VacationSelector

Izmir or Marrakech?

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

Your match

Izmir
✓ Best match
53
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nightlife with your weighting.

Marrakech
50
match

Wins on nature & day trips and good for families with your weighting.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

Scoreboard

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

IzmirMarrakech
Beaches & swimming. Izmir leads by 55 points.55
IzmirMarrakech
Score550
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km40
Coast distance1 km134 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Marrakech leads by 5 points.5
IzmirMarrakech
Score4954
Restaurants within 2 km of centre770461
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1226
Museums & heritage. Marrakech leads by 1 points.1
IzmirMarrakech
Score4344
Museums within 10 km4722
Museums within 2 km of centre2717
Share of museums within 2 km %5777
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Izmir leads by 25 points.25
IzmirMarrakech
Score6237
Drinking venues within 4 km1,028282
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre695161
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6857
Nightclubs within 4 km7032
Nature & day trips. Marrakech leads by 23 points.23
IzmirMarrakech
Score2952
Protected land share 50 km %4
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %84100
Park area within 2 km62 hectares47 hectares
Good for families. Marrakech leads by 18 points.18
IzmirMarrakech
Score3553
Tourist attractions within 2 km628
Park area within 2 km62 hectares47 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km22
Sights concentration. Marrakech leads by 6 points.6
IzmirMarrakech
Score4046
Notable places within 2 km3955
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Izmir leads by 3 points.3
IzmirMarrakech
Score8986
Price level global35.239.8
Daily budget€100
Year-round weather. Marrakech leads by 9 points.9
IzmirMarrakech
Score7281
Monthly daytime high13 °C to 33.9 °C19.1 °C to 37.6 °C
Monthly rainfall1 mm to 127 mm1 mm to 36 mm
Dry months512
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.

J
F
M
A
M
J
J
A
S
O
N
D
Daytime high, °C
Izmir
13
14
17
21
27
31
34
34
29
24
19
14
Marrakech
19
21
24
26
30
34
38
37
33
29
23
20
Sea temperature, °C
Izmir
16
16
16
17
19
22
23
24
23
21
19
17
Marrakech
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Izmir
119
107
77
51
33
13
1
4
22
55
96
127
Marrakech
26
27
36
28
9
3
1
3
14
19
29
25
Daylight, hours per day
Izmir
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Marrakech
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
11
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Izmir
5
5
7
8
10
11
13
12
10
8
6
4
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. Izmir: 1991-2020 normals, Izmir (3.4 km from centre). Marrakech: 1991-2020 normals, Marrakech (5.1 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromIzmirMarrakech
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 5 m
€46-55
ADB · 13 km
4 h 40 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 45 m
€119-184
ADB · 13 km
3 h 20 m
€140-172
RAK · 6 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
3 h 20 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
3 h 10 m
€85-123
RAK · 6 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
3 h 20 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
3 h 30 m
€122-160
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
DusseldorfDUS, NRN
3 h 10 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
3 h 35 m
€173-209
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
3 h 0 m
€204-238
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
3 h 35 m
€144-224
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
ManchesterMAN
3 h 55 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
3 h 35 m
€124-167
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
BerlinBER
2 h 55 m
€177-214
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
4 h 5 m
€180-258
2 stops
RAK · 6 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 40 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
3 h 10 m
€61-121
RAK · 6 km
BirminghamBHX
4 h 0 m
€250-300
1 stop
BJV · 137 km
3 h 30 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

MeasureIzmirMarrakech
Official languageTurkishArabic, Standard Moroccan Tamazight
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Moroccan Dirham (MAD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCE50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC+1
Emergency number112Police 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15
Elevation2 m465 m
Main airportAdnan Menderes International Airport (ADB)13 km from centre120 non-stop destinationsMarrakesh Menara Airport (RAK)6 km from centre118 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureIzmirMarrakech
City population4,493,2421,002,697
People per km²4,7604,360
Museums within 10 km2914
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre2056
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months

Where else could you go?

Every comparison below shares a destination with this one, so you can follow Izmir or Marrakech somewhere new.

Browse every destination we have measured

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). 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.