VacationSelector

Marrakech or Oslo?

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 year-round weather and value for money with your weighting.

Oslo
✓ Best match
56
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and sights concentration with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

MarrakechOslo
Beaches & swimming. Oslo leads by 60 points.60
MarrakechOslo
Score060
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km0163
Coast distance134 km1 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Oslo leads by 13 points.13
MarrakechOslo
Score5467
Restaurants within 2 km of centre461853
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2634
Museums & heritage. Oslo leads by 4 points.4
MarrakechOslo
Score4448
Museums within 10 km2270
Museums within 2 km of centre1737
Share of museums within 2 km %7753
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Oslo leads by 16 points.16
MarrakechOslo
Score3753
Drinking venues within 4 km282695
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre161562
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5781
Nightclubs within 4 km3241
Nature & day trips. Oslo leads by 9 points.9
MarrakechOslo
Score5261
Protected land share 50 km %22
Landscape blanket share 50 km %01
Land share of disc %10094
Park area within 2 km47 hectares88 hectares
Good for families. Marrakech leads by 5 points.5
MarrakechOslo
Score5348
Tourist attractions within 2 km2813
Park area within 2 km47 hectares88 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km22
Sights concentration. Oslo leads by 23 points.23
MarrakechOslo
Score4669
Notable places within 2 km55207
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Marrakech leads by 32 points.32
MarrakechOslo
Score8654
Price level global39.885.1
Daily budget€203
Year-round weather. Marrakech leads by 33 points.33
MarrakechOslo
Score8148
Monthly daytime high19.1 °C to 37.6 °C0.1 °C to 22.7 °C
Monthly rainfall1 mm to 36 mm40 mm to 104 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
Oslo
0
1
5
11
17
20
23
21
16
10
4
1
Sea temperature, °C
Marrakech
No coastline within reach
Oslo
4
3
3
6
11
15
18
18
15
12
9
6
Rainfall, mm
Marrakech
26
27
36
28
9
3
1
3
14
19
29
25
Oslo
58
46
40
48
60
80
86
104
81
94
84
54
Daylight, hours per day
Marrakech
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
11
10
Oslo
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Sunshine, hours per day
Marrakech
8
8
8
9
10
11
11
10
9
8
8
7
Oslo
2
3
5
6
8
8
8
7
5
3
2
1

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Marrakech: 1991-2020 normals, Marrakech (5.1 km from centre). Oslo: 1991-2020 normals, Oslo-Blindern (4.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMarrakechOslo
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 20 m
€140-172
RAK · 6 km
2 h 5 m
€46-96
OSL · 37 km
CopenhagenCPH
4 h 20 m
€165-220
2 stops
RAK · 6 km
1 h 15 m
€92-109
OSL · 37 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
3 h 10 m
€85-123
RAK · 6 km
2 h 15 m
€145-204
1 stop
OSL · 37 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
5 h 0 m
€136-201
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
1 h 5 m
€83-98
OSL · 37 km
AmsterdamAMS
3 h 40 m
€201-233
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
1 h 50 m
€162-207
OSL · 37 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
3 h 30 m
€122-160
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
OSL · 37 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
3 h 35 m
€144-224
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
2 h 0 m
€163-249
1 stop
OSL · 37 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
3 h 10 m
€61-121
RAK · 6 km
2 h 35 m
€78-91
1 stop
OSL · 37 km
DohaDOH
7 h 30 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
6 h 30 m
no fares
OSL · 37 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
7 h 40 m
no fares
OSL · 37 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

MeasureMarrakechOslo
Official languageArabic, Standard Moroccan TamazightNorwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, Sámi
CurrencyMoroccan Dirham (MAD)Norwegian Krone (NOK)
SocketsCE50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15Police 112, ambulance 113, fire 110
Elevation465 m23 m
Main airportMarrakesh Menara Airport (RAK)6 km from centre118 non-stop destinationsOslo-Gardermoen International Airport (OSL)37 km from centre58 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureMarrakechOslo
City population1,002,697717,710
People per km²4,360
Museums within 10 km1460
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre5675
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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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. 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.