VacationSelector

Marrakech or Palermo?

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 nature & day trips with your weighting.

Palermo
✓ Best match
55
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.

MarrakechPalermo
Beaches & swimming. Palermo leads by 67 points.67
MarrakechPalermo
Score067
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km013
Coast distance134 km1 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Marrakech leads by 4 points.4
MarrakechPalermo
Score5450
Restaurants within 2 km of centre461807
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2613
Museums & heritage. Palermo leads by 6 points.6
MarrakechPalermo
Score4450
Museums within 10 km2232
Museums within 2 km of centre1726
Share of museums within 2 km %7781
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Palermo leads by 16 points.16
MarrakechPalermo
Score3753
Drinking venues within 4 km282799
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre161515
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5764
Nightclubs within 4 km3216
Nature & day trips. Marrakech leads by 16 points.16
MarrakechPalermo
Score5236
Protected land share 50 km %4
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10045
Park area within 2 km47 hectares63 hectares
Good for families. Marrakech leads by 12 points.12
MarrakechPalermo
Score5341
Tourist attractions within 2 km2816
Park area within 2 km47 hectares63 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km20
Sights concentration. Palermo leads by 11 points.11
MarrakechPalermo
Score4657
Notable places within 2 km55104
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Marrakech leads by 18 points.18
MarrakechPalermo
Score8668
Price level global39.864.9
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Marrakech leads by 4 points.4
MarrakechPalermo
Score8177
Monthly daytime high19.1 °C to 37.6 °C12.6 °C to 27.8 °C
Monthly rainfall1 mm to 36 mm4 mm to 71 mm
Dry months127
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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
Palermo
13
13
14
16
20
24
28
28
25
21
17
14
Sea temperature, °C
Marrakech
No coastline within reach
Palermo
15
14
15
16
19
22
26
27
25
23
20
17
Rainfall, mm
Marrakech
26
27
36
28
9
3
1
3
14
19
29
25
Palermo
48
45
35
35
18
9
4
11
37
67
71
69
Daylight, hours per day
Marrakech
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
11
10
Palermo
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Marrakech
8
8
8
9
10
11
11
10
9
8
8
7
Palermo
4
5
6
7
9
10
11
10
8
7
5
4

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Marrakech: 1991-2020 normals, Marrakech (5.1 km from centre). Palermo: 1961-1990 normals, Ustica (66.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMarrakechPalermo
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
3 h 10 m
€61-121
RAK · 6 km
1 h 45 m
€31-110
PMO · 25 km
RomeFCO, CIA
3 h 10 m
€115-186
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
1 h 10 m
€40-52
PMO · 25 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 20 m
€140-172
RAK · 6 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
PMO · 25 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
3 h 10 m
€85-123
RAK · 6 km
2 h 25 m
€101-135
PMO · 25 km
NaplesNAP
3 h 20 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
1 h 0 m
€42-84
PMO · 25 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
3 h 30 m
€122-160
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
2 h 30 m
€106-165
1 stop
PMO · 25 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 20 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
1 h 50 m
€49-107
PMO · 25 km
LyonLYS
2 h 55 m
€112-202
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
PMO · 25 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
5 h 25 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
3 h 10 m
€151-346
1 stop
PMO · 25 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
9 h 5 m
no fares
PMO · 25 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

MeasureMarrakechPalermo
Official languageArabic, Standard Moroccan TamazightItalian
CurrencyMoroccan Dirham (MAD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15112
Elevation465 m14 m
Main airportMarrakesh Menara Airport (RAK)6 km from centre118 non-stop destinationsFalcone–Borsellino Airport (PMO)25 km from centre103 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureMarrakechPalermo
City population1,002,697630,167
People per km²4,3603,924
Museums within 10 km1442
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre5633
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. 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.