VacationSelector

Marrakech or Plovdiv?

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 good for families and year-round weather with your weighting.

Plovdiv
44
match

Wins on value for money 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.

MarrakechPlovdiv
Beaches & swimming. Marrakech and Plovdiv are level on 0.
MarrakechPlovdiv
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km01
Coast distance134 km130 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Marrakech leads by 8 points.8
MarrakechPlovdiv
Score5446
Restaurants within 2 km of centre461369
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2619
Museums & heritage. Marrakech leads by 6 points.6
MarrakechPlovdiv
Score4438
Museums within 10 km2226
Museums within 2 km of centre1726
Share of museums within 2 km %77100
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Plovdiv leads by 5 points.5
MarrakechPlovdiv
Score3742
Drinking venues within 4 km282392
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre161285
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5773
Nightclubs within 4 km3226
Nature & day trips. Marrakech leads by 15 points.15
MarrakechPlovdiv
Score5237
Protected land share 50 km %5
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km47 hectares125 hectares
Good for families. Marrakech leads by 22 points.22
MarrakechPlovdiv
Score5331
Tourist attractions within 2 km285
Park area within 2 km47 hectares125 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km20
Sights concentration. Marrakech leads by 5 points.5
MarrakechPlovdiv
Score4641
Notable places within 2 km5541
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Plovdiv leads by 13 points.13
MarrakechPlovdiv
Score8699
Price level global39.821.4
Daily budget€77
Year-round weather. Marrakech leads by 16 points.16
MarrakechPlovdiv
Score8165
Monthly daytime high19.1 °C to 37.6 °C5.4 °C to 31.1 °C
Monthly rainfall1 mm to 36 mm25 mm to 81 mm
Dry months122
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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M
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J
A
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D
Daytime high, °C
Marrakech
19
21
24
26
30
34
38
37
33
29
23
20
Plovdiv
5
9
14
19
24
28
31
31
26
19
13
7
Rainfall, mm
Marrakech
26
27
36
28
9
3
1
3
14
19
29
25
Plovdiv
65
63
61
53
67
62
40
25
48
66
59
81
Daylight, hours per day
Marrakech
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
11
10
Plovdiv
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Marrakech
8
8
8
9
10
11
11
10
9
8
8
7
Plovdiv
3
4
5
6
8
9
10
10
7
5
3
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Marrakech: 1991-2020 normals, Marrakech (5.1 km from centre). Plovdiv: 1997-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Plovdiv (1.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMarrakechPlovdiv
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 20 m
€140-172
RAK · 6 km
3 h 5 m
€70-85
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
3 h 10 m
€85-123
RAK · 6 km
2 h 45 m
€99-135
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
3 h 10 m
€61-121
RAK · 6 km
2 h 5 m
€56-159
SOF · 125 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
3 h 35 m
€144-224
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
2 h 20 m
€130-210
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
3 h 30 m
€122-160
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
2 h 40 m
€71-94
SOF · 125 km
ViennaVIE
3 h 55 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
1 h 35 m
€74-99
SOF · 125 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 20 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
2 h 45 m
€88-145
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
RomeFCO, CIA
3 h 10 m
€115-186
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
1 h 45 m
€55-68
SOF · 125 km
MadridMAD
1 h 55 m
€64-110
RAK · 6 km
3 h 20 m
€114-128
SOF · 125 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
5 h 25 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
2 h 30 m
€154-198
SOF · 125 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

MeasureMarrakechPlovdiv
Official languageArabic, Standard Moroccan TamazightBulgarian
CurrencyMoroccan Dirham (MAD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1UTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15112
Elevation465 m172 m
Main airportMarrakesh Menara Airport (RAK)6 km from centre118 non-stop destinationsPlovdiv International Airport (PDV)12 km from centre8 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureMarrakechPlovdiv
City population1,002,697333,994
People per km²4,3603,274
Museums within 10 km1418
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre5636

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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.