VacationSelector

Cordoba or Marrakech?

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

Your match

Cordoba
47
match

Wins on good for families and nightlife with your weighting.

Marrakech
✓ Best match
50
match

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

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Scoreboard

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

CordobaMarrakech
Beaches & swimming. Cordoba and Marrakech are level on 0.
CordobaMarrakech
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km00
Coast distance134 km134 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Marrakech leads by 7 points.7
CordobaMarrakech
Score4754
Restaurants within 2 km of centre616461
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1326
Museums & heritage. Cordoba leads by 3 points.3
CordobaMarrakech
Score4744
Museums within 10 km2022
Museums within 2 km of centre1917
Share of museums within 2 km %9577
Unesco sites within 50 km21
Nightlife. Cordoba leads by 6 points.6
CordobaMarrakech
Score4337
Drinking venues within 4 km444282
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre353161
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8057
Nightclubs within 4 km1432
Nature & day trips. Marrakech leads by 15 points.15
CordobaMarrakech
Score3752
Protected land share 50 km %6
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km108 hectares47 hectares
Good for families. Cordoba leads by 10 points.10
CordobaMarrakech
Score6353
Tourist attractions within 2 km5928
Park area within 2 km108 hectares47 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km02
Sights concentration. Marrakech leads by 2 points.2
CordobaMarrakech
Score4446
Notable places within 2 km4855
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Marrakech leads by 15 points.15
CordobaMarrakech
Score7186
Price level global60.839.8
Daily budget€122
Year-round weather. Marrakech leads by 9 points.9
CordobaMarrakech
Score7281
Monthly daytime high15.1 °C to 37.1 °C19.1 °C to 37.6 °C
Monthly rainfall1 mm to 91 mm1 mm to 36 mm
Dry months412
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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F
M
A
M
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J
A
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N
D
Daytime high, °C
Cordoba
15
17
21
24
28
33
37
37
32
26
19
16
Marrakech
19
21
24
26
30
34
38
37
33
29
23
20
Rainfall, mm
Cordoba
57
53
63
54
43
11
1
7
37
79
79
91
Marrakech
26
27
36
28
9
3
1
3
14
19
29
25
Daylight, hours per day
Cordoba
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
Cordoba
6
6
7
8
10
11
12
11
8
7
6
5
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. Cordoba: 1991-2020 normals, Cordoba / Aeropuerto (7.6 km from centre). Marrakech: 1991-2020 normals, Marrakech (5.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCordobaMarrakech
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 35 m
€111-178
1 stop
SVQ · 111 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 35 m
no fares
SVQ · 111 km
3 h 20 m
€140-172
RAK · 6 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 25 m
€99-133
1 stop
SVQ · 111 km
3 h 10 m
€85-123
RAK · 6 km
MadridMAD
1 h 10 m
no fares
SVQ · 111 km
1 h 55 m
€64-110
RAK · 6 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
2 h 40 m
no fares
SVQ · 111 km
3 h 30 m
€122-160
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
TenerifeTFS, TFN
2 h 20 m
€126-171
SVQ · 111 km
1 h 45 m
€102-113
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
PalmaPMI
1 h 35 m
no fares
SVQ · 111 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
BilbaoBIO
1 h 30 m
€112-119
SVQ · 111 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 25 m
€89-105
SVQ · 111 km
3 h 10 m
€61-121
RAK · 6 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 25 m
no fares
AGP · 137 km
7 h 25 m
€549-632
1 stop
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

MeasureCordobaMarrakech
Official languageSpanishArabic, 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
Elevation120 m465 m
Main airportCórdoba Airport (ODB)8 km from centre3 non-stop destinationsMarrakesh Menara Airport (RAK)6 km from centre118 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureCordobaMarrakech
City population323,2621,002,697
People per km²2584,360
Museums within 10 km1614
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Distinct cuisines in the centre2756

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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.