VacationSelector

Marrakech or Osaka?

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 nature & day trips and year-round weather with your weighting.

Osaka
✓ Best match
65
match

Wins on nightlife and beaches & swimming 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.

MarrakechOsaka
Beaches & swimming. Osaka leads by 55 points.55
MarrakechOsaka
Score055
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km025
Coast distance134 km7 km
Water distance7 km
Places to eat. Osaka leads by 36 points.36
MarrakechOsaka
Score5490
Restaurants within 2 km of centre4619,134
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2625
Museums & heritage. Osaka leads by 20 points.20
MarrakechOsaka
Score4464
Museums within 10 km2278
Museums within 2 km of centre1722
Share of museums within 2 km %7728
Unesco sites within 50 km16
Nightlife. Osaka leads by 60 points.60
MarrakechOsaka
Score3797
Drinking venues within 4 km2828,473
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1614,492
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5753
Nightclubs within 4 km3297
Nature & day trips. Marrakech leads by 24 points.24
MarrakechOsaka
Score5228
Protected land share 50 km %1
Landscape blanket share 50 km %01
Land share of disc %10084
Park area within 2 km47 hectares88 hectares
Good for families. Osaka leads by 19 points.19
MarrakechOsaka
Score5372
Tourist attractions within 2 km2847
Park area within 2 km47 hectares88 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km27
Sights concentration. Osaka leads by 2 points.2
MarrakechOsaka
Score4648
Notable places within 2 km5563
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Marrakech leads by 16 points.16
MarrakechOsaka
Score8670
Price level global39.862.4
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Marrakech leads by 18 points.18
MarrakechOsaka
Score8163
Monthly daytime high19.1 °C to 37.6 °C9.7 °C to 33.6 °C
Monthly rainfall1 mm to 36 mm47 mm to 185 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
Osaka
10
11
14
20
25
28
32
34
30
24
18
12
Sea temperature, °C
Marrakech
No coastline within reach
Osaka
14
13
13
15
18
21
25
27
26
23
20
17
Rainfall, mm
Marrakech
26
27
36
28
9
3
1
3
14
19
29
25
Osaka
47
61
103
103
136
185
175
113
146
140
73
56
Daylight, hours per day
Marrakech
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
11
10
Osaka
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Marrakech
8
8
8
9
10
11
11
10
9
8
8
7
Osaka
5
5
6
6
7
5
6
7
5
5
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). Osaka: 1991-2020 normals, Osaka (1.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMarrakechOsaka
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
3 h 10 m
€85-123
RAK · 6 km
12 h 0 m
€859-891
3 stops
KIX · 38 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 20 m
€140-172
RAK · 6 km
11 h 50 m
no fares
ITM · 11 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
3 h 35 m
€144-224
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
11 h 30 m
€1,507-1966
2 stops
ITM · 11 km
DusseldorfDUS, NRN
3 h 35 m
€173-209
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
11 h 30 m
no fares
ITM · 11 km
AmsterdamAMS
3 h 40 m
€201-233
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
11 h 30 m
no fares
KIX · 38 km
RomeFCO, CIA
3 h 10 m
€115-186
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
12 h 5 m
no fares
ITM · 11 km
CopenhagenCPH
4 h 20 m
€165-220
2 stops
RAK · 6 km
10 h 45 m
no fares
ITM · 11 km
HamburgHAM, XFW, LBC
4 h 0 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
11 h 5 m
no fares
ITM · 11 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
13 h 45 m
no fares
ITM · 11 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

MeasureMarrakechOsaka
Official languageArabic, Standard Moroccan TamazightJapanese
CurrencyMoroccan Dirham (MAD)Yen (JPY)
SocketsCE50 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1UTC+9
Emergency numberPolice 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15Police 110, fire 119
Elevation465 m20 m
Main airportMarrakesh Menara Airport (RAK)6 km from centre118 non-stop destinationsKansai International Airport (KIX)38 km from centre62 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureMarrakechOsaka
City population1,002,6972,751,862
People per km²4,36012,340
Museums within 10 km1443
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km16
Distinct cuisines in the centre5697
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 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.