VacationSelector

Marrakech or Riga?

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

Riga
✓ Best match
53
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.

MarrakechRiga
Beaches & swimming. Riga leads by 40 points.40
MarrakechRiga
Score040
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km057
Coast distance134 km12 km
Water distance12 km
Places to eat. Riga leads by 5 points.5
MarrakechRiga
Score5459
Restaurants within 2 km of centre461470
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2633
Museums & heritage. Riga leads by 17 points.17
MarrakechRiga
Score4461
Museums within 10 km2269
Museums within 2 km of centre1747
Share of museums within 2 km %7768
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Riga leads by 14 points.14
MarrakechRiga
Score3751
Drinking venues within 4 km282584
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre161456
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5778
Nightclubs within 4 km3254
Nature & day trips. Marrakech leads by 8 points.8
MarrakechRiga
Score5244
Protected land share 50 km %10
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10073
Park area within 2 km47 hectares68 hectares
Good for families. Marrakech leads by 18 points.18
MarrakechRiga
Score5335
Tourist attractions within 2 km287
Park area within 2 km47 hectares68 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km21
Sights concentration. Riga leads by 16 points.16
MarrakechRiga
Score4662
Notable places within 2 km55137
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Marrakech leads by 10 points.10
MarrakechRiga
Score8676
Price level global39.853.7
Daily budget€132
Year-round weather. Marrakech leads by 29 points.29
MarrakechRiga
Score8152
Monthly daytime high19.1 °C to 37.6 °C-0.1 °C to 23.5 °C
Monthly rainfall1 mm to 36 mm33 mm to 87 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
Riga
0
0
4
12
17
21
24
22
17
11
5
1
Sea temperature, °C
Marrakech
No coastline within reach
Riga
2
1
1
3
9
14
18
19
16
11
8
5
Rainfall, mm
Marrakech
26
27
36
28
9
3
1
3
14
19
29
25
Riga
43
40
35
33
52
69
87
78
65
82
58
50
Daylight, hours per day
Marrakech
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
11
10
Riga
8
9
12
14
17
18
17
15
13
10
8
7
Sunshine, hours per day
Marrakech
8
8
8
9
10
11
11
10
9
8
8
7
Riga
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). Riga: 1991-2020 normals, Riga (4.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMarrakechRiga
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 20 m
€140-172
RAK · 6 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
3 h 10 m
€85-123
RAK · 6 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
5 h 0 m
€136-201
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
HelsinkiHEL
5 h 25 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
1 h 5 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
3 h 35 m
€144-224
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
3 h 30 m
€122-160
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
3 h 10 m
€61-121
RAK · 6 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
BerlinBER
4 h 5 m
€180-258
2 stops
RAK · 6 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
OsloOSL, TRF
4 h 45 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
Sharm el SheikhSSH
5 h 30 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
4 h 35 m
no fares
RIX · 9 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

MeasureMarrakechRiga
Official languageArabic, Standard Moroccan TamazightLatvian
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 m6 m
Main airportMarrakesh Menara Airport (RAK)6 km from centre118 non-stop destinationsRiga International Airport (RIX)9 km from centre101 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days

By the numbers

MeasureMarrakechRiga
City population1,002,697588,911
People per km²4,360
Museums within 10 km1412
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre5655
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.