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The wide beach and its hotels in morning light, Daytona Beach
Daytona BeachThe wide beach and its hotels in morning light
The Koutoubia Mosque from its gardens, Marrakech
MarrakechThe Koutoubia Mosque from its gardens

Photos: Daytona Beach by Han Zheng, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Marrakech by Jorge Franganillo, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Daytona Beach or Marrakech?

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 Daytona Beach for

  • beaches
  • day trips
  • families

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

Choose Marrakech for

  • culture and sights
  • shopping
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Marrakech’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. Daytona Beach 80, Marrakech 7: Daytona Beach leads by 73 points.
Food & drink. Daytona Beach 36, Marrakech 64: Marrakech leads by 28 points.
Culture & sights. Daytona Beach 30, Marrakech 76: Marrakech leads by 46 points.
Nightlife. Daytona Beach 40, Marrakech 33: Daytona Beach leads by 7 points.
Nature & outdoors. Daytona Beach 56, Marrakech 70: Marrakech leads by 14 points.
Day trips. Daytona Beach 66, Marrakech 28: Daytona Beach leads by 38 points.
Good for families. Daytona Beach 60, Marrakech 25: Daytona Beach leads by 35 points.
Getting around. Daytona Beach 18, Marrakech 38: Marrakech leads by 20 points.
Shopping & style. Daytona Beach 27, Marrakech 72: Marrakech leads by 45 points.
Affordability. Daytona Beach 46, Marrakech 72: Marrakech leads by 26 points.
Live music & performing arts. Daytona Beach 30, Marrakech 25: Daytona Beach leads by 5 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Daytona Beach 30, Marrakech 75: Marrakech leads by 45 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Daytona Beach and Marrakech.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Daytona Beach
43match

Wins on beaches and day trips with your weighting.

Marrakech
Best match
49match

Wins on culture and sights and shopping with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Daytona Beach in July

33 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
153 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
28 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Marrakech in July

38 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
No seasea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Daytona BeachMarrakech

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Daytona Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Daytona Beach / Mansfield Mobile Home Park (4.9 km from centre). Marrakech: 1991-2020 normals, Marrakech (5.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureDaytona BeachMarrakech
Official language-Arabic, Standard Moroccan Tamazight
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Moroccan Dirham (MAD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCE50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+1
Emergency number911Police 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15
Elevation4 m465 m
Main airportDaytona Beach International Airport (DAB)5 km from centre8 non-stop destinationsMarrakesh Menara Airport (RAK)6 km from centre113 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureDaytona BeachMarrakech
City population72,6471,002,697
People per km²4404,360
Museums within 10 km614
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C9 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). 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.

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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.