VacationSelector

Marrakech or Marseille?

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

Your match

Marrakech
50
match

Wins on value for money and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Marseille
✓ Best match
57
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and places to eat 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.

MarrakechMarseille
Beaches & swimming. Marseille leads by 67 points.67
MarrakechMarseille
Score067
Swim season months02
Beaches 10 km064
Coast distance134 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Marseille leads by 21 points.21
MarrakechMarseille
Score5475
Restaurants within 2 km of centre4611,320
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2639
Museums & heritage. Marseille leads by 6 points.6
MarrakechMarseille
Score4450
Museums within 10 km2233
Museums within 2 km of centre1723
Share of museums within 2 km %7770
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Marseille leads by 11 points.11
MarrakechMarseille
Score3748
Drinking venues within 4 km282544
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre161454
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5783
Nightclubs within 4 km3230
Nature & day trips. Marrakech leads by 15 points.15
MarrakechMarseille
Score5237
Protected land share 50 km %15
Landscape blanket share 50 km %013
Land share of disc %10056
Park area within 2 km47 hectares25 hectares
Good for families. Marrakech leads by 9 points.9
MarrakechMarseille
Score5344
Tourist attractions within 2 km2817
Park area within 2 km47 hectares25 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km24
Sights concentration. Marseille leads by 12 points.12
MarrakechMarseille
Score4658
Notable places within 2 km55111
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Marrakech leads by 24 points.24
MarrakechMarseille
Score8662
Price level global39.873.7
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Marrakech leads by 6 points.6
MarrakechMarseille
Score8175
Monthly daytime high19.1 °C to 37.6 °C11.8 °C to 30.7 °C
Monthly rainfall1 mm to 36 mm11 mm to 82 mm
Dry months126
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
Marrakech
19
21
24
26
30
34
38
37
33
29
23
20
Marseille
12
13
16
19
24
28
31
30
26
21
16
12
Sea temperature, °C
Marrakech
No coastline within reach
Marseille
13
13
13
14
16
19
21
22
21
19
17
15
Rainfall, mm
Marrakech
26
27
36
28
9
3
1
3
14
19
29
25
Marseille
47
30
29
51
38
28
11
26
82
72
76
41
Daylight, hours per day
Marrakech
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
11
10
Marseille
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Marrakech
8
8
8
9
10
11
11
10
9
8
8
7
Marseille
5
6
8
8
10
11
12
11
9
6
5
4

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Marrakech: 1991-2020 normals, Marrakech (5.1 km from centre). Marseille: 1991-2020 normals, Marseille / Marignane (20.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMarrakechMarseille
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
3 h 10 m
€85-123
RAK · 6 km
1 h 25 m
€110-119
MRS · 21 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 20 m
€140-172
RAK · 6 km
1 h 50 m
€65-134
1 stop
MRS · 21 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
3 h 30 m
€122-160
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
1 h 40 m
€86-123
1 stop
MRS · 21 km
NantesNTE
2 h 50 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
1 h 30 m
€72-162
MRS · 21 km
BordeauxBOD
2 h 35 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
MadridMAD
1 h 55 m
€64-110
RAK · 6 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
LisbonLIS
1 h 35 m
€64-110
RAK · 6 km
2 h 10 m
€136-184
1 stop
MRS · 21 km
AmsterdamAMS
3 h 40 m
€201-233
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
3 h 35 m
€144-224
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 25 m
€549-632
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
7 h 45 m
no fares
MRS · 21 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

MeasureMarrakechMarseille
Official languageArabic, Standard Moroccan TamazightFrench
CurrencyMoroccan Dirham (MAD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15112
Elevation465 m0 m
Main airportMarrakesh Menara Airport (RAK)6 km from centre118 non-stop destinationsMarseille Provence Airport (MRS)21 km from centre125 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureMarrakechMarseille
City population1,002,697886,040
People per km²4,3603,683
Museums within 10 km1427
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre5693
Swim season, months above 21 °C2 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. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.