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Maastricht or Marrakech?

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

Your match

Maastricht
41
match

Wins on museums & heritage with your weighting.

Marrakech
✓ Best match
50
match

Wins on value for money and year-round weather with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

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

MaastrichtMarrakech
Beaches & swimming. Maastricht and Marrakech are level on 0.
MaastrichtMarrakech
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km60
Coast distance118 km134 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Marrakech leads by 6 points.6
MaastrichtMarrakech
Score4854
Restaurants within 2 km of centre338461
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2226
Museums & heritage. Maastricht leads by 9 points.9
MaastrichtMarrakech
Score5344
Museums within 10 km2322
Museums within 2 km of centre1317
Share of museums within 2 km %5777
Unesco sites within 50 km51
Nightlife. Marrakech leads by 7 points.7
MaastrichtMarrakech
Score3037
Drinking venues within 4 km223282
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre182161
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8257
Nightclubs within 4 km1332
Nature & day trips. Marrakech leads by 15 points.15
MaastrichtMarrakech
Score3752
Protected land share 50 km %19
Landscape blanket share 50 km %110
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km33 hectares47 hectares
Good for families. Marrakech leads by 7 points.7
MaastrichtMarrakech
Score4653
Tourist attractions within 2 km1528
Park area within 2 km33 hectares47 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km52
Sights concentration. Marrakech leads by 10 points.10
MaastrichtMarrakech
Score3646
Notable places within 2 km3255
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Marrakech leads by 28 points.28
MaastrichtMarrakech
Score5886
Price level global79.239.8
Daily budget€181
Year-round weather. Marrakech leads by 22 points.22
MaastrichtMarrakech
Score5981
Monthly daytime high5.7 °C to 23.8 °C19.1 °C to 37.6 °C
Monthly rainfall41 mm to 84 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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Daytime high, °C
Maastricht
6
7
11
15
19
22
24
24
20
15
10
6
Marrakech
19
21
24
26
30
34
38
37
33
29
23
20
Rainfall, mm
Maastricht
64
58
55
41
58
69
73
84
58
65
62
74
Marrakech
26
27
36
28
9
3
1
3
14
19
29
25
Daylight, hours per day
Maastricht
9
10
12
14
16
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Marrakech
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
11
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Maastricht
2
3
5
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
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. Maastricht: 1991-2020 normals, Maastricht Airport Zuid Limburg (10 km from centre). Marrakech: 1991-2020 normals, Marrakech (5.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMaastrichtMarrakech
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 10 m
no fares
EIN · 70 km
3 h 20 m
€140-172
RAK · 6 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 85 km
7 h 35 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 0 m
no fares
BRU · 85 km
3 h 10 m
€85-123
RAK · 6 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 30 m
no fares
EIN · 70 km
3 h 10 m
€61-121
RAK · 6 km
BudapestBUD
1 h 55 m
€106-231
EIN · 70 km
4 h 5 m
€148-172
2 stops
RAK · 6 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 0 m
€148-192
1 stop
EIN · 70 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
1 h 55 m
€123-157
1 stop
EIN · 70 km
4 h 30 m
€148-173
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
SofiaSOF
2 h 40 m
€98-110
EIN · 70 km
4 h 15 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 5 m
no fares
EIN · 70 km
3 h 10 m
€115-186
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 45 m
no fares
EIN · 70 km
1 h 35 m
€64-110
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

MeasureMaastrichtMarrakech
Official languageDutchArabic, Standard Moroccan Tamazight
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Moroccan Dirham (MAD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCE50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1
Emergency number112 or 911Police 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15
Elevation49 m465 m
Main airportMaastricht Aachen Airport (MST)9 km from centre5 non-stop destinationsMarrakesh Menara Airport (RAK)6 km from centre118 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureMaastrichtMarrakech
City population120,2271,002,697
People per km²2,0004,360
Museums within 10 km2114
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km51
Distinct cuisines in the centre3356

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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.