VacationSelector

Galway or Marrakech?

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

Your match

Galway
39
match

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

Marrakech
✓ Best match
50
match

Wins on value for money and good for families 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.

GalwayMarrakech
Beaches & swimming. Galway leads by 51 points.51
GalwayMarrakech
Score510
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km130
Coast distance1 km134 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Marrakech leads by 17 points.17
GalwayMarrakech
Score3754
Restaurants within 2 km of centre173461
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2026
Museums & heritage. Marrakech leads by 24 points.24
GalwayMarrakech
Score2044
Museums within 10 km522
Museums within 2 km of centre517
Share of museums within 2 km %10077
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Marrakech leads by 11 points.11
GalwayMarrakech
Score2637
Drinking venues within 4 km185282
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre153161
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8357
Nightclubs within 4 km832
Nature & day trips. Galway leads by 3 points.3
GalwayMarrakech
Score5552
Protected land share 50 km %
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %85100
Park area within 2 km65 hectares47 hectares
Good for families. Marrakech leads by 28 points.28
GalwayMarrakech
Score2553
Tourist attractions within 2 km528
Park area within 2 km65 hectares47 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km02
Sights concentration. Marrakech leads by 24 points.24
GalwayMarrakech
Score2246
Notable places within 2 km1455
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Marrakech leads by 29 points.29
GalwayMarrakech
Score5786
Price level global80.239.8
Daily budget€187
Year-round weather. Marrakech leads by 27 points.27
GalwayMarrakech
Score5481
Monthly daytime high8.9 °C to 19.6 °C19.1 °C to 37.6 °C
Monthly rainfall63 mm to 113 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
Galway
9
10
11
14
16
19
20
19
18
14
11
9
Marrakech
19
21
24
26
30
34
38
37
33
29
23
20
Sea temperature, °C
Galway
9
9
9
10
12
14
16
16
15
14
12
10
Marrakech
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Galway
100
87
76
63
63
72
76
89
77
101
104
113
Marrakech
26
27
36
28
9
3
1
3
14
19
29
25
Daylight, hours per day
Galway
8
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
Galway
2
2
4
5
6
5
4
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. Galway: 1991-2020 normals, Shannon Airport (64.2 km from centre). Marrakech: 1991-2020 normals, Marrakech (5.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromGalwayMarrakech
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 20 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
3 h 20 m
€140-172
RAK · 6 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
6 h 30 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
7 h 35 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 45 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
3 h 10 m
€85-123
RAK · 6 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 10 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
3 h 35 m
€124-167
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
DublinDUB
1 h 0 m
no fares
KIR · 125 km
3 h 30 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
BirminghamBHX
1 h 15 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
3 h 30 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 30 m
no fares
NOC · 73 km
3 h 10 m
€61-121
RAK · 6 km
TenerifeTFS, TFN
4 h 0 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
1 h 45 m
€102-113
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
EdinburghEDI
1 h 15 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
3 h 55 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
BudapestBUD
3 h 5 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
4 h 5 m
€148-172
2 stops
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

MeasureGalwayMarrakech
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
Elevation25 m465 m
Main airportShannon Airport (SNN)64 km from centre36 non-stop destinationsMarrakesh Menara Airport (RAK)6 km from centre118 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureGalwayMarrakech
City population83,4561,002,697
People per km²1,5634,360
Museums within 10 km414
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre2556
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.