VacationSelector

Ghent 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

Ghent
50
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and places to eat with your weighting.

Marrakech
50
match

Wins on value for money and year-round weather with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

GhentMarrakech
Beaches & swimming. Ghent leads by 26 points.26
GhentMarrakech
Score260
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km80
Coast distance32 km134 km
Water distance32 km
Places to eat. Ghent leads by 16 points.16
GhentMarrakech
Score7054
Restaurants within 2 km of centre764461
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4926
Museums & heritage. Ghent leads by 14 points.14
GhentMarrakech
Score5844
Museums within 10 km2422
Museums within 2 km of centre2017
Share of museums within 2 km %8377
Unesco sites within 50 km51
Nightlife. Ghent leads by 12 points.12
GhentMarrakech
Score4937
Drinking venues within 4 km570282
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre446161
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7857
Nightclubs within 4 km2632
Nature & day trips. Marrakech leads by 18 points.18
GhentMarrakech
Score3452
Protected land share 50 km %7
Landscape blanket share 50 km %40
Land share of disc %87100
Park area within 2 km84 hectares47 hectares
Good for families. Marrakech leads by 3 points.3
GhentMarrakech
Score5053
Tourist attractions within 2 km1928
Park area within 2 km84 hectares47 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Ghent and Marrakech are level on 46.
GhentMarrakech
Score4646
Notable places within 2 km5555
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Marrakech leads by 26 points.26
GhentMarrakech
Score6086
Price level global76.239.8
Daily budget€180
Year-round weather. Marrakech leads by 25 points.25
GhentMarrakech
Score5681
Monthly daytime high6.4 °C to 22 °C19.1 °C to 37.6 °C
Monthly rainfall35 mm to 79 mm1 mm to 36 mm
Dry months112
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
Ghent
6
7
10
13
17
20
22
22
19
15
10
7
Marrakech
19
21
24
26
30
34
38
37
33
29
23
20
Sea temperature, °C
Ghent
6
6
6
9
12
16
18
19
18
15
11
8
Marrakech
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Ghent
59
52
44
35
51
64
74
79
72
76
78
74
Marrakech
26
27
36
28
9
3
1
3
14
19
29
25
Daylight, hours per day
Ghent
9
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
Ghent
3
3
5
7
8
8
8
7
6
4
3
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. Ghent: 1991-2020 normals, Vlissingen (44.9 km from centre). Marrakech: 1991-2020 normals, Marrakech (5.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromGhentMarrakech
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 5 m
€98-165
1 stop
BRU · 56 km
3 h 20 m
€140-172
RAK · 6 km
MadridMAD
2 h 15 m
€98-170
BRU · 56 km
1 h 55 m
€64-110
RAK · 6 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 55 m
€47-116
BRU · 56 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 0 m
no fares
BRU · 56 km
3 h 10 m
€85-123
RAK · 6 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 25 m
€36-101
BRU · 56 km
3 h 10 m
€61-121
RAK · 6 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 40 m
€120-263
BRU · 56 km
1 h 35 m
€64-110
RAK · 6 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 5 m
€87-136
1 stop
BRU · 56 km
3 h 10 m
€115-186
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 20 m
no fares
CRL · 84 km
3 h 35 m
€124-167
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 0 m
€138-162
2 stops
BRU · 56 km
3 h 35 m
€144-224
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 56 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

MeasureGhentMarrakech
Official languageFrench, German, DutchArabic, Standard Moroccan Tamazight
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Moroccan Dirham (MAD)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCE50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1
Emergency number112Police 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15
Elevation12 m465 m
Main airportBrussels Airport (BRU)56 km from centre191 non-stop destinationsMarrakesh Menara Airport (RAK)6 km from centre118 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureGhentMarrakech
City population272,6571,002,697
People per km²1,7284,360
Museums within 10 km3014
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km51
Distinct cuisines in the centre8356
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. 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. 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.