VacationSelector

Marrakech or Porto?

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 nature & day trips and value for money with your weighting.

Porto
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and museums & heritage 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.

MarrakechPorto
Beaches & swimming. Porto leads by 60 points.60
MarrakechPorto
Score060
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km052
Coast distance134 km4 km
Water distance3 km
Places to eat. Porto leads by 14 points.14
MarrakechPorto
Score5468
Restaurants within 2 km of centre4611,172
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2627
Museums & heritage. Porto leads by 27 points.27
MarrakechPorto
Score4471
Museums within 10 km22101
Museums within 2 km of centre1757
Share of museums within 2 km %7756
Unesco sites within 50 km13
Nightlife. Porto leads by 21 points.21
MarrakechPorto
Score3758
Drinking venues within 4 km282900
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre161570
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5763
Nightclubs within 4 km3238
Nature & day trips. Marrakech leads by 19 points.19
MarrakechPorto
Score5233
Protected land share 50 km %7
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10061
Park area within 2 km47 hectares30 hectares
Good for families. Porto leads by 12 points.12
MarrakechPorto
Score5365
Tourist attractions within 2 km28122
Park area within 2 km47 hectares30 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km21
Sights concentration. Porto leads by 8 points.8
MarrakechPorto
Score4654
Notable places within 2 km5585
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Marrakech leads by 12 points.12
MarrakechPorto
Score8674
Price level global39.855.9
Daily budget€109
Year-round weather. Marrakech leads by 10 points.10
MarrakechPorto
Score8171
Monthly daytime high19.1 °C to 37.6 °C13.8 °C to 25.2 °C
Monthly rainfall1 mm to 36 mm22 mm to 181 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
Porto
14
15
18
18
21
23
25
25
24
20
17
14
Sea temperature, °C
Marrakech
No coastline within reach
Porto
14
13
14
14
16
17
17
17
17
17
16
14
Rainfall, mm
Marrakech
26
27
36
28
9
3
1
3
14
19
29
25
Porto
151
97
104
99
89
35
22
33
75
158
181
173
Daylight, hours per day
Marrakech
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
11
10
Porto
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
Porto
5
5
7
8
9
9
10
9
8
5
5
4

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Marrakech: 1991-2020 normals, Marrakech (5.1 km from centre). Porto: 1991-2020 normals, Porto / Serra Do Pilar (2.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMarrakechPorto
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
3 h 10 m
€85-123
RAK · 6 km
2 h 5 m
€88-127
OPO · 12 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 20 m
€140-172
RAK · 6 km
2 h 10 m
€90-144
1 stop
OPO · 12 km
MadridMAD
1 h 55 m
€64-110
RAK · 6 km
1 h 10 m
€70-124
OPO · 12 km
LisbonLIS
1 h 35 m
€64-110
RAK · 6 km
1 h 0 m
€81
OPO · 12 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 20 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
1 h 45 m
€81-135
OPO · 12 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
3 h 30 m
€122-160
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
2 h 25 m
€90-185
1 stop
OPO · 12 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
3 h 10 m
€61-121
RAK · 6 km
2 h 25 m
€81-96
OPO · 12 km
GenevaGVA
3 h 5 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
2 h 10 m
€128-166
1 stop
OPO · 12 km
LyonLYS
2 h 55 m
€112-202
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
2 h 5 m
€108-127
1 stop
OPO · 12 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
6 h 55 m
no fares
OPO · 12 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

MeasureMarrakechPorto
Official languageArabic, Standard Moroccan TamazightPortuguese
CurrencyMoroccan Dirham (MAD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1UTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15112
Elevation465 m104 m
Main airportMarrakesh Menara Airport (RAK)6 km from centre118 non-stop destinationsFrancisco de Sá Carneiro Airport (OPO)12 km from centre132 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureMarrakechPorto
City population1,002,697231,800
People per km²4,3605,599
Museums within 10 km1442
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km13
Distinct cuisines in the centre5670
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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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.