VacationSelector

Helsinki or Marrakech?

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

Your match

Helsinki
✓ Best match
57
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and sights concentration 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.

HelsinkiMarrakech
Beaches & swimming. Helsinki leads by 60 points.60
HelsinkiMarrakech
Score600
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km1570
Coast distance0 km134 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Helsinki leads by 17 points.17
HelsinkiMarrakech
Score7154
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,005461
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3826
Museums & heritage. Helsinki leads by 5 points.5
HelsinkiMarrakech
Score4944
Museums within 10 km5722
Museums within 2 km of centre2317
Share of museums within 2 km %4077
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Helsinki leads by 19 points.19
HelsinkiMarrakech
Score5637
Drinking venues within 4 km807282
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre607161
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7557
Nightclubs within 4 km4032
Nature & day trips. Marrakech leads by 10 points.10
HelsinkiMarrakech
Score4252
Protected land share 50 km %3
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %53100
Park area within 2 km185 hectares47 hectares
Good for families. Helsinki leads by 5 points.5
HelsinkiMarrakech
Score5853
Tourist attractions within 2 km2028
Park area within 2 km185 hectares47 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Helsinki leads by 27 points.27
HelsinkiMarrakech
Score7346
Notable places within 2 km25755
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Marrakech leads by 30 points.30
HelsinkiMarrakech
Score5686
Price level global81.639.8
Daily budget€184
Year-round weather. Marrakech leads by 33 points.33
HelsinkiMarrakech
Score4881
Monthly daytime high-1.5 °C to 21.9 °C19.1 °C to 37.6 °C
Monthly rainfall32 mm to 84 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
Helsinki
-1
-1
2
8
15
19
22
21
15
9
4
1
Marrakech
19
21
24
26
30
34
38
37
33
29
23
20
Sea temperature, °C
Helsinki
2
1
1
2
6
11
16
17
14
10
7
4
Marrakech
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Helsinki
54
38
35
32
41
56
58
84
55
75
70
59
Marrakech
26
27
36
28
9
3
1
3
14
19
29
25
Daylight, hours per day
Helsinki
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Marrakech
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
11
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Helsinki
1
2
5
7
9
9
9
8
5
3
1
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. Helsinki: 1991-2020 normals, Helsinki Kaisaniemi / Harju (1.6 km from centre). Marrakech: 1991-2020 normals, Marrakech (5.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromHelsinkiMarrakech
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 50 m
€112-224
HEL · 16 km
3 h 20 m
€140-172
RAK · 6 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 55 m
€187-219
1 stop
HEL · 16 km
3 h 10 m
€85-123
RAK · 6 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
1 h 10 m
€62-63
HEL · 16 km
5 h 0 m
€136-201
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 25 m
€251-299
1 stop
HEL · 16 km
3 h 40 m
€201-233
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 45 m
€111-131
HEL · 16 km
4 h 20 m
€165-220
2 stops
RAK · 6 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
3 h 0 m
€144-161
HEL · 16 km
3 h 10 m
€61-121
RAK · 6 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
2 h 35 m
no fares
HEL · 16 km
3 h 30 m
€122-160
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 30 m
€203-241
1 stop
HEL · 16 km
3 h 35 m
€144-224
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
DohaDOH
5 h 50 m
no fares
HEL · 16 km
7 h 30 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 25 m
no fares
HEL · 16 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

MeasureHelsinkiMarrakech
Official languageFinnish, SwedishArabic, Standard Moroccan Tamazight
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Moroccan Dirham (MAD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCE50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC+1
Emergency number112Police 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15
Elevation17 m465 m
Main airportHelsinki Vantaa Airport (HEL)16 km from centre120 non-stop destinationsMarrakesh Menara Airport (RAK)6 km from centre118 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureHelsinkiMarrakech
City population694,3921,002,697
People per km²3,2394,360
Museums within 10 km7414
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre7856
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. 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.