VacationSelector

Dresden 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

Dresden
48
match

Wins on museums & heritage 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.

DresdenMarrakech
Beaches & swimming. Dresden and Marrakech are level on 0.
DresdenMarrakech
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km220
Coast distance267 km134 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Dresden leads by 7 points.7
DresdenMarrakech
Score6154
Restaurants within 2 km of centre422461
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4226
Museums & heritage. Dresden leads by 10 points.10
DresdenMarrakech
Score5444
Museums within 10 km6622
Museums within 2 km of centre3417
Share of museums within 2 km %5277
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Dresden leads by 5 points.5
DresdenMarrakech
Score4237
Drinking venues within 4 km359282
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre265161
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7457
Nightclubs within 4 km4332
Nature & day trips. Marrakech leads by 13 points.13
DresdenMarrakech
Score3952
Protected land share 50 km %14
Landscape blanket share 50 km %90
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km80 hectares47 hectares
Good for families. Dresden leads by 6 points.6
DresdenMarrakech
Score5953
Tourist attractions within 2 km3228
Park area within 2 km80 hectares47 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km22
Sights concentration. Dresden leads by 7 points.7
DresdenMarrakech
Score5346
Notable places within 2 km8255
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Marrakech leads by 26 points.26
DresdenMarrakech
Score6086
Price level global75.939.8
Daily budget€163
Year-round weather. Marrakech leads by 19 points.19
DresdenMarrakech
Score6281
Monthly daytime high4 °C to 26.2 °C19.1 °C to 37.6 °C
Monthly rainfall31 mm to 83 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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Daytime high, °C
Dresden
4
6
10
17
21
24
26
26
21
15
9
6
Marrakech
19
21
24
26
30
34
38
37
33
29
23
20
Rainfall, mm
Dresden
46
31
36
36
64
72
80
83
55
49
40
45
Marrakech
26
27
36
28
9
3
1
3
14
19
29
25
Daylight, hours per day
Dresden
9
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Marrakech
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
11
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Dresden
2
3
4
6
7
7
7
7
6
4
2
2
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. Dresden: 1991-2020 normals, Dresden-Strehlen (3.8 km from centre). Marrakech: 1991-2020 normals, Marrakech (5.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromDresdenMarrakech
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€86-113
PRG · 112 km
3 h 10 m
€85-123
RAK · 6 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 25 m
€57-79
PRG · 112 km
3 h 10 m
€61-121
RAK · 6 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 30 m
€163-247
PRG · 112 km
3 h 40 m
€201-233
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
1 h 30 m
€61-116
PRG · 112 km
3 h 30 m
€122-160
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 40 m
no fares
LEJ · 113 km
3 h 20 m
€140-172
RAK · 6 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 45 m
€62-97
PRG · 112 km
3 h 10 m
€115-186
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 15 m
€111-155
PRG · 112 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
MadridMAD
2 h 45 m
€146-195
1 stop
PRG · 112 km
1 h 55 m
€64-110
RAK · 6 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 25 m
€118-136
PRG · 112 km
4 h 40 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 10 m
€737
BER · 147 km
7 h 35 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

MeasureDresdenMarrakech
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
Elevation126 m465 m
Main airportDresden Airport (DRS)10 km from centre12 non-stop destinationsMarrakesh Menara Airport (RAK)6 km from centre118 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureDresdenMarrakech
City population564,9041,002,697
People per km²1,7204,360
Museums within 10 km7014
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre7756

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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.