VacationSelector

Marrakech or Paris?

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 year-round weather with your weighting.

Paris
✓ Best match
67
match

Wins on nightlife 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.

MarrakechParis
Beaches & swimming. Marrakech and Paris are level on 0.
MarrakechParis
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km02
Coast distance134 km149 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Paris leads by 36 points.36
MarrakechParis
Score5490
Restaurants within 2 km of centre4614,732
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2633
Museums & heritage. Paris leads by 32 points.32
MarrakechParis
Score4476
Museums within 10 km22185
Museums within 2 km of centre1765
Share of museums within 2 km %7735
Unesco sites within 50 km14
Nightlife. Paris leads by 51 points.51
MarrakechParis
Score3788
Drinking venues within 4 km2823,796
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1611,694
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5745
Nightclubs within 4 km32201
Nature & day trips. Marrakech leads by 4 points.4
MarrakechParis
Score5248
Protected land share 50 km %28
Landscape blanket share 50 km %026
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km47 hectares82 hectares
Good for families. Paris leads by 22 points.22
MarrakechParis
Score5375
Tourist attractions within 2 km2889
Park area within 2 km47 hectares82 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km23
Sights concentration. Paris leads by 48 points.48
MarrakechParis
Score4694
Notable places within 2 km55865
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Marrakech leads by 24 points.24
MarrakechParis
Score8662
Price level global39.873.7
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Marrakech leads by 15 points.15
MarrakechParis
Score8166
Monthly daytime high19.1 °C to 37.6 °C7.8 °C to 26 °C
Monthly rainfall1 mm to 36 mm38 mm to 75 mm
Dry months121
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
Paris
8
9
13
17
20
24
26
26
22
17
11
8
Rainfall, mm
Marrakech
26
27
36
28
9
3
1
3
14
19
29
25
Paris
45
38
41
45
75
51
58
54
51
55
54
62
Daylight, hours per day
Marrakech
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
11
10
Paris
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Marrakech
8
8
8
9
10
11
11
10
9
8
8
7
Paris
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). Paris: 1991-2020 normals, Paris-Montsouris (4.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMarrakechParis
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 20 m
€140-172
RAK · 6 km
1 h 5 m
€63-103
CDG · 22 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
3 h 10 m
€61-121
RAK · 6 km
1 h 20 m
€61-89
CDG · 22 km
NiceNCE
2 h 55 m
€174-200
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
1 h 30 m
€86-132
ORY · 14 km
MadridMAD
1 h 55 m
€64-110
RAK · 6 km
1 h 55 m
€107-141
ORY · 14 km
LisbonLIS
1 h 35 m
€64-110
RAK · 6 km
2 h 20 m
€138-242
ORY · 14 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 20 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
1 h 40 m
€110-135
CDG · 22 km
ToulouseTLS
2 h 30 m
€128-233
RAK · 6 km
1 h 20 m
€84-111
ORY · 14 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
7 h 30 m
€579-648
1 stop
CDG · 22 km
ManchesterMAN
3 h 35 m
€124-167
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
1 h 20 m
€108-163
CDG · 22 km
BordeauxBOD
2 h 35 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
CDG · 22 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

MeasureMarrakechParis
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 m27 m
Main airportMarrakesh Menara Airport (RAK)6 km from centre118 non-stop destinationsCharles de Gaulle International Airport (CDG)22 km from centre277 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureMarrakechParis
City population1,002,6972,103,778
People per km²4,36019,960
Museums within 10 km14251
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km14
Distinct cuisines in the centre56169

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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. 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.