VacationSelector

Manila or Marrakech?

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

Your match

Manila
✓ Best match
60
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nightlife with your weighting.

Marrakech
50
match

Wins on nature & day trips 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.

ManilaMarrakech
Beaches & swimming. Manila leads by 76 points.76
ManilaMarrakech
Score760
Swim season months120
Beaches 10 km30
Coast distance2 km134 km
Water distance2 km
Places to eat. Manila leads by 4 points.4
ManilaMarrakech
Score5854
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,015461
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1726
Museums & heritage. Manila leads by 6 points.6
ManilaMarrakech
Score5044
Museums within 10 km7722
Museums within 2 km of centre2317
Share of museums within 2 km %3077
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Manila leads by 24 points.24
ManilaMarrakech
Score6137
Drinking venues within 4 km1,082282
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre374161
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %3557
Nightclubs within 4 km3632
Nature & day trips. Marrakech leads by 23 points.23
ManilaMarrakech
Score2952
Protected land share 50 km %4
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %78100
Park area within 2 km54 hectares47 hectares
Good for families. Manila leads by 7 points.7
ManilaMarrakech
Score6053
Tourist attractions within 2 km3728
Park area within 2 km54 hectares47 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km32
Sights concentration. Manila leads by 6 points.6
ManilaMarrakech
Score5246
Notable places within 2 km7955
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Manila leads by 4 points.4
ManilaMarrakech
Score9086
Price level global33.739.8
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Marrakech leads by 20 points.20
ManilaMarrakech
Score6181
Monthly daytime high30.5 °C to 34.6 °C19.1 °C to 37.6 °C
Monthly rainfall24 mm to 564 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
Manila
31
31
33
35
34
33
32
31
31
32
31
31
Marrakech
19
21
24
26
30
34
38
37
33
29
23
20
Sea temperature, °C
Manila
27
27
28
29
30
30
29
29
29
29
28
28
Marrakech
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Manila
26
24
40
36
220
314
487
564
509
297
152
109
Marrakech
26
27
36
28
9
3
1
3
14
19
29
25
Daylight, hours per day
Manila
11
12
12
13
13
13
13
13
12
12
12
11
Marrakech
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
11
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Manila
No sunshine record
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. Manila: 1991-2020 normals, Science Garden (6 km from centre). Marrakech: 1991-2020 normals, Marrakech (5.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromManilaMarrakech
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
13 h 20 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
3 h 10 m
€85-123
RAK · 6 km
AmsterdamAMS
12 h 55 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
3 h 40 m
€201-233
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
DohaDOH
9 h 15 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
7 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

MeasureManilaMarrakech
Official languageEnglish, Filipino, TaglishArabic, Standard Moroccan Tamazight
CurrencyPhilippine Peso (PHP)Moroccan Dirham (MAD)
SocketsABC220 V, 60 HzCE50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+8UTC+1
Emergency number911Police 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15
Elevation9 m465 m
Main airportNinoy Aquino International Airport (MNL)11 km from centre88 non-stop destinationsMarrakesh Menara Airport (RAK)6 km from centre118 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year18 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureManilaMarrakech
City population1,902,5901,002,697
People per km²76,1044,360
Museums within 10 km2714
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre3956
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months

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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). 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.