VacationSelector

Glasgow 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, 2 points apart

Glasgow
48
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nightlife with your weighting.

Marrakech
50
match

Wins on year-round weather 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.

GlasgowMarrakech
Beaches & swimming. Glasgow leads by 36 points.36
GlasgowMarrakech
Score360
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km30
Coast distance3 km134 km
Water distance3 km
Places to eat. Glasgow leads by 9 points.9
GlasgowMarrakech
Score6354
Restaurants within 2 km of centre740461
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2926
Museums & heritage. Glasgow leads by 1 points.1
GlasgowMarrakech
Score4544
Museums within 10 km3222
Museums within 2 km of centre1317
Share of museums within 2 km %4177
Unesco sites within 50 km21
Nightlife. Glasgow leads by 26 points.26
GlasgowMarrakech
Score6337
Drinking venues within 4 km1,078282
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre654161
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6157
Nightclubs within 4 km7332
Nature & day trips. Marrakech leads by 14 points.14
GlasgowMarrakech
Score3852
Protected land share 50 km %16
Landscape blanket share 50 km %120
Land share of disc %91100
Park area within 2 km56 hectares47 hectares
Good for families. Marrakech leads by 12 points.12
GlasgowMarrakech
Score4153
Tourist attractions within 2 km1328
Park area within 2 km56 hectares47 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Glasgow leads by 7 points.7
GlasgowMarrakech
Score5346
Notable places within 2 km8055
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Marrakech leads by 32 points.32
GlasgowMarrakech
Score5486
Price level global84.939.8
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Marrakech leads by 38 points.38
GlasgowMarrakech
Score4381
Monthly daytime high6.6 °C to 18.9 °C19.1 °C to 37.6 °C
Monthly rainfall102 mm to 207 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
Glasgow
7
7
9
12
15
18
19
19
16
13
9
7
Marrakech
19
21
24
26
30
34
38
37
33
29
23
20
Sea temperature, °C
Glasgow
8
7
7
8
10
13
15
15
14
12
11
9
Marrakech
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Glasgow
207
170
147
102
103
111
129
145
132
185
190
205
Marrakech
26
27
36
28
9
3
1
3
14
19
29
25
Daylight, hours per day
Glasgow
8
10
12
14
16
18
17
15
13
11
8
7
Marrakech
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
11
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Glasgow
1
2
3
4
5
4
4
4
3
2
2
1
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. Glasgow: 1991-2020 normals, Glasgow Airport (11.5 km from centre). Marrakech: 1991-2020 normals, Marrakech (5.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromGlasgowMarrakech
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 20 m
€38-45
GLA · 11 km
3 h 20 m
€140-172
RAK · 6 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 45 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
3 h 10 m
€85-123
RAK · 6 km
TenerifeTFS, TFN
4 h 30 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
1 h 45 m
€102-113
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
MalagaAGP
3 h 10 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
PalmaPMI
2 h 55 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
AlicanteALC
3 h 0 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 40 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
1 h 35 m
no fares
EDI · 56 km
3 h 30 m
€122-160
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
Las PalmasLPA
4 h 30 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
6 h 25 m
no fares
EDI · 56 km
7 h 25 m
€549-632
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 2026-08 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

MeasureGlasgowMarrakech
Official languageEnglishArabic, Standard Moroccan Tamazight
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Moroccan Dirham (MAD)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCE50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1
Emergency number112 or 999Police 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15
Elevation21 m465 m
Main airportGlasgow Airport (GLA)11 km from centre95 non-stop destinationsMarrakesh Menara Airport (RAK)6 km from centre118 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureGlasgowMarrakech
City population626,4101,002,697
People per km²1904,360
Museums within 10 km2914
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Distinct cuisines in the centre5456
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). 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.