VacationSelector

Marrakech or Miami?

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 museums & heritage with your weighting.

Miami
✓ Best match
56
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips 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.

MarrakechMiami
Beaches & swimming. Miami leads by 95 points.95
MarrakechMiami
Score095
Swim season months012
Beaches 10 km020
Coast distance134 km1 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Miami leads by 11 points.11
MarrakechMiami
Score5465
Restaurants within 2 km of centre461898
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2629
Museums & heritage. Marrakech leads by 21 points.21
MarrakechMiami
Score4423
Museums within 10 km2228
Museums within 2 km of centre176
Share of museums within 2 km %7721
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Miami leads by 13 points.13
MarrakechMiami
Score3750
Drinking venues within 4 km282538
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre161287
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5753
Nightclubs within 4 km3263
Nature & day trips. Miami leads by 20 points.20
MarrakechMiami
Score5272
Protected land share 50 km %16
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10048
Park area within 2 km47 hectares50 hectares
Good for families. Marrakech leads by 9 points.9
MarrakechMiami
Score5344
Tourist attractions within 2 km2814
Park area within 2 km47 hectares50 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km22
Sights concentration. Marrakech leads by 4 points.4
MarrakechMiami
Score4642
Notable places within 2 km5545
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Marrakech leads by 43 points.43
MarrakechMiami
Score8643
Price level global39.8100
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Marrakech leads by 7 points.7
MarrakechMiami
Score8174
Monthly daytime high19.1 °C to 37.6 °C24.7 °C to 32.7 °C
Monthly rainfall1 mm to 36 mm47 mm to 267 mm
Dry months120
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
Miami
25
26
27
29
31
32
33
33
32
30
28
26
Sea temperature, °C
Marrakech
No coastline within reach
Miami
25
25
25
26
27
28
29
30
29
28
27
26
Rainfall, mm
Marrakech
26
27
36
28
9
3
1
3
14
19
29
25
Miami
47
55
63
85
157
267
186
242
259
193
90
62
Daylight, hours per day
Marrakech
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
11
10
Miami
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11
Sunshine, hours per day
Marrakech
8
8
8
9
10
11
11
10
9
8
8
7
Miami
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Marrakech: 1991-2020 normals, Marrakech (5.1 km from centre). Miami: 1991-2020 normals, Miami International Airport (10 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMarrakechMiami
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 20 m
€140-172
RAK · 6 km
9 h 0 m
€550-628
1 stop
MIA · 7 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
3 h 10 m
€85-123
RAK · 6 km
9 h 20 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
2 h 45 m
€205-247
MIA · 7 km
MadridMAD
1 h 55 m
€64-110
RAK · 6 km
9 h 0 m
€522-631
1 stop
MIA · 7 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
3 h 10 m
€61-121
RAK · 6 km
10 h 0 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
AtlantaATL, PDK
8 h 55 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
1 h 50 m
€97-175
MIA · 7 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 20 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
9 h 35 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
LisbonLIS
1 h 35 m
€64-110
RAK · 6 km
8 h 30 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
3 h 35 m
€144-224
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
9 h 50 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
DublinDUB
3 h 30 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
8 h 30 m
no fares
MIA · 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

MeasureMarrakechMiami
Official languageArabic, Standard Moroccan Tamazight
CurrencyMoroccan Dirham (MAD)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCE50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15911
Elevation465 m2 m
Main airportMarrakesh Menara Airport (RAK)6 km from centre118 non-stop destinationsMiami International Airport (MIA)7 km from centre199 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureMarrakechMiami
City population1,002,697442,241
People per km²4,3603,046
Museums within 10 km1417
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre5639
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. 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. 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.