VacationSelector

Marrakech or New York?

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.

New York
✓ Best match
66
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 York
Beaches & swimming. New York leads by 64 points.64
MarrakechNew York
Score064
Swim season months03
Beaches 10 km017
Coast distance134 km1 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. New York leads by 41 points.41
MarrakechNew York
Score5495
Restaurants within 2 km of centre4616,032
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2638
Museums & heritage. New York leads by 16 points.16
MarrakechNew York
Score4460
Museums within 10 km22119
Museums within 2 km of centre1731
Share of museums within 2 km %7726
Unesco sites within 50 km12
Nightlife. New York leads by 52 points.52
MarrakechNew York
Score3789
Drinking venues within 4 km2824,159
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1612,015
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5748
Nightclubs within 4 km32192
Nature & day trips. Marrakech leads by 13 points.13
MarrakechNew York
Score5239
Protected land share 50 km %4
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10069
Park area within 2 km47 hectares134 hectares
Good for families. New York leads by 19 points.19
MarrakechNew York
Score5372
Tourist attractions within 2 km2837
Park area within 2 km47 hectares134 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km27
Sights concentration. New York leads by 28 points.28
MarrakechNew York
Score4674
Notable places within 2 km55268
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Marrakech leads by 43 points.43
MarrakechNew York
Score8643
Price level global39.8100
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Marrakech leads by 23 points.23
MarrakechNew York
Score8158
Monthly daytime high19.1 °C to 37.6 °C4.5 °C to 30.1 °C
Monthly rainfall1 mm to 36 mm74 mm to 112 mm
Dry months120
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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 York
5
6
10
16
22
27
30
29
25
19
13
7
Sea temperature, °C
Marrakech
No coastline within reach
New York
6
4
5
8
13
18
22
23
21
17
13
9
Rainfall, mm
Marrakech
26
27
36
28
9
3
1
3
14
19
29
25
New York
83
74
102
97
91
103
107
112
98
97
80
104
Daylight, hours per day
Marrakech
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
11
10
New York
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Marrakech
8
8
8
9
10
11
11
10
9
8
8
7
New York
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 York: 1991-2020 normals, LaGuardia Airport (12.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMarrakechNew York
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 20 m
€140-172
RAK · 6 km
7 h 10 m
€459-498
JFK · 21 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
3 h 10 m
€85-123
RAK · 6 km
7 h 30 m
€445-517
JFK · 21 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
3 h 10 m
€61-121
RAK · 6 km
8 h 15 m
€430-458
JFK · 21 km
MadridMAD
1 h 55 m
€64-110
RAK · 6 km
7 h 25 m
€474-553
1 stop
JFK · 21 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
3 h 30 m
€122-160
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
7 h 35 m
no fares
EWR · 14 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
3 h 35 m
€144-224
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
7 h 55 m
€439-457
1 stop
JFK · 21 km
ManchesterMAN
3 h 35 m
€124-167
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
7 h 0 m
no fares
JFK · 21 km
DublinDUB
3 h 30 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
6 h 40 m
€391-493
JFK · 21 km
AtlantaATL, PDK
8 h 55 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
2 h 5 m
€165-236
EWR · 14 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
5 h 25 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
11 h 25 m
€622-836
1 stop
JFK · 21 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 York
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 m25 m
Main airportMarrakesh Menara Airport (RAK)6 km from centre118 non-stop destinationsJohn F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK)21 km from centre188 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureMarrakechNew York
City population1,002,6978,804,190
People per km²4,3607,256
Museums within 10 km14157
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Distinct cuisines in the centre56132
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 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.