VacationSelector

Edinburgh or Marrakech?

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

Your match

Edinburgh
✓ Best match
58
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.

EdinburghMarrakech
Beaches & swimming. Edinburgh leads by 55 points.55
EdinburghMarrakech
Score550
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km200
Coast distance3 km134 km
Water distance3 km
Places to eat. Edinburgh leads by 16 points.16
EdinburghMarrakech
Score7054
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,023461
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3526
Museums & heritage. Edinburgh leads by 13 points.13
EdinburghMarrakech
Score5744
Museums within 10 km3022
Museums within 2 km of centre2217
Share of museums within 2 km %7377
Unesco sites within 50 km31
Nightlife. Edinburgh leads by 27 points.27
EdinburghMarrakech
Score6437
Drinking venues within 4 km1,193282
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre884161
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7457
Nightclubs within 4 km6532
Nature & day trips. Marrakech leads by 17 points.17
EdinburghMarrakech
Score3552
Protected land share 50 km %2
Landscape blanket share 50 km %10
Land share of disc %85100
Park area within 2 km166 hectares47 hectares
Good for families. Edinburgh leads by 19 points.19
EdinburghMarrakech
Score7253
Tourist attractions within 2 km8728
Park area within 2 km166 hectares47 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km02
Sights concentration. Edinburgh leads by 14 points.14
EdinburghMarrakech
Score6046
Notable places within 2 km12655
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Marrakech leads by 32 points.32
EdinburghMarrakech
Score5486
Price level global84.939.8
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Marrakech leads by 30 points.30
EdinburghMarrakech
Score5181
Monthly daytime high6.6 °C to 18.8 °C19.1 °C to 37.6 °C
Monthly rainfall43 mm to 80 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
Edinburgh
7
7
9
12
14
17
19
19
17
13
9
7
Marrakech
19
21
24
26
30
34
38
37
33
29
23
20
Sea temperature, °C
Edinburgh
7
6
6
7
10
12
14
14
13
12
10
8
Marrakech
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Edinburgh
62
47
47
43
49
63
65
69
55
80
68
63
Marrakech
26
27
36
28
9
3
1
3
14
19
29
25
Daylight, hours per day
Edinburgh
8
10
12
14
16
18
17
15
13
11
8
7
Marrakech
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
11
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Edinburgh
2
3
4
5
6
5
5
5
4
3
3
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. Edinburgh: 1991-2020 normals, Edinburgh Airport (10 km from centre). Marrakech: 1991-2020 normals, Marrakech (5.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromEdinburghMarrakech
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 20 m
€41-45
EDI · 11 km
3 h 20 m
€140-172
RAK · 6 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€78-108
1 stop
EDI · 11 km
3 h 10 m
€85-123
RAK · 6 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 20 m
€75-101
1 stop
EDI · 11 km
3 h 10 m
€61-121
RAK · 6 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
1 h 35 m
no fares
EDI · 11 km
3 h 30 m
€122-160
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 40 m
€58-103
1 stop
EDI · 11 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
MadridMAD
2 h 40 m
no fares
EDI · 11 km
1 h 55 m
€64-110
RAK · 6 km
PalmaPMI
2 h 55 m
no fares
EDI · 11 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
DusseldorfDUS, NRN
1 h 40 m
no fares
EDI · 11 km
3 h 35 m
€173-209
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
TenerifeTFS, TFN
4 h 30 m
no fares
EDI · 11 km
1 h 45 m
€102-113
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
6 h 50 m
no fares
EDI · 11 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

MeasureEdinburghMarrakech
Official languageEnglishArabic, Standard Moroccan Tamazight
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Moroccan Dirham (MAD)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCE50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1
Emergency number112 or 999Police 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15
Elevation47 m465 m
Main airportEdinburgh Airport (EDI)11 km from centre158 non-stop destinationsMarrakesh Menara Airport (RAK)6 km from centre118 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureEdinburghMarrakech
City population488,0501,002,697
People per km²1,8844,360
Museums within 10 km3214
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km31
Distinct cuisines in the centre7856
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). 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. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0.

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.