VacationSelector

Cologne or Marrakech?

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

Your match

Cologne
✓ Best match
57
match

Wins on nightlife and nature & day trips 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.

CologneMarrakech
Beaches & swimming. Cologne and Marrakech are level on 0.
CologneMarrakech
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km400
Coast distance256 km134 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Cologne leads by 18 points.18
CologneMarrakech
Score7254
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,142461
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3526
Museums & heritage. Cologne leads by 16 points.16
CologneMarrakech
Score6044
Museums within 10 km4722
Museums within 2 km of centre2717
Share of museums within 2 km %5777
Unesco sites within 50 km31
Nightlife. Cologne leads by 27 points.27
CologneMarrakech
Score6437
Drinking venues within 4 km1,107282
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre727161
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6657
Nightclubs within 4 km9032
Nature & day trips. Cologne leads by 19 points.19
CologneMarrakech
Score7152
Protected land share 50 km %53
Landscape blanket share 50 km %520
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km118 hectares47 hectares
Good for families. Cologne leads by 19 points.19
CologneMarrakech
Score7253
Tourist attractions within 2 km4328
Park area within 2 km118 hectares47 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km62
Sights concentration. Cologne leads by 7 points.7
CologneMarrakech
Score5346
Notable places within 2 km8155
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Marrakech leads by 26 points.26
CologneMarrakech
Score6086
Price level global75.939.8
Daily budget€163
Year-round weather. Marrakech leads by 21 points.21
CologneMarrakech
Score6081
Monthly daytime high6.3 °C to 25 °C19.1 °C to 37.6 °C
Monthly rainfall48 mm to 81 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
Cologne
6
7
12
16
20
23
25
25
21
15
10
7
Marrakech
19
21
24
26
30
34
38
37
33
29
23
20
Rainfall, mm
Cologne
64
56
53
48
60
76
81
81
67
65
68
72
Marrakech
26
27
36
28
9
3
1
3
14
19
29
25
Daylight, hours per day
Cologne
9
10
12
14
16
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Marrakech
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
11
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Cologne
2
2
4
6
7
7
7
6
5
3
2
1
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. Cologne: 1991-2020 normals, Köln-Stammheim (5.4 km from centre). Marrakech: 1991-2020 normals, Marrakech (5.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCologneMarrakech
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 20 m
no fares
CGN · 15 km
3 h 20 m
€140-172
RAK · 6 km
PalmaPMI
2 h 10 m
no fares
CGN · 15 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 0 m
€145-156
CGN · 15 km
4 h 40 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 10 m
no fares
DUS · 41 km
3 h 10 m
€85-123
RAK · 6 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 20 m
€81-121
CGN · 15 km
3 h 10 m
€61-121
RAK · 6 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 0 m
€77-159
CGN · 15 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
MunichMUC
1 h 10 m
no fares
CGN · 15 km
3 h 35 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 30 m
no fares
CGN · 15 km
3 h 35 m
€124-167
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
BerlinBER
1 h 15 m
€136-255
1 stop
CGN · 15 km
4 h 5 m
€180-258
2 stops
RAK · 6 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 35 m
€126-182
CGN · 15 km
3 h 55 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 2026-09 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

MeasureCologneMarrakech
Official languageGermanArabic, Standard Moroccan Tamazight
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Moroccan Dirham (MAD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCE50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1
Emergency number112Police 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15
Elevation59 m465 m
Main airportCologne Bonn Airport (CGN)15 km from centre113 non-stop destinationsMarrakesh Menara Airport (RAK)6 km from centre118 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureCologneMarrakech
City population1,024,6211,002,697
People per km²2,5304,360
Museums within 10 km4014
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km31
Distinct cuisines in the centre8456

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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. 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.