VacationSelector

Marrakech or Milan?

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 year-round weather with your weighting.

Milan
✓ Best match
63
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.

MarrakechMilan
Beaches & swimming. Marrakech and Milan are level on 0.
MarrakechMilan
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km04
Coast distance134 km120 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Milan leads by 16 points.16
MarrakechMilan
Score5470
Restaurants within 2 km of centre4611,991
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2620
Museums & heritage. Milan leads by 30 points.30
MarrakechMilan
Score4474
Museums within 10 km2287
Museums within 2 km of centre1755
Share of museums within 2 km %7763
Unesco sites within 50 km14
Nightlife. Milan leads by 38 points.38
MarrakechMilan
Score3775
Drinking venues within 4 km2822,215
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre161961
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5743
Nightclubs within 4 km3270
Nature & day trips. Milan leads by 13 points.13
MarrakechMilan
Score5265
Protected land share 50 km %30
Landscape blanket share 50 km %011
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km47 hectares102 hectares
Good for families. Milan leads by 24 points.24
MarrakechMilan
Score5377
Tourist attractions within 2 km2876
Park area within 2 km47 hectares102 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km25
Sights concentration. Milan leads by 28 points.28
MarrakechMilan
Score4674
Notable places within 2 km55266
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Marrakech leads by 18 points.18
MarrakechMilan
Score8668
Price level global39.864.9
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Marrakech leads by 17 points.17
MarrakechMilan
Score8164
Monthly daytime high19.1 °C to 37.6 °C7 °C to 28.6 °C
Monthly rainfall1 mm to 36 mm44 mm to 127 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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F
M
A
M
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J
A
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D
Daytime high, °C
Marrakech
19
21
24
26
30
34
38
37
33
29
23
20
Milan
7
10
15
17
23
26
29
28
24
18
11
7
Rainfall, mm
Marrakech
26
27
36
28
9
3
1
3
14
19
29
25
Milan
54
44
50
78
102
75
57
83
116
113
127
49
Daylight, hours per day
Marrakech
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
11
10
Milan
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Marrakech
8
8
8
9
10
11
11
10
9
8
8
7
Milan
3
4
5
6
7
7
9
8
5
4
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Marrakech: 1991-2020 normals, Marrakech (5.1 km from centre). Milan: 1991-2020 normals, Novara / Cameri (41.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMarrakechMilan
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 20 m
€140-172
RAK · 6 km
1 h 45 m
€48-103
MXP · 40 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
3 h 10 m
€85-123
RAK · 6 km
1 h 20 m
€46-63
MXP · 40 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 20 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
1 h 30 m
€34-53
MXP · 40 km
MadridMAD
1 h 55 m
€64-110
RAK · 6 km
2 h 0 m
€63-91
MXP · 40 km
RomeFCO, CIA
3 h 10 m
€115-186
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
1 h 15 m
€116-135
LIN · 7 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
3 h 30 m
€122-160
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
1 h 30 m
€58-138
LIN · 7 km
LisbonLIS
1 h 35 m
€64-110
RAK · 6 km
2 h 35 m
€78-142
MXP · 40 km
ManchesterMAN
3 h 35 m
€124-167
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
MXP · 40 km
AmsterdamAMS
3 h 40 m
€201-233
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
1 h 40 m
€129-158
LIN · 7 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
8 h 15 m
€542-635
1 stop
MXP · 40 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

MeasureMarrakechMilan
Official languageArabic, Standard Moroccan TamazightItalian
CurrencyMoroccan Dirham (MAD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15112
Elevation465 m138 m
Main airportMarrakesh Menara Airport (RAK)6 km from centre118 non-stop destinationsMilan Malpensa International Airport (MXP)40 km from centre203 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureMarrakechMilan
City population1,002,6971,354,196
People per km²4,3607,453
Museums within 10 km1487
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km14
Distinct cuisines in the centre5679

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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. 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.