VacationSelector

Marrakech or New Orleans?

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 nature & day trips with your weighting.

New Orleans
47
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nightlife 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.

MarrakechNew Orleans
Beaches & swimming. New Orleans leads by 39 points.39
MarrakechNew Orleans
Score039
Swim season months07
Beaches 10 km03
Coast distance134 km21 km
Water distance—17 km
Places to eat. New Orleans leads by 7 points.7
MarrakechNew Orleans
Score5461
Restaurants within 2 km of centre461803
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2625
Museums & heritage. New Orleans leads by 1 points.1
MarrakechNew Orleans
Score4445
Museums within 10 km2242
Museums within 2 km of centre1730
Share of museums within 2 km %7771
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. New Orleans leads by 17 points.17
MarrakechNew Orleans
Score3754
Drinking venues within 4 km282704
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre161495
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5770
Nightclubs within 4 km3241
Nature & day trips. Marrakech leads by 27 points.27
MarrakechNew Orleans
Score5225
Protected land share 50 km %—4
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10089
Park area within 2 km47 hectares43 hectares
Good for families. Marrakech leads by 7 points.7
MarrakechNew Orleans
Score5346
Tourist attractions within 2 km2822
Park area within 2 km47 hectares43 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km21
Sights concentration. Marrakech leads by 6 points.6
MarrakechNew Orleans
Score4640
Notable places within 2 km5540
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Marrakech leads by 43 points.43
MarrakechNew Orleans
Score8643
Price level global39.8100
Daily budget——
Year-round weather. Marrakech leads by 13 points.13
MarrakechNew Orleans
Score8168
Monthly daytime high19.1 °C to 37.6 °C17.1 °C to 33 °C
Monthly rainfall1 mm to 36 mm94 mm to 194 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
New Orleans
17
19
23
26
30
32
33
33
31
27
22
18
Sea temperature, °C
Marrakech
No coastline within reach
New Orleans
14
15
18
22
25
29
30
30
28
24
20
16
Rainfall, mm
Marrakech
26
27
36
28
9
3
1
3
14
19
29
25
New Orleans
132
104
111
132
143
194
169
180
128
94
98
123
Daylight, hours per day
Marrakech
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
11
10
New Orleans
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
12
11
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Marrakech
8
8
8
9
10
11
11
10
9
8
8
7
New Orleans
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). New Orleans: 1991-2020 normals, New Orleans Airport (2.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMarrakechNew Orleans
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 20 m
€140-172
RAK · 6 km
9 h 25 m
no fares
MSY · 18 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
2 h 55 m
€254-325
1 stop
MSY · 18 km
AtlantaATL, PDK
8 h 55 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
1 h 30 m
€106-150
1 stop
MSY · 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

MeasureMarrakechNew Orleans
Official languageArabic, Standard Moroccan Tamazight–
CurrencyMoroccan Dirham (MAD)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCE50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1UTC-6, UTC-5 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15911
Elevation465 m-2 m
Main airportMarrakesh Menara Airport (RAK)6 km from centre118 non-stop destinationsLouis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport (MSY)18 km from centre50 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureMarrakechNew Orleans
City population1,002,697383,997
People per km²4,360423
Museums within 10 km1416
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre5639
Swim season, months above 21 °C–7 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.