VacationSelector

Chicago or Marrakech?

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

Your match

Chicago
✓ Best match
56
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and places to eat with your weighting.

Marrakech
50
match

Wins on value for money and year-round weather 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.

ChicagoMarrakech
Beaches & swimming. Chicago leads by 53 points.53
ChicagoMarrakech
Score530
Swim season months10
Beaches 10 km120
Coast distance10,000 km134 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Chicago leads by 27 points.27
ChicagoMarrakech
Score8154
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2,147461
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3726
Museums & heritage. Chicago leads by 2 points.2
ChicagoMarrakech
Score4644
Museums within 10 km4522
Museums within 2 km of centre2017
Share of museums within 2 km %4477
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Chicago leads by 25 points.25
ChicagoMarrakech
Score6237
Drinking venues within 4 km1,123282
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre728161
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6557
Nightclubs within 4 km5132
Nature & day trips. Marrakech leads by 14 points.14
ChicagoMarrakech
Score3852
Protected land share 50 km %6
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km118 hectares47 hectares
Good for families. Chicago leads by 2 points.2
ChicagoMarrakech
Score5553
Tourist attractions within 2 km1828
Park area within 2 km118 hectares47 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km22
Sights concentration. Chicago leads by 24 points.24
ChicagoMarrakech
Score7046
Notable places within 2 km21755
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Marrakech leads by 43 points.43
ChicagoMarrakech
Score4386
Price level global10039.8
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Marrakech leads by 24 points.24
ChicagoMarrakech
Score5781
Monthly daytime high0.2 °C to 29.4 °C19.1 °C to 37.6 °C
Monthly rainfall54 mm to 121 mm1 mm to 36 mm
Dry months012
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
Chicago
0
3
9
15
22
27
29
28
25
17
10
3
Marrakech
19
21
24
26
30
34
38
37
33
29
23
20
Sea temperature, °C
Chicago
3
2
2
4
7
14
21
23
20
15
9
6
Marrakech
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Chicago
58
54
68
105
121
115
102
104
85
98
69
59
Marrakech
26
27
36
28
9
3
1
3
14
19
29
25
Daylight, hours per day
Chicago
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Marrakech
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
11
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Chicago
No sunshine record
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. Chicago: 1991-2020 normals, Chicago Midway Airport (14.5 km from centre). Marrakech: 1991-2020 normals, Marrakech (5.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromChicagoMarrakech
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
8 h 30 m
no fares
ORD · 25 km
3 h 10 m
€85-123
RAK · 6 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
8 h 10 m
no fares
ORD · 25 km
3 h 20 m
€140-172
RAK · 6 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
2 h 5 m
€201-231
ORD · 25 km
7 h 35 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
8 h 30 m
no fares
ORD · 25 km
3 h 30 m
€122-160
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
AtlantaATL, PDK
1 h 50 m
€141-200
ORD · 25 km
8 h 55 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
9 h 10 m
no fares
ORD · 25 km
3 h 10 m
€61-121
RAK · 6 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
2 h 5 m
no fares
ORD · 25 km
7 h 25 m
€549-632
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
BarcelonaBCN
9 h 0 m
no fares
ORD · 25 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
MadridMAD
8 h 35 m
no fares
ORD · 25 km
1 h 55 m
€64-110
RAK · 6 km
LisbonLIS
8 h 15 m
no fares
ORD · 25 km
1 h 35 m
€64-110
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

MeasureChicagoMarrakech
Official languageArabic, Standard Moroccan Tamazight
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Moroccan Dirham (MAD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCE50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6, UTC-5 in summerUTC+1
Emergency number911Police 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15
Elevation179 m465 m
Main airportChicago O'Hare International Airport (ORD)25 km from centre272 non-stop destinationsMarrakesh Menara Airport (RAK)6 km from centre118 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureChicagoMarrakech
City population2,746,3881,002,697
People per km²4,5294,360
Museums within 10 km4314
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre8756
Swim season, months above 21 °C1 month

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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). Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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.

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.