VacationSelector

Marrakech or Monaco?

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

Your match

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Marrakech
50
match

Wins on nightlife and good for families with your weighting.

Monaco
48
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and sights concentration 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.

MarrakechMonaco
Beaches & swimming. Monaco leads by 73 points.73
MarrakechMonaco
Score073
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km050
Coast distance134 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Marrakech leads by 15 points.15
MarrakechMonaco
Score5439
Restaurants within 2 km of centre461269
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2616
Museums & heritage. Marrakech leads by 6 points.6
MarrakechMonaco
Score4438
Museums within 10 km2223
Museums within 2 km of centre178
Share of museums within 2 km %7735
Unesco sites within 50 km12
Nightlife. Marrakech leads by 29 points.29
MarrakechMonaco
Score378
Drinking venues within 4 km28269
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre16163
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5791
Nightclubs within 4 km327
Nature & day trips. Monaco leads by 1 points.1
MarrakechMonaco
Score5253
Protected land share 50 km %24
Landscape blanket share 50 km %017
Land share of disc %10054
Park area within 2 km47 hectares15 hectares
Good for families. Marrakech leads by 18 points.18
MarrakechMonaco
Score5335
Tourist attractions within 2 km2814
Park area within 2 km47 hectares15 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km23
Sights concentration. Monaco leads by 18 points.18
MarrakechMonaco
Score4664
Notable places within 2 km55154
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for moneyNo source publishes a price level for Monaco.
Year-round weather. Marrakech leads by 7 points.7
MarrakechMonaco
Score8174
Monthly daytime high19.1 °C to 37.6 °C13.3 °C to 27.9 °C
Monthly rainfall1 mm to 36 mm13 mm to 138 mm
Dry months123
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
Monaco
13
14
15
17
21
25
28
28
25
21
17
14
Sea temperature, °C
Marrakech
No coastline within reach
Monaco
14
13
14
15
18
21
24
25
22
20
17
15
Rainfall, mm
Marrakech
26
27
36
28
9
3
1
3
14
19
29
25
Monaco
74
53
51
69
42
34
13
18
84
124
138
91
Daylight, hours per day
Marrakech
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
11
10
Monaco
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
Monaco
5
6
7
7
9
10
11
11
8
6
5
5

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Marrakech: 1991-2020 normals, Marrakech (5.1 km from centre). Monaco: 1991-2020 normals, Nice (19.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMarrakechMonaco
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 20 m
€140-172
RAK · 6 km
1 h 55 m
€76-223
NCE · 18 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
3 h 10 m
€85-123
RAK · 6 km
1 h 30 m
€78-111
NCE · 18 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
3 h 30 m
€122-160
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
1 h 40 m
€155-228
1 stop
NCE · 18 km
BirminghamBHX
3 h 30 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
2 h 5 m
no fares
NCE · 18 km
ManchesterMAN
3 h 35 m
€124-167
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
NCE · 18 km
NantesNTE
2 h 50 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
1 h 35 m
€129-163
NCE · 18 km
BordeauxBOD
2 h 35 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
NCE · 18 km
RomeFCO, CIA
3 h 10 m
€115-186
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
1 h 10 m
€69-133
NCE · 18 km
BucharestOTP, BBU
4 h 30 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
2 h 25 m
€120-160
NCE · 18 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
8 h 10 m
€666-799
1 stop
NCE · 18 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

MeasureMarrakechMonaco
Official languageArabic, Standard Moroccan TamazightFrench
CurrencyMoroccan Dirham (MAD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE50 HzCEF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15112
Elevation465 m68 m
Main airportMarrakesh Menara Airport (RAK)6 km from centre118 non-stop destinationsNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)18 km from centre129 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureMarrakechMonaco
City population1,002,69738,857
People per km²4,36018,503
Museums within 10 km1414
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Distinct cuisines in the centre5629
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.