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Marrakech or Portland?

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 value for money and good for families with your weighting.

Portland
42
match

Wins on nightlife and places to eat 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.

MarrakechPortland
Beaches & swimming. Marrakech and Portland are level on 0.
MarrakechPortland
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km027
Coast distance134 km69 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Portland leads by 20 points.20
MarrakechPortland
Score5474
Restaurants within 2 km of centre4611,011
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2644
Museums & heritage. Marrakech leads by 9 points.9
MarrakechPortland
Score4435
Museums within 10 km2223
Museums within 2 km of centre1715
Share of museums within 2 km %7765
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Portland leads by 21 points.21
MarrakechPortland
Score3758
Drinking venues within 4 km282942
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre161518
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5755
Nightclubs within 4 km3232
Nature & day trips. Marrakech leads by 17 points.17
MarrakechPortland
Score5235
Protected land share 50 km %13
Landscape blanket share 50 km %03
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km47 hectares37 hectares
Good for families. Marrakech leads by 19 points.19
MarrakechPortland
Score5334
Tourist attractions within 2 km288
Park area within 2 km47 hectares37 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km22
Sights concentration. Marrakech leads by 11 points.11
MarrakechPortland
Score4635
Notable places within 2 km5529
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Marrakech leads by 43 points.43
MarrakechPortland
Score8643
Price level global39.8100
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Marrakech leads by 16 points.16
MarrakechPortland
Score8165
Monthly daytime high19.1 °C to 37.6 °C7.9 °C to 27.7 °C
Monthly rainfall1 mm to 36 mm13 mm to 145 mm
Dry months123
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
Portland
8
11
13
16
20
23
27
28
25
18
12
8
Rainfall, mm
Marrakech
26
27
36
28
9
3
1
3
14
19
29
25
Portland
128
94
101
75
65
41
13
14
39
87
138
145
Daylight, hours per day
Marrakech
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
11
10
Portland
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Marrakech
8
8
8
9
10
11
11
10
9
8
8
7
Portland
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). Portland: 1991-2020 normals, Portland International Airport (9.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMarrakechPortland
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 20 m
€140-172
RAK · 6 km
9 h 55 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
5 h 20 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
3 h 35 m
€144-224
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
10 h 30 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
AmsterdamAMS
3 h 40 m
€201-233
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
10 h 5 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
AtlantaATL, PDK
8 h 55 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
4 h 45 m
no fares
PDX · 10 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

MeasureMarrakechPortland
Official languageArabic, Standard Moroccan Tamazight
CurrencyMoroccan Dirham (MAD)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCE50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1UTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15911
Elevation465 m152 m
Main airportMarrakesh Menara Airport (RAK)6 km from centre118 non-stop destinationsPortland International Airport (PDX)10 km from centre87 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureMarrakechPortland
City population1,002,697652,503
People per km²4,3601,736
Museums within 10 km1417
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre5682

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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.