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The harbour seen from above, Marmaris
MarmarisThe harbour seen from above
The Cap Spartel lighthouse among palms, Tangier
TangierThe Cap Spartel lighthouse among palms

Photos: Marmaris by Mstyslav Chernov, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Tangier by Ideophagous, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Marmaris or Tangier?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Marmaris for

  • beaches
  • nightlife
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Marmaris’s own page.

Choose Tangier for

  • culture and sights
  • food and drink
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Tangier’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Marmaris 80, Tangier 50: Marmaris leads by 30 points.
Food & drink. Marmaris 40, Tangier 58: Tangier leads by 18 points.
Culture & sights. Marmaris 18, Tangier 57: Tangier leads by 39 points.
Nightlife. Marmaris 60, Tangier 30: Marmaris leads by 30 points.
Nature & outdoors. Marmaris 72, Tangier 55: Marmaris leads by 17 points.
Day trips. Marmaris 65, Tangier 72: Tangier leads by 7 points.
Good for families. Marmaris 62, Tangier 35: Marmaris leads by 27 points.
Getting around. Marmaris 55, Tangier 40: Marmaris leads by 15 points.
Shopping & style. Marmaris 38, Tangier 42: Tangier leads by 4 points.
Affordability. Marmaris 62, Tangier 76: Tangier leads by 14 points.
Live music & performing arts. Marmaris 12, Tangier 28: Tangier leads by 16 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Marmaris and Tangier are level on 50.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Marmaris and Tangier.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Marmaris
51match

Wins on beaches and nightlife with your weighting.

Tangier
49match

Wins on culture and sights and food and drink with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Marmaris in July

32 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
8 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
25 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Tangier in July

29 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
22 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Marmaris's temperatures are measured 49 km from the centre, at Dalaman.

Marmaris has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Marmaris: 2000-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Dalaman (48.8 km from centre). Tangier: 1991-2020 normals, Tanger Aerodrome (9.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureMarmarisTangier
Official languageTurkishArabic, Standard Moroccan Tamazight
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Moroccan Dirham (MAD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCE50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC+1
Emergency number112Police 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15
Elevation7 m56 m
Main airportDalaman International Airport (DLM)49 km from centre61 non-stop destinationsTangier Ibn Battuta Airport (TNG)11 km from centre50 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureMarmarisTangier
City population97,8181,275,428
People per km²1116,393
Museums within 10 km16
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Swim season, months above 21 °C6 months3 months

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. 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). 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.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.