VacationSelector

Genoa or Marrakech?

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

Your match

Genoa
✓ Best match
56
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and sights concentration with your weighting.

Marrakech
50
match

Wins on value for money and nature & day trips 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.

GenoaMarrakech
Beaches & swimming. Genoa leads by 73 points.73
GenoaMarrakech
Score730
Swim season months40
Beaches 10 km370
Coast distance0 km134 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Marrakech leads by 4 points.4
GenoaMarrakech
Score5054
Restaurants within 2 km of centre691461
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1426
Museums & heritage. Genoa leads by 11 points.11
GenoaMarrakech
Score5544
Museums within 10 km4722
Museums within 2 km of centre3317
Share of museums within 2 km %7077
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Genoa leads by 13 points.13
GenoaMarrakech
Score5037
Drinking venues within 4 km637282
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre419161
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6657
Nightclubs within 4 km1732
Nature & day trips. Marrakech leads by 17 points.17
GenoaMarrakech
Score3552
Protected land share 50 km %8
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %61100
Park area within 2 km29 hectares47 hectares
Good for families. Marrakech leads by 15 points.15
GenoaMarrakech
Score3853
Tourist attractions within 2 km2128
Park area within 2 km29 hectares47 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km02
Sights concentration. Genoa leads by 15 points.15
GenoaMarrakech
Score6146
Notable places within 2 km13055
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Marrakech leads by 18 points.18
GenoaMarrakech
Score6886
Price level global64.939.8
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Marrakech leads by 8 points.8
GenoaMarrakech
Score7381
Monthly daytime high11.7 °C to 27.9 °C19.1 °C to 37.6 °C
Monthly rainfall12 mm to 122 mm1 mm to 36 mm
Dry months312
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
Genoa
12
12
15
18
21
25
27
28
25
20
16
13
Marrakech
19
21
24
26
30
34
38
37
33
29
23
20
Sea temperature, °C
Genoa
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
Marrakech
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Genoa
58
41
47
67
40
26
12
20
72
101
122
89
Marrakech
26
27
36
28
9
3
1
3
14
19
29
25
Daylight, hours per day
Genoa
9
10
12
13
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
Genoa
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
10
7
6
4
4
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. Genoa: 1991-2020 normals, Genova / Sestri (6.7 km from centre). Marrakech: 1991-2020 normals, Marrakech (5.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromGenoaMarrakech
MadridMAD
2 h 0 m
€63-91
MXP · 137 km
1 h 55 m
€64-110
RAK · 6 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 55 m
no fares
GOA · 7 km
3 h 20 m
€140-172
RAK · 6 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 15 m
€542-635
1 stop
MXP · 137 km
7 h 35 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 35 m
€78-142
MXP · 137 km
1 h 35 m
€64-110
RAK · 6 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 30 m
no fares
GOA · 7 km
3 h 10 m
€85-123
RAK · 6 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 40 m
€140-309
MXP · 137 km
4 h 40 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 0 m
no fares
MXP · 137 km
3 h 35 m
€124-167
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 15 m
€67-76
LIN · 119 km
3 h 35 m
€144-224
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
BudapestBUD
1 h 40 m
€39-54
MXP · 137 km
4 h 5 m
€148-172
2 stops
RAK · 6 km
AthensATH
2 h 25 m
€91-99
MXP · 137 km
4 h 10 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

MeasureGenoaMarrakech
Official languageItalianArabic, Standard Moroccan Tamazight
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Moroccan Dirham (MAD)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzCE50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1
Emergency number112Police 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15
Elevation20 m465 m
Main airportGenoa Cristoforo Colombo Airport (GOA)7 km from centre23 non-stop destinationsMarrakesh Menara Airport (RAK)6 km from centre118 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureGenoaMarrakech
City population558,7451,002,697
People per km²2,3254,360
Museums within 10 km5114
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre4156
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 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.