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Geneva or Marrakech?

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

Your match

Too close to call, level with your weighting

Geneva
50
match

Wins on places to eat 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.

GenevaMarrakech
Beaches & swimming. Geneva and Marrakech are level on 0.
GenevaMarrakech
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km430
Coast distance279 km134 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Geneva leads by 16 points.16
GenevaMarrakech
Score7054
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,028461
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3526
Museums & heritage. Geneva leads by 8 points.8
GenevaMarrakech
Score5244
Museums within 10 km3522
Museums within 2 km of centre2017
Share of museums within 2 km %5777
Unesco sites within 50 km21
Nightlife. Geneva leads by 13 points.13
GenevaMarrakech
Score5037
Drinking venues within 4 km549282
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre427161
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7857
Nightclubs within 4 km6032
Nature & day trips. Geneva leads by 7 points.7
GenevaMarrakech
Score5952
Protected land share 50 km %27
Landscape blanket share 50 km %210
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km182 hectares47 hectares
Good for families. Geneva leads by 12 points.12
GenevaMarrakech
Score6553
Tourist attractions within 2 km2828
Park area within 2 km182 hectares47 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km22
Sights concentration. Geneva leads by 10 points.10
GenevaMarrakech
Score5646
Notable places within 2 km9955
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Marrakech leads by 51 points.51
GenevaMarrakech
Score3586
Price level global110.539.8
Daily budget€248
Year-round weather. Marrakech leads by 22 points.22
GenevaMarrakech
Score5981
Monthly daytime high5.1 °C to 26.8 °C19.1 °C to 37.6 °C
Monthly rainfall55 mm to 94 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
Geneva
5
7
12
16
20
24
27
26
21
16
9
6
Marrakech
19
21
24
26
30
34
38
37
33
29
23
20
Rainfall, mm
Geneva
71
55
61
66
77
81
77
80
87
94
87
88
Marrakech
26
27
36
28
9
3
1
3
14
19
29
25
Daylight, hours per day
Geneva
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Marrakech
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
11
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Geneva
2
3
6
6
7
8
9
8
6
4
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. Geneva: 1991-2020 normals, Geneve-Cointrin (5.7 km from centre). Marrakech: 1991-2020 normals, Marrakech (5.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromGenevaMarrakech
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 35 m
€91-200
GVA · 5 km
3 h 20 m
€140-172
RAK · 6 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 10 m
€104-203
GVA · 5 km
3 h 10 m
€85-123
RAK · 6 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
1 h 20 m
no fares
GVA · 5 km
3 h 30 m
€122-160
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 25 m
€156-181
1 stop
GVA · 5 km
1 h 35 m
€64-110
RAK · 6 km
PortoOPO
2 h 10 m
€127-171
1 stop
GVA · 5 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
MadridMAD
1 h 50 m
no fares
GVA · 5 km
1 h 55 m
€64-110
RAK · 6 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 50 m
no fares
GVA · 5 km
3 h 35 m
€124-167
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 25 m
€65-78
GVA · 5 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 30 m
€160-186
GVA · 5 km
3 h 40 m
€201-233
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 0 m
no fares
GVA · 5 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

MeasureGenevaMarrakech
Official languageFrench, German, Italian, RomanshArabic, Standard Moroccan Tamazight
CurrencySwiss Franc (CHF)Moroccan Dirham (MAD)
SocketsCJ230 V, 50 HzCE50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1
Emergency number112Police 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15
Elevation403 m465 m
Main airportGeneva International Airport (GVA)5 km from centre140 non-stop destinationsMarrakesh Menara Airport (RAK)6 km from centre118 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureGenevaMarrakech
City population209,0611,002,697
People per km²13,1484,360
Museums within 10 km3514
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Distinct cuisines in the centre8056

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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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.