VacationSelector

Hong Kong or Marrakech?

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

Your match

Hong Kong
✓ Best match
68
match

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

Marrakech
50
match

Wins on value for money and museums & heritage 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.

Hong KongMarrakech
Beaches & swimming. Hong Kong leads by 87 points.87
Hong KongMarrakech
Score870
Swim season months80
Beaches 10 km650
Coast distance0 km134 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Hong Kong leads by 34 points.34
Hong KongMarrakech
Score8854
Restaurants within 2 km of centre4,325461
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3226
Museums & heritage. Marrakech leads by 8 points.8
Hong KongMarrakech
Score3644
Museums within 10 km5022
Museums within 2 km of centre1717
Share of museums within 2 km %3477
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Hong Kong leads by 34 points.34
Hong KongMarrakech
Score7137
Drinking venues within 4 km1,948282
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,154161
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5957
Nightclubs within 4 km3732
Nature & day trips. Hong Kong leads by 12 points.12
Hong KongMarrakech
Score6452
Protected land share 50 km %8
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %29100
Park area within 2 km52 hectares47 hectares
Good for families. Hong Kong leads by 5 points.5
Hong KongMarrakech
Score5853
Tourist attractions within 2 km2728
Park area within 2 km52 hectares47 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km52
Sights concentration. Hong Kong leads by 23 points.23
Hong KongMarrakech
Score6946
Notable places within 2 km20455
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Marrakech leads by 23 points.23
Hong KongMarrakech
Score6386
Price level global7239.8
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Marrakech leads by 7 points.7
Hong KongMarrakech
Score7481
Monthly daytime high19.4 °C to 31.3 °C19.1 °C to 37.6 °C
Monthly rainfall23 mm to 493 mm1 mm to 36 mm
Dry months412
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
Hong Kong
19
20
22
26
29
30
31
31
31
28
25
21
Marrakech
19
21
24
26
30
34
38
37
33
29
23
20
Sea temperature, °C
Hong Kong
20
20
21
23
26
28
29
29
28
27
24
21
Marrakech
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Hong Kong
23
39
70
144
280
493
381
453
331
92
36
31
Marrakech
26
27
36
28
9
3
1
3
14
19
29
25
Daylight, hours per day
Hong Kong
11
11
12
13
13
14
13
13
12
12
11
11
Marrakech
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
11
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Hong Kong
5
3
3
4
5
5
7
6
6
6
6
5
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. Hong Kong: 1991-2020 normals, King's Park (4.4 km from centre). Marrakech: 1991-2020 normals, Marrakech (5.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromHong KongMarrakech
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
12 h 0 m
€570-666
1 stop
HKG · 25 km
3 h 20 m
€140-172
RAK · 6 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
11 h 55 m
€586-713
1 stop
HKG · 25 km
3 h 10 m
€85-123
RAK · 6 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
11 h 40 m
no fares
HKG · 25 km
3 h 30 m
€122-160
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
11 h 40 m
no fares
HKG · 25 km
3 h 10 m
€61-121
RAK · 6 km
ManchesterMAN
12 h 0 m
no fares
HKG · 25 km
3 h 35 m
€124-167
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
11 h 25 m
€630-670
1 stop
HKG · 25 km
3 h 35 m
€144-224
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
AmsterdamAMS
11 h 35 m
€637
HKG · 25 km
3 h 40 m
€201-233
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
BarcelonaBCN
12 h 30 m
no fares
HKG · 25 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
MadridMAD
13 h 0 m
no fares
HKG · 25 km
1 h 55 m
€64-110
RAK · 6 km
RomeFCO, CIA
11 h 35 m
no fares
HKG · 25 km
3 h 10 m
€115-186
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

MeasureHong KongMarrakech
Official languageStandard ChineseArabic, Standard Moroccan Tamazight
CurrencyHong Kong Dollar (HKD)Moroccan Dirham (MAD)
SocketsG220 V, 50 HzCE50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+8UTC+1
Emergency number999Police 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15
Elevation7 m465 m
Main airportHong Kong International Airport (HKG)25 km from centre151 non-stop destinationsMarrakesh Menara Airport (RAK)6 km from centre118 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureHong KongMarrakech
City population7,413,0701,002,697
People per km²4,360
Museums within 10 km3914
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre7656
Swim season, months above 21 °C8 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). 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.