VacationSelector

Lucerne or Marrakech?

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

Your match

Lucerne
33
match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

Marrakech
✓ Best match
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.

LucerneMarrakech
Beaches & swimming. Lucerne and Marrakech are level on 0.
LucerneMarrakech
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km160
Coast distance669 km134 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Marrakech leads by 7 points.7
LucerneMarrakech
Score4754
Restaurants within 2 km of centre269461
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2526
Museums & heritage. Marrakech leads by 4 points.4
LucerneMarrakech
Score4044
Museums within 10 km2322
Museums within 2 km of centre1317
Share of museums within 2 km %5777
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Marrakech leads by 9 points.9
LucerneMarrakech
Score2837
Drinking venues within 4 km202282
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre151161
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7557
Nightclubs within 4 km1132
Nature & day trips. Marrakech leads by 27 points.27
LucerneMarrakech
Score2552
Protected land share 50 km %7
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km29 hectares47 hectares
Good for families. Marrakech leads by 15 points.15
LucerneMarrakech
Score3853
Tourist attractions within 2 km1528
Park area within 2 km29 hectares47 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Marrakech leads by 11 points.11
LucerneMarrakech
Score3546
Notable places within 2 km2955
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Marrakech leads by 51 points.51
LucerneMarrakech
Score3586
Price level global110.539.8
Daily budget€248
Year-round weather. Marrakech leads by 28 points.28
LucerneMarrakech
Score5381
Monthly daytime high3.6 °C to 24.3 °C19.1 °C to 37.6 °C
Monthly rainfall60 mm to 128 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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F
M
A
M
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J
A
S
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D
Daytime high, °C
Lucerne
4
5
10
15
19
22
24
24
19
14
8
4
Marrakech
19
21
24
26
30
34
38
37
33
29
23
20
Rainfall, mm
Lucerne
62
60
71
80
126
128
126
119
87
85
76
84
Marrakech
26
27
36
28
9
3
1
3
14
19
29
25
Daylight, hours per day
Lucerne
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Marrakech
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
11
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Lucerne
2
3
5
6
6
7
7
7
5
3
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. Lucerne: 1991-2020 normals, Zurich Town / Ville. (41.7 km from centre). Marrakech: 1991-2020 normals, Marrakech (5.1 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromLucerneMarrakech
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 35 m
€110-163
ZRH · 49 km
3 h 20 m
€140-172
RAK · 6 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 15 m
€163-196
ZRH · 49 km
3 h 10 m
€85-123
RAK · 6 km
MadridMAD
2 h 5 m
€158-220
1 stop
ZRH · 49 km
1 h 55 m
€64-110
RAK · 6 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 40 m
€114-151
ZRH · 49 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
1 h 15 m
no fares
ZRH · 49 km
3 h 30 m
€122-160
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
BerlinBER
1 h 25 m
€140-176
ZRH · 49 km
4 h 5 m
€180-258
2 stops
RAK · 6 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 40 m
€188-233
ZRH · 49 km
1 h 35 m
€64-110
RAK · 6 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 25 m
€234-276
ZRH · 49 km
3 h 40 m
€201-233
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 0 m
no fares
ZRH · 49 km
3 h 35 m
€144-224
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 5 m
€606-782
1 stop
ZRH · 49 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

MeasureLucerneMarrakech
Official languageFrench, German, Italian, RomanshArabic, Standard Moroccan Tamazight
CurrencySwiss Franc (CHF)Moroccan Dirham (MAD)
SocketsCJ230 V, 50 HzCE50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1
Emergency number112Police 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15
Elevation436 m465 m
Main airportZürich Airport (ZRH)49 km from centre181 non-stop destinationsMarrakesh Menara Airport (RAK)6 km from centre118 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureLucerneMarrakech
City population86,2341,002,697
People per km²2,9634,360
Museums within 10 km1414
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre4656

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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). 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.