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Heidelberg or Marrakech?

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

Your match

Heidelberg
45
match

Wins on nature & day trips and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Marrakech
✓ Best match
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.

HeidelbergMarrakech
Beaches & swimming. Heidelberg and Marrakech are level on 0.
HeidelbergMarrakech
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km60
Coast distance406 km134 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Marrakech leads by 7 points.7
HeidelbergMarrakech
Score4754
Restaurants within 2 km of centre269461
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2626
Museums & heritage. Heidelberg leads by 15 points.15
HeidelbergMarrakech
Score5944
Museums within 10 km5422
Museums within 2 km of centre2317
Share of museums within 2 km %4377
Unesco sites within 50 km41
Nightlife. Marrakech leads by 10 points.10
HeidelbergMarrakech
Score2737
Drinking venues within 4 km201282
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre169161
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8457
Nightclubs within 4 km832
Nature & day trips. Heidelberg leads by 22 points.22
HeidelbergMarrakech
Score7452
Protected land share 50 km %52
Landscape blanket share 50 km %220
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km20 hectares47 hectares
Good for families. Marrakech leads by 10 points.10
HeidelbergMarrakech
Score4353
Tourist attractions within 2 km2928
Park area within 2 km20 hectares47 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Marrakech leads by 10 points.10
HeidelbergMarrakech
Score3646
Notable places within 2 km3155
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Marrakech leads by 26 points.26
HeidelbergMarrakech
Score6086
Price level global75.939.8
Daily budget€163
Year-round weather. Marrakech leads by 20 points.20
HeidelbergMarrakech
Score6181
Monthly daytime high5.2 °C to 25.8 °C19.1 °C to 37.6 °C
Monthly rainfall45 mm to 80 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
Heidelberg
5
7
12
17
21
24
26
26
21
15
9
6
Marrakech
19
21
24
26
30
34
38
37
33
29
23
20
Rainfall, mm
Heidelberg
46
46
53
45
69
66
80
67
56
61
62
64
Marrakech
26
27
36
28
9
3
1
3
14
19
29
25
Daylight, hours per day
Heidelberg
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Marrakech
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
11
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Heidelberg
2
3
4
6
7
7
8
7
6
4
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. Heidelberg: 1991-2020 normals, Heidelberg (4.5 km from centre). Marrakech: 1991-2020 normals, Marrakech (5.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromHeidelbergMarrakech
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 25 m
€74-124
FRA · 69 km
3 h 20 m
€140-172
RAK · 6 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 10 m
€139-148
FRA · 69 km
3 h 10 m
€85-123
RAK · 6 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 15 m
€71-108
FRA · 69 km
3 h 10 m
€61-121
RAK · 6 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
1 h 0 m
no fares
FRA · 69 km
3 h 30 m
€122-160
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
BerlinBER
1 h 10 m
€157-188
FRA · 69 km
4 h 5 m
€180-258
2 stops
RAK · 6 km
MadridMAD
2 h 20 m
€145-238
1 stop
FRA · 69 km
1 h 55 m
€64-110
RAK · 6 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 55 m
€102-123
FRA · 69 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 50 m
€226-277
1 stop
FRA · 69 km
1 h 35 m
€64-110
RAK · 6 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 50 m
€135-301
FRA · 69 km
4 h 40 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 35 m
no fares
FRA · 69 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 2026-09 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

MeasureHeidelbergMarrakech
Official languageGermanArabic, Standard Moroccan Tamazight
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Moroccan Dirham (MAD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCE50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1
Emergency number112Police 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15
Elevation114 m465 m
Main airportFrankfurt Main Airport (FRA)69 km from centre293 non-stop destinationsMarrakesh Menara Airport (RAK)6 km from centre118 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureHeidelbergMarrakech
City population162,9601,002,697
People per km²1,4964,360
Museums within 10 km1714
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km41
Distinct cuisines in the centre4556

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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. 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.