VacationSelector

Marrakech or Mexico City?

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 good for families with your weighting.

Mexico City
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on nightlife and museums & heritage with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

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

MarrakechMexico City
Beaches & swimming. Marrakech and Mexico City are level on 0.
MarrakechMexico City
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km04
Coast distance134 km247 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Mexico City leads by 12 points.12
MarrakechMexico City
Score5466
Restaurants within 2 km of centre4612,179
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2615
Museums & heritage. Mexico City leads by 35 points.35
MarrakechMexico City
Score4479
Museums within 10 km22138
Museums within 2 km of centre1765
Share of museums within 2 km %7747
Unesco sites within 50 km16
Nightlife. Mexico City leads by 41 points.41
MarrakechMexico City
Score3778
Drinking venues within 4 km2822,156
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre161926
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5743
Nightclubs within 4 km32198
Nature & day trips. Mexico City leads by 11 points.11
MarrakechMexico City
Score5263
Protected land share 50 km %30
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km47 hectares32 hectares
Good for families. Marrakech leads by 3 points.3
MarrakechMexico City
Score5350
Tourist attractions within 2 km2823
Park area within 2 km47 hectares32 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km24
Sights concentration. Mexico City leads by 8 points.8
MarrakechMexico City
Score4654
Notable places within 2 km5588
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Marrakech leads by 10 points.10
MarrakechMexico City
Score8676
Price level global39.854.2
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Mexico City leads by 9 points.9
MarrakechMexico City
Score8190
Monthly daytime high19.1 °C to 37.6 °C22.2 °C to 27.9 °C
Monthly rainfall1 mm to 36 mm3 mm to 186 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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A
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Daytime high, °C
Marrakech
19
21
24
26
30
34
38
37
33
29
23
20
Mexico City
22
25
26
28
27
26
25
25
24
23
23
22
Rainfall, mm
Marrakech
26
27
36
28
9
3
1
3
14
19
29
25
Mexico City
7
3
19
27
53
127
176
186
144
79
10
9
Daylight, hours per day
Marrakech
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
11
10
Mexico City
11
12
12
13
13
13
13
13
12
12
11
11
Sunshine, hours per day
Marrakech
8
8
8
9
10
11
11
10
9
8
8
7
Mexico City
8
8
9
8
8
6
6
6
5
6
7
7

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Marrakech: 1991-2020 normals, Marrakech (5.1 km from centre). Mexico City: 1991-2020 normals, Mexico Central, D. F. (7.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMarrakechMexico City
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 20 m
€140-172
RAK · 6 km
11 h 10 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
3 h 10 m
€85-123
RAK · 6 km
11 h 30 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 20 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
11 h 50 m
€883-934
2 stops
MEX · 7 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
4 h 40 m
€335-379
MEX · 7 km
MadridMAD
1 h 55 m
€64-110
RAK · 6 km
11 h 20 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
3 h 35 m
€144-224
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
11 h 55 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
AmsterdamAMS
3 h 40 m
€201-233
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
11 h 30 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
RomeFCO, CIA
3 h 10 m
€115-186
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
12 h 40 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 25 m
€549-632
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
5 h 0 m
no fares
MEX · 7 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

MeasureMarrakechMexico City
Official languageArabic, Standard Moroccan TamazightSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyMoroccan Dirham (MAD)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsCE50 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1UTC-6
Emergency numberPolice 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15911
Elevation465 m2,240 m
Main airportMarrakesh Menara Airport (RAK)6 km from centre118 non-stop destinationsMexico City Benito Juárez International Airport (MEX)7 km from centre95 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureMarrakechMexico City
City population1,002,6979,209,944
People per km²4,3606,202
Museums within 10 km14108
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km16
Distinct cuisines in the centre5650

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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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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.