VacationSelector

Marrakech or Nice?

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 good for families with your weighting.

Nice
✓ Best match
56
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.

MarrakechNice
Beaches & swimming. Nice leads by 73 points.73
MarrakechNice
Score073
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km070
Coast distance134 km1 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Nice leads by 15 points.15
MarrakechNice
Score5469
Restaurants within 2 km of centre4611,231
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2628
Museums & heritage. Nice leads by 2 points.2
MarrakechNice
Score4446
Museums within 10 km2227
Museums within 2 km of centre1714
Share of museums within 2 km %7752
Unesco sites within 50 km12
Nightlife. Nice leads by 7 points.7
MarrakechNice
Score3744
Drinking venues within 4 km282428
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre161388
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5791
Nightclubs within 4 km3226
Nature & day trips. Nice leads by 5 points.5
MarrakechNice
Score5257
Protected land share 50 km %24
Landscape blanket share 50 km %020
Land share of disc %10062
Park area within 2 km47 hectares56 hectares
Good for families. Marrakech leads by 23 points.23
MarrakechNice
Score5330
Tourist attractions within 2 km284
Park area within 2 km47 hectares56 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km23
Sights concentration. Nice leads by 1 points.1
MarrakechNice
Score4647
Notable places within 2 km5560
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Marrakech leads by 24 points.24
MarrakechNice
Score8662
Price level global39.873.7
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Marrakech leads by 7 points.7
MarrakechNice
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
Nice
13
14
15
17
21
25
28
28
25
21
17
14
Sea temperature, °C
Marrakech
No coastline within reach
Nice
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
Nice
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
Nice
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
Nice
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). Nice: 1991-2020 normals, Nice (8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMarrakechNice
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
3 h 10 m
€85-123
RAK · 6 km
1 h 30 m
€78-111
NCE · 6 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 20 m
€140-172
RAK · 6 km
1 h 55 m
€76-223
NCE · 6 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
3 h 30 m
€122-160
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
1 h 40 m
€155-228
1 stop
NCE · 6 km
NantesNTE
2 h 50 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
1 h 35 m
€129-163
NCE · 6 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 20 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
1 h 15 m
€83-135
NCE · 6 km
RomeFCO, CIA
3 h 10 m
€115-186
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
1 h 10 m
€69-133
NCE · 6 km
BordeauxBOD
2 h 35 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
NCE · 6 km
AmsterdamAMS
3 h 40 m
€201-233
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
1 h 50 m
€170-248
NCE · 6 km
LilleLIL
3 h 20 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
1 h 40 m
€162-220
NCE · 6 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 25 m
€549-632
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
7 h 55 m
no fares
NCE · 6 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

MeasureMarrakechNice
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 m0 m
Main airportMarrakesh Menara Airport (RAK)6 km from centre118 non-stop destinationsNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)6 km from centre129 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureMarrakechNice
City population1,002,697357,737
People per km²4,3604,975
Museums within 10 km1416
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Distinct cuisines in the centre5665
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. 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.