mm1 mm to 36 mm
Dry months512
0255075100

When should you go?

The figures behind each month. Each row is shaded against that destination's own year, so the deepest cell is its best month for that measure and the palest its weakest. Shades are not comparable between the two rows.

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Daytime high, °C
Catania
16
16
19
21
26
31
34
35
30
26
21
17
Marrakech
19
21
24
26
30
34
38
37
33
29
23
20
Sea temperature, °C
Catania
15
15
15
16
18
22
25
26
25
23
20
17
Marrakech
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Catania
65
45
42
32
18
11
9
9
49
51
71
83
Marrakech
26
27
36
28
9
3
1
3
14
19
29
25
Daylight, hours per day
Catania
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Marrakech
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
11
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Catania
4
5
6
7
9
10
11
10
7
6
5
4
Marrakech
8
8
8
9
10
11
11
10
9
8
8
7

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Catania: 1991-2020 normals, Catania / Sigonella (18.9 km from centre). Marrakech: 1991-2020 normals, Marrakech (5.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCataniaMarrakech
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 55 m
€45-94
CTA · 4 km
3 h 10 m
€61-121
RAK · 6 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 20 m
€38-50
CTA · 4 km
3 h 10 m
€115-186
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 0 m
€106-144
1 stop
CTA · 4 km
3 h 20 m
€140-172
RAK · 6 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 35 m
€91-153
1 stop
CTA · 4 km
3 h 10 m
€85-123
RAK · 6 km
BolognaBLQ
1 h 40 m
€38-100
CTA · 4 km
3 h 15 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
NaplesNAP
1 h 5 m
€44-56
CTA · 4 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
2 h 40 m
€107-112
1 stop
CTA · 4 km
3 h 30 m
€122-160
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
VeniceVCE, TSF
1 h 45 m
€49-57
CTA · 4 km
3 h 25 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
9 h 0 m
no fares
CTA · 4 km
7 h 25 m
€549-632
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
2 h 55 m
€157-299
CTA · 4 km
5 h 25 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km

The busiest departure cities for these two, with a place kept for each other part of the world. Busiest means arriving passengers where an official count exists, and where none does, the number of non-stop services flown: official route statistics are published by the European reporting countries and by nobody else, so a table ranked on them alone would offer a reader in New York or Tokyo ten European cities. Flying times are estimated from the distance between airports, and every row is a city flown non-stop to both. Where the typical offer connects anyway, the stops are shown. Under each figure is the airport the flight lands at and how far that is from the centre, because the nearest airport is not always the one a route is flown to. Where both columns name the same airport it is one flight, and the difference between the two is the distance printed beside it. Typical return fares for 2026-08 to 2026-10, cached market data up to 7 days old. The figure is the middle half of the offers found, so a single price means they agreed and a range means they did not; for a typical route that middle half spans about a quarter of the median, and for the least settled routes rather more than the median itself.

Before you go

MeasureCataniaMarrakech
Official languageItalianArabic, Standard Moroccan Tamazight
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Moroccan Dirham (MAD)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzCE50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1
Emergency number112Police 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15
Elevation7 m465 m
Main airportCatania-Fontanarossa Airport (CTA)4 km from centre95 non-stop destinationsMarrakesh Menara Airport (RAK)6 km from centre118 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureCataniaMarrakech
City population311,5841,002,697
People per km²1,7044,360
Museums within 10 km2514
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km31
Distinct cuisines in the centre3056
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months

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Sources

© OpenStreetMap contributors, data available under the Open Database Licence. Place counts include data from Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA Permissive 2.0), assembled from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and other providers. Notable-place counts from Wikidata (CC0), weighted by Wikipedia language editions. Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

Scores follow rubric v2; snapshot generated 2026-08-31. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.