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Marrakech or Philadelphia?

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

Your match

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Marrakech
50
match

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

Philadelphia
51
match

Wins on places to eat and nightlife with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

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

MarrakechPhiladelphia
Beaches & swimming. Marrakech and Philadelphia are level on 0.
MarrakechPhiladelphia
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km01
Coast distance134 km13 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Philadelphia leads by 23 points.23
MarrakechPhiladelphia
Score5477
Restaurants within 2 km of centre4611,714
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2635
Museums & heritage. Philadelphia leads by 16 points.16
MarrakechPhiladelphia
Score4460
Museums within 10 km2289
Museums within 2 km of centre1748
Share of museums within 2 km %7754
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Philadelphia leads by 22 points.22
MarrakechPhiladelphia
Score3759
Drinking venues within 4 km282930
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre161575
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5762
Nightclubs within 4 km3241
Nature & day trips. Marrakech leads by 3 points.3
MarrakechPhiladelphia
Score5249
Protected land share 50 km %14
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10089
Park area within 2 km47 hectares75 hectares
Good for families. Marrakech and Philadelphia are level on 53.
MarrakechPhiladelphia
Score5353
Tourist attractions within 2 km2816
Park area within 2 km47 hectares75 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km24
Sights concentration. Philadelphia leads by 8 points.8
MarrakechPhiladelphia
Score4654
Notable places within 2 km5588
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Marrakech leads by 43 points.43
MarrakechPhiladelphia
Score8643
Price level global39.8100
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Marrakech leads by 21 points.21
MarrakechPhiladelphia
Score8160
Monthly daytime high19.1 °C to 37.6 °C5.2 °C to 31 °C
Monthly rainfall1 mm to 36 mm69 mm to 112 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
Philadelphia
5
7
12
18
24
28
31
30
26
20
13
8
Rainfall, mm
Marrakech
26
27
36
28
9
3
1
3
14
19
29
25
Philadelphia
79
69
101
88
86
103
111
109
112
88
74
101
Daylight, hours per day
Marrakech
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
11
10
Philadelphia
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Marrakech
8
8
8
9
10
11
11
10
9
8
8
7
Philadelphia
4
5
6
7
9
9
8
9
7
7
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). Philadelphia: 1991-2020 normals, Philadelphia International Airport (11.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMarrakechPhiladelphia
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 20 m
€140-172
RAK · 6 km
7 h 20 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
3 h 10 m
€85-123
RAK · 6 km
7 h 40 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
3 h 30 m
€122-160
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
7 h 35 m
no fares
EWR · 117 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
3 h 10 m
€61-121
RAK · 6 km
8 h 25 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
ManchesterMAN
3 h 35 m
€124-167
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
7 h 0 m
no fares
JFK · 140 km
DublinDUB
3 h 30 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
6 h 50 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 25 m
€549-632
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
AtlantaATL, PDK
8 h 55 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
1 h 55 m
€60-108
PHL · 11 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 20 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
8 h 5 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
DohaDOH
7 h 30 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
13 h 30 m
no fares
PHL · 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

MeasureMarrakechPhiladelphia
Official languageArabic, Standard Moroccan Tamazight
CurrencyMoroccan Dirham (MAD)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCE50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15911
Elevation465 m12 m
Main airportMarrakesh Menara Airport (RAK)6 km from centre118 non-stop destinationsPhiladelphia International Airport (PHL)11 km from centre128 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureMarrakechPhiladelphia
City population1,002,6971,603,797
People per km²4,3604,339
Museums within 10 km1454
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre5675

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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. 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.