VacationSelector

Marrakech or Paphos?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Marrakech
✓ Best match
50
match

Wins on nature & day trips and sights concentration with your weighting.

Paphos
46
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and year-round weather 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.

MarrakechPaphos
Beaches & swimming. Paphos leads by 79 points.79
MarrakechPaphos
Score079
Swim season months06
Beaches 10 km027
Coast distance134 km1 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Marrakech leads by 10 points.10
MarrakechPaphos
Score5444
Restaurants within 2 km of centre461251
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2622
Museums & heritage. Marrakech leads by 22 points.22
MarrakechPaphos
Score4422
Museums within 10 km228
Museums within 2 km of centre173
Share of museums within 2 km %7738
Unesco sites within 50 km12
Nightlife. Marrakech leads by 7 points.7
MarrakechPaphos
Score3730
Drinking venues within 4 km282224
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre161161
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5772
Nightclubs within 4 km3211
Nature & day trips. Marrakech leads by 29 points.29
MarrakechPaphos
Score5223
Protected land share 50 km %2
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10033
Park area within 2 km47 hectares27 hectares
Good for families. Marrakech leads by 11 points.11
MarrakechPaphos
Score5342
Tourist attractions within 2 km2830
Park area within 2 km47 hectares27 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km20
Sights concentration. Marrakech leads by 27 points.27
MarrakechPaphos
Score4619
Notable places within 2 km5512
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Marrakech leads by 16 points.16
MarrakechPaphos
Score8670
Price level global39.861.4
Daily budget€129
Year-round weather. Paphos leads by 5 points.5
MarrakechPaphos
Score8186
Monthly daytime high19.1 °C to 37.6 °C17 °C to 30.8 °C
Monthly rainfall1 mm to 36 mm0 mm to 98 mm
Dry months128
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
Paphos
17
17
19
21
25
28
30
31
29
27
23
19
Sea temperature, °C
Marrakech
No coastline within reach
Paphos
17
17
17
18
21
24
27
28
27
25
22
19
Rainfall, mm
Marrakech
26
27
36
28
9
3
1
3
14
19
29
25
Paphos
81
47
29
17
10
2
1
0
5
14
42
98
Daylight, hours per day
Marrakech
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
11
10
Paphos
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
Paphos
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). Paphos: 1991-2020 normals, Paphos Airport (8.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMarrakechPaphos
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 20 m
€140-172
RAK · 6 km
4 h 25 m
€125-167
PFO · 8 km
ManchesterMAN
3 h 35 m
€124-167
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
4 h 40 m
no fares
PFO · 8 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
3 h 10 m
€85-123
RAK · 6 km
4 h 5 m
€197-331
1 stop
PFO · 8 km
BirminghamBHX
3 h 30 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
4 h 35 m
no fares
PFO · 8 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
5 h 25 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
1 h 5 m
€149-173
PFO · 8 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
3 h 30 m
€122-160
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
4 h 5 m
€176-392
2 stops
PFO · 8 km
BristolBRS
3 h 20 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
4 h 35 m
no fares
PFO · 8 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
3 h 10 m
€61-121
RAK · 6 km
3 h 25 m
€125-152
1 stop
PFO · 8 km
NewcastleNCL
3 h 45 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
4 h 45 m
no fares
PFO · 8 km
SofiaSOF
4 h 15 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
2 h 5 m
€186-300
1 stop
PFO · 8 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

MeasureMarrakechPaphos
Official languageArabic, Standard Moroccan TamazightTurkish, Greek, Modern Greek
CurrencyMoroccan Dirham (MAD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE50 HzG240 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1UTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15112
Elevation465 m72 m
Main airportMarrakesh Menara Airport (RAK)6 km from centre118 non-stop destinationsPaphos International Airport (PFO)8 km from centre57 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days17 days

By the numbers

MeasureMarrakechPaphos
City population1,002,69735,961
People per km²4,3601,987
Museums within 10 km144
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Distinct cuisines in the centre5636
Swim season, months above 21 °C6 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.