VacationSelector

Marrakech or Montpellier?

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

Your match

Marrakech
✓ Best match
50
match

Wins on value for money and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Montpellier
47
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.

MarrakechMontpellier
Beaches & swimming. Montpellier leads by 32 points.32
MarrakechMontpellier
Score032
Swim season months02
Beaches 10 km08
Coast distance134 km9 km
Water distance9 km
Places to eat. Montpellier leads by 11 points.11
MarrakechMontpellier
Score5465
Restaurants within 2 km of centre461737
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2634
Museums & heritage. Marrakech leads by 18 points.18
MarrakechMontpellier
Score4426
Museums within 10 km2214
Museums within 2 km of centre173
Share of museums within 2 km %7721
Unesco sites within 50 km12
Nightlife. Montpellier leads by 1 points.1
MarrakechMontpellier
Score3738
Drinking venues within 4 km282318
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre161265
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5783
Nightclubs within 4 km3225
Nature & day trips. Marrakech leads by 9 points.9
MarrakechMontpellier
Score5243
Protected land share 50 km %15
Landscape blanket share 50 km %010
Land share of disc %10070
Park area within 2 km47 hectares55 hectares
Good for families. Marrakech leads by 9 points.9
MarrakechMontpellier
Score5344
Tourist attractions within 2 km288
Park area within 2 km47 hectares55 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km27
Sights concentration. Marrakech leads by 8 points.8
MarrakechMontpellier
Score4638
Notable places within 2 km5535
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Marrakech leads by 24 points.24
MarrakechMontpellier
Score8662
Price level global39.873.7
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Marrakech leads by 7 points.7
MarrakechMontpellier
Score8174
Monthly daytime high19.1 °C to 37.6 °C12 °C to 29.6 °C
Monthly rainfall1 mm to 36 mm17 mm to 93 mm
Dry months125
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
Montpellier
12
13
16
19
23
27
30
29
25
21
16
13
Sea temperature, °C
Marrakech
No coastline within reach
Montpellier
12
12
12
14
16
19
21
22
20
18
16
14
Rainfall, mm
Marrakech
26
27
36
28
9
3
1
3
14
19
29
25
Montpellier
56
35
39
56
46
33
17
36
88
93
78
59
Daylight, hours per day
Marrakech
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
11
10
Montpellier
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
Montpellier
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
10
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). Montpellier: 1991-2020 normals, Montpellier (7.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMarrakechMontpellier
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
3 h 10 m
€85-123
RAK · 6 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
MPL · 8 km
BordeauxBOD
2 h 35 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 20 m
€140-172
RAK · 6 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
MPL · 8 km
MadridMAD
1 h 55 m
€64-110
RAK · 6 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
LisbonLIS
1 h 35 m
€64-110
RAK · 6 km
2 h 10 m
€136-184
1 stop
MRS · 109 km
NantesNTE
2 h 50 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
MPL · 8 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
3 h 35 m
€144-224
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
3 h 30 m
€122-160
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
FNI · 46 km
MunichMUC
3 h 35 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 25 m
€549-632
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
7 h 45 m
no fares
MRS · 109 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

MeasureMarrakechMontpellier
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 m7 m
Main airportMarrakesh Menara Airport (RAK)6 km from centre118 non-stop destinationsMontpellier-Méditerranée Airport (MPL)8 km from centre36 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureMarrakechMontpellier
City population1,002,697310,240
People per km²4,3605,452
Museums within 10 km1414
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Distinct cuisines in the centre5665
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.