VacationSelector

Dublin or Marrakech?

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

Your match

Dublin
✓ Best match
55
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nightlife 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.

DublinMarrakech
Beaches & swimming. Dublin leads by 49 points.49
DublinMarrakech
Score490
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km110
Coast distance3 km134 km
Water distance3 km
Places to eat. Dublin leads by 16 points.16
DublinMarrakech
Score7054
Restaurants within 2 km of centre920461
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3726
Museums & heritage. Dublin leads by 11 points.11
DublinMarrakech
Score5544
Museums within 10 km4722
Museums within 2 km of centre3717
Share of museums within 2 km %7977
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Dublin leads by 27 points.27
DublinMarrakech
Score6437
Drinking venues within 4 km1,239282
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre934161
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7557
Nightclubs within 4 km4032
Nature & day trips. Marrakech leads by 26 points.26
DublinMarrakech
Score2652
Protected land share 50 km %3
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %62100
Park area within 2 km43 hectares47 hectares
Good for families. Dublin leads by 1 points.1
DublinMarrakech
Score5453
Tourist attractions within 2 km4128
Park area within 2 km43 hectares47 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Dublin leads by 16 points.16
DublinMarrakech
Score6246
Notable places within 2 km14155
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Marrakech leads by 29 points.29
DublinMarrakech
Score5786
Price level global80.239.8
Daily budget€187
Year-round weather. Marrakech leads by 27 points.27
DublinMarrakech
Score5481
Monthly daytime high8.2 °C to 19.5 °C19.1 °C to 37.6 °C
Monthly rainfall52 mm to 83 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
Dublin
8
9
10
12
15
18
20
19
17
14
10
8
Marrakech
19
21
24
26
30
34
38
37
33
29
23
20
Sea temperature, °C
Dublin
9
8
8
9
11
13
15
15
15
13
12
11
Marrakech
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Dublin
62
52
52
55
58
65
62
74
61
78
83
72
Marrakech
26
27
36
28
9
3
1
3
14
19
29
25
Daylight, hours per day
Dublin
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
Marrakech
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
11
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Dublin
2
3
4
5
6
6
5
5
4
3
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. Dublin: 1991-2020 normals, Dublin Airport (9.3 km from centre). Marrakech: 1991-2020 normals, Marrakech (5.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromDublinMarrakech
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 10 m
€33-43
DUB · 9 km
3 h 20 m
€140-172
RAK · 6 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 35 m
€43-47
DUB · 9 km
3 h 10 m
€85-123
RAK · 6 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 0 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
3 h 35 m
€124-167
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 35 m
€80-139
DUB · 9 km
3 h 40 m
€201-233
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
BirminghamBHX
1 h 5 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
3 h 30 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
1 h 35 m
€60-123
1 stop
DUB · 9 km
3 h 30 m
€122-160
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 20 m
€53-95
DUB · 9 km
3 h 10 m
€61-121
RAK · 6 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 25 m
€71-105
DUB · 9 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
MadridMAD
2 h 25 m
€66-101
1 stop
DUB · 9 km
1 h 55 m
€64-110
RAK · 6 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
6 h 15 m
no fares
DUB · 9 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 2026-08 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

MeasureDublinMarrakech
Official languageEnglish, IrishArabic, Standard Moroccan Tamazight
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Moroccan Dirham (MAD)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCE50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1
Emergency number112Police 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15
Elevation20 m465 m
Main airportDublin Airport (DUB)9 km from centre201 non-stop destinationsMarrakesh Menara Airport (RAK)6 km from centre118 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureDublinMarrakech
City population592,7131,002,697
People per km²5,1544,360
Museums within 10 km4014
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre7456
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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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). 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.