VacationSelector

Faro or Marrakech?

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

Your match

Faro
47
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Marrakech
✓ Best match
50
match

Wins on sights concentration and museums & heritage 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.

FaroMarrakech
Beaches & swimming. Faro leads by 61 points.61
FaroMarrakech
Score610
Swim season months30
Beaches 10 km130
Coast distance0 km134 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Marrakech leads by 10 points.10
FaroMarrakech
Score4454
Restaurants within 2 km of centre255461
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2226
Museums & heritage. Marrakech leads by 22 points.22
FaroMarrakech
Score2244
Museums within 10 km922
Museums within 2 km of centre817
Share of museums within 2 km %8977
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Marrakech leads by 16 points.16
FaroMarrakech
Score2137
Drinking venues within 4 km143282
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre123161
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8657
Nightclubs within 4 km832
Nature & day trips. Faro leads by 5 points.5
FaroMarrakech
Score5752
Protected land share 50 km %11
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %42100
Park area within 2 km34 hectares47 hectares
Good for families. Marrakech leads by 17 points.17
FaroMarrakech
Score3653
Tourist attractions within 2 km1028
Park area within 2 km34 hectares47 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km22
Sights concentration. Marrakech leads by 24 points.24
FaroMarrakech
Score2246
Notable places within 2 km1455
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Marrakech leads by 12 points.12
FaroMarrakech
Score7486
Price level global55.939.8
Daily budget€109
Year-round weather. Faro leads by 2 points.2
FaroMarrakech
Score8381
Monthly daytime high16.3 °C to 29 °C19.1 °C to 37.6 °C
Monthly rainfall1 mm to 102 mm1 mm to 36 mm
Dry months612
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
Faro
16
17
19
21
24
27
29
29
26
23
19
17
Marrakech
19
21
24
26
30
34
38
37
33
29
23
20
Sea temperature, °C
Faro
17
16
16
17
18
20
21
22
21
21
19
17
Marrakech
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Faro
55
39
44
40
23
6
1
5
28
57
75
102
Marrakech
26
27
36
28
9
3
1
3
14
19
29
25
Daylight, hours per day
Faro
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
13
11
10
10
Marrakech
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
11
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Faro
6
6
8
9
10
12
12
11
9
8
6
6
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. Faro: 1991-2020 normals, Faro / Aeroporto (2.8 km from centre). Marrakech: 1991-2020 normals, Marrakech (5.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromFaroMarrakech
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 40 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
3 h 20 m
€140-172
RAK · 6 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 30 m
€126-204
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
3 h 10 m
€85-123
RAK · 6 km
DublinDUB
2 h 50 m
€75-114
FAO · 3 km
3 h 30 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 50 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
3 h 35 m
€124-167
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
2 h 50 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
3 h 30 m
€122-160
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
BirminghamBHX
2 h 45 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
3 h 30 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
BristolBRS
2 h 35 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
LisbonLIS
55 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
1 h 35 m
€64-110
RAK · 6 km
AmsterdamAMS
3 h 0 m
€144-189
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
3 h 40 m
€201-233
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
EindhovenEIN
2 h 55 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
3 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 2026-09 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

MeasureFaroMarrakech
Official languagePortugueseArabic, Standard Moroccan Tamazight
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Moroccan Dirham (MAD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCE50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1
Emergency number112Police 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15
Elevation10 m465 m
Main airportFaro - Gago Coutinho International Airport (FAO)3 km from centre91 non-stop destinationsMarrakesh Menara Airport (RAK)6 km from centre118 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureFaroMarrakech
City population64,5601,002,697
People per km²3194,360
Museums within 10 km214
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre3456
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 months

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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.