VacationSelector

Fort Lauderdale or Marrakech?

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

Your match

Fort Lauderdale
45
match

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

Marrakech
✓ Best match
50
match

Wins on sights concentration and value for money 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.

Fort LauderdaleMarrakech
Beaches & swimming. Fort Lauderdale leads by 84 points.84
Fort LauderdaleMarrakech
Score840
Swim season months120
Beaches 10 km70
Coast distance0 km134 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Marrakech leads by 9 points.9
Fort LauderdaleMarrakech
Score4554
Restaurants within 2 km of centre371461
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1826
Museums & heritage. Marrakech leads by 24 points.24
Fort LauderdaleMarrakech
Score2044
Museums within 10 km1422
Museums within 2 km of centre617
Share of museums within 2 km %4377
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Marrakech leads by 3 points.3
Fort LauderdaleMarrakech
Score3437
Drinking venues within 4 km259282
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre144161
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5657
Nightclubs within 4 km1832
Nature & day trips. Fort Lauderdale leads by 29 points.29
Fort LauderdaleMarrakech
Score8152
Protected land share 50 km %20
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %51100
Park area within 2 km45 hectares47 hectares
Good for families. Marrakech leads by 34 points.34
Fort LauderdaleMarrakech
Score1953
Tourist attractions within 2 km228
Park area within 2 km45 hectares47 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km02
Sights concentration. Marrakech leads by 46 points.46
Fort LauderdaleMarrakech
Score046
Notable places within 2 km255
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Marrakech leads by 43 points.43
Fort LauderdaleMarrakech
Score4386
Price level global10039.8
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Marrakech leads by 5 points.5
Fort LauderdaleMarrakech
Score7681
Monthly daytime high24.2 °C to 32.3 °C19.1 °C to 37.6 °C
Monthly rainfall55 mm to 219 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
Fort Lauderdale
24
26
27
29
30
31
32
32
31
30
27
26
Marrakech
19
21
24
26
30
34
38
37
33
29
23
20
Sea temperature, °C
Fort Lauderdale
25
25
25
26
27
28
29
30
29
28
27
26
Marrakech
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Fort Lauderdale
55
59
57
72
159
219
166
198
202
144
91
73
Marrakech
26
27
36
28
9
3
1
3
14
19
29
25
Daylight, hours per day
Fort Lauderdale
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11
Marrakech
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
11
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Fort Lauderdale
No sunshine record
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. Fort Lauderdale: 1991-2020 normals, Fort Lauderdale (7.1 km from centre). Marrakech: 1991-2020 normals, Marrakech (5.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromFort LauderdaleMarrakech
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
9 h 0 m
€550-628
1 stop
MIA · 41 km
3 h 20 m
€140-172
RAK · 6 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
9 h 20 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
3 h 10 m
€85-123
RAK · 6 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
2 h 40 m
€140-271
1 stop
FLL · 7 km
7 h 35 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
MadridMAD
9 h 0 m
€522-631
1 stop
MIA · 41 km
1 h 55 m
€64-110
RAK · 6 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
3 h 15 m
no fares
FLL · 7 km
7 h 25 m
€549-632
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
10 h 0 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
3 h 10 m
€61-121
RAK · 6 km
AtlantaATL, PDK
1 h 45 m
€93-112
FLL · 7 km
8 h 55 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
BarcelonaBCN
9 h 35 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
LisbonLIS
8 h 30 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
1 h 35 m
€64-110
RAK · 6 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
9 h 50 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
3 h 35 m
€144-224
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 2026-09 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

MeasureFort LauderdaleMarrakech
Official languageArabic, 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
Elevation11 m465 m
Main airportFort Lauderdale Hollywood International Airport (FLL)7 km from centre125 non-stop destinationsMarrakesh Menara Airport (RAK)6 km from centre118 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureFort LauderdaleMarrakech
City population182,7601,002,697
People per km²1,8294,360
Museums within 10 km614
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre2556
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 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). 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.