VacationSelector

Lyon or Marrakech?

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

Your match

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Lyon
52
match

Wins on places to eat and nightlife with your weighting.

Marrakech
50
match

Wins on value for money and nature & day trips 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.

LyonMarrakech
Beaches & swimming. Lyon and Marrakech are level on 0.
LyonMarrakech
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km260
Coast distance253 km134 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Lyon leads by 25 points.25
LyonMarrakech
Score7954
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,691461
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4026
Museums & heritage. Lyon leads by 11 points.11
LyonMarrakech
Score5544
Museums within 10 km5322
Museums within 2 km of centre2517
Share of museums within 2 km %4777
Unesco sites within 50 km21
Nightlife. Lyon leads by 21 points.21
LyonMarrakech
Score5837
Drinking venues within 4 km866282
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre611161
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7157
Nightclubs within 4 km4732
Nature & day trips. Marrakech leads by 19 points.19
LyonMarrakech
Score3352
Protected land share 50 km %6
Landscape blanket share 50 km %60
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km120 hectares47 hectares
Good for families. Lyon leads by 6 points.6
LyonMarrakech
Score5953
Tourist attractions within 2 km2528
Park area within 2 km120 hectares47 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km22
Sights concentration. Lyon leads by 8 points.8
LyonMarrakech
Score5446
Notable places within 2 km8655
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Marrakech leads by 24 points.24
LyonMarrakech
Score6286
Price level global73.739.8
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Marrakech leads by 17 points.17
LyonMarrakech
Score6481
Monthly daytime high7 °C to 28 °C19.1 °C to 37.6 °C
Monthly rainfall43 mm to 101 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
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A
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J
A
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Daytime high, °C
Lyon
7
9
14
17
21
26
28
28
23
18
11
8
Marrakech
19
21
24
26
30
34
38
37
33
29
23
20
Rainfall, mm
Lyon
51
43
50
68
82
73
66
68
84
101
88
54
Marrakech
26
27
36
28
9
3
1
3
14
19
29
25
Daylight, hours per day
Lyon
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Marrakech
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
11
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Lyon
2
3
6
6
7
9
9
8
6
4
3
2
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. Lyon: 1991-2020 normals, Lyon / Bron (10.6 km from centre). Marrakech: 1991-2020 normals, Marrakech (5.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLyonMarrakech
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 35 m
no fares
LYS · 20 km
3 h 20 m
€140-172
RAK · 6 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 10 m
no fares
LYS · 20 km
3 h 10 m
€85-123
RAK · 6 km
BordeauxBOD
1 h 15 m
no fares
LYS · 20 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
NantesNTE
1 h 20 m
no fares
LYS · 20 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 20 m
€109-165
LYS · 20 km
1 h 35 m
€64-110
RAK · 6 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
1 h 20 m
no fares
LYS · 20 km
3 h 30 m
€122-160
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 20 m
€70-92
LYS · 20 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 0 m
€167-217
LYS · 20 km
4 h 40 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
MadridMAD
1 h 45 m
no fares
LYS · 20 km
1 h 55 m
€64-110
RAK · 6 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 35 m
€446-565
1 stop
LYS · 20 km
7 h 25 m
€549-632
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

MeasureLyonMarrakech
Official languageFrenchArabic, Standard Moroccan Tamazight
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Moroccan Dirham (MAD)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCE50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1
Emergency number112Police 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15
Elevation160 m465 m
Main airportLyon Saint-Exupéry Airport (LYS)20 km from centre139 non-stop destinationsMarrakesh Menara Airport (RAK)6 km from centre118 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureLyonMarrakech
City population519,1271,002,697
People per km²10,8384,360
Museums within 10 km4214
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Distinct cuisines in the centre14856

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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). 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.