VacationSelector

Lisbon or Marrakech?

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

Your match

Lisbon
✓ Best match
68
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nightlife with your weighting.

Marrakech
50
match

Wins on value for money and year-round weather 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.

LisbonMarrakech
Beaches & swimming. Lisbon leads by 57 points.57
LisbonMarrakech
Score570
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km240
Coast distance2 km134 km
Water distance2 km
Places to eat. Lisbon leads by 26 points.26
LisbonMarrakech
Score8054
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2,496461
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3126
Museums & heritage. Lisbon leads by 26 points.26
LisbonMarrakech
Score7044
Museums within 10 km12422
Museums within 2 km of centre5417
Share of museums within 2 km %4477
Unesco sites within 50 km31
Nightlife. Lisbon leads by 28 points.28
LisbonMarrakech
Score6537
Drinking venues within 4 km1,225282
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre956161
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7857
Nightclubs within 4 km6532
Nature & day trips. Lisbon leads by 4 points.4
LisbonMarrakech
Score5652
Protected land share 50 km %11
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %54100
Park area within 2 km77 hectares47 hectares
Good for families. Lisbon leads by 16 points.16
LisbonMarrakech
Score6953
Tourist attractions within 2 km8228
Park area within 2 km77 hectares47 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Lisbon leads by 20 points.20
LisbonMarrakech
Score6646
Notable places within 2 km16955
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Marrakech leads by 12 points.12
LisbonMarrakech
Score7486
Price level global55.939.8
Daily budget€109
Year-round weather. Marrakech leads by 3 points.3
LisbonMarrakech
Score7881
Monthly daytime high14.9 °C to 28.4 °C19.1 °C to 37.6 °C
Monthly rainfall3 mm to 121 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
Lisbon
15
16
19
20
23
26
28
28
26
23
18
15
Marrakech
19
21
24
26
30
34
38
37
33
29
23
20
Sea temperature, °C
Lisbon
15
15
15
15
16
18
18
19
19
18
17
16
Marrakech
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Lisbon
104
73
72
67
53
13
3
7
36
108
121
102
Marrakech
26
27
36
28
9
3
1
3
14
19
29
25
Daylight, hours per day
Lisbon
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
Lisbon
5
6
7
8
10
11
12
11
8
7
5
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. Lisbon: 1991-2020 normals, Lisboa / Geof (1.1 km from centre). Marrakech: 1991-2020 normals, Marrakech (5.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLisbonMarrakech
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 30 m
€112-185
LIS · 7 km
3 h 20 m
€140-172
RAK · 6 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 25 m
€118-145
LIS · 7 km
3 h 10 m
€85-123
RAK · 6 km
MadridMAD
1 h 15 m
€64-74
LIS · 7 km
1 h 55 m
€64-110
RAK · 6 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 50 m
€74-97
LIS · 7 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
2 h 40 m
€129-223
LIS · 7 km
3 h 30 m
€122-160
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 35 m
€124-144
LIS · 7 km
3 h 10 m
€61-121
RAK · 6 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 50 m
€167-189
LIS · 7 km
3 h 40 m
€201-233
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
FunchalFNC
1 h 50 m
€132-180
LIS · 7 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 40 m
no fares
LIS · 7 km
3 h 35 m
€124-167
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 0 m
€621-718
1 stop
LIS · 7 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

MeasureLisbonMarrakech
Official languagePortugueseArabic, Standard Moroccan Tamazight
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Moroccan Dirham (MAD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCE50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1
Emergency number112Police 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15
Elevation100 m465 m
Main airportLisbon Humberto Delgado Airport (LIS)7 km from centre153 non-stop destinationsMarrakesh Menara Airport (RAK)6 km from centre118 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureLisbonMarrakech
City population545,7961,002,697
People per km²5,4534,360
Museums within 10 km7814
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km31
Distinct cuisines in the centre10656
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.