VacationSelector

Marrakech or Rome?

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

Rome
✓ Best match
72
match

Wins on sights concentration 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.

MarrakechRome
Beaches & swimming. Rome leads by 33 points.33
MarrakechRome
Score033
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km03
Coast distance134 km24 km
Water distance24 km
Places to eat. Rome leads by 6 points.6
MarrakechRome
Score5460
Restaurants within 2 km of centre4612,241
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2610
Museums & heritage. Rome leads by 40 points.40
MarrakechRome
Score4484
Museums within 10 km22161
Museums within 2 km of centre1779
Share of museums within 2 km %7749
Unesco sites within 50 km17
Nightlife. Rome leads by 37 points.37
MarrakechRome
Score3774
Drinking venues within 4 km2822,022
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre161912
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5745
Nightclubs within 4 km3285
Nature & day trips. Rome leads by 18 points.18
MarrakechRome
Score5270
Protected land share 50 km %19
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10078
Park area within 2 km47 hectares172 hectares
Good for families. Rome leads by 33 points.33
MarrakechRome
Score5386
Tourist attractions within 2 km28126
Park area within 2 km47 hectares172 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km24
Sights concentration. Rome leads by 53 points.53
MarrakechRome
Score4699
Notable places within 2 km551,125
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Marrakech leads by 18 points.18
MarrakechRome
Score8668
Price level global39.864.9
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Marrakech leads by 10 points.10
MarrakechRome
Score8171
Monthly daytime high19.1 °C to 37.6 °C12 °C to 31.4 °C
Monthly rainfall1 mm to 36 mm21 mm to 114 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
Rome
12
13
16
18
24
28
31
31
27
22
17
13
Sea temperature, °C
Marrakech
No coastline within reach
Rome
15
14
14
15
18
22
25
25
24
21
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Marrakech
26
27
36
28
9
3
1
3
14
19
29
25
Rome
67
69
57
75
62
33
21
38
70
97
114
103
Daylight, hours per day
Marrakech
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
11
10
Rome
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
Rome
4
5
6
7
9
10
11
11
8
6
4
4

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Marrakech: 1991-2020 normals, Marrakech (5.1 km from centre). Rome: 1991-2020 normals, Roma / Ciampino (15.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMarrakechRome
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
3 h 10 m
€85-123
RAK · 6 km
2 h 0 m
€91-122
FCO · 23 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 20 m
€140-172
RAK · 6 km
2 h 20 m
€76-143
1 stop
FCO · 23 km
MadridMAD
1 h 55 m
€64-110
RAK · 6 km
2 h 15 m
€98-119
FCO · 23 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 20 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
1 h 40 m
€44-74
FCO · 23 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
3 h 10 m
€61-121
RAK · 6 km
1 h 15 m
€84-118
FCO · 23 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
3 h 30 m
€122-160
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
2 h 5 m
€94-137
1 stop
FCO · 23 km
LisbonLIS
1 h 35 m
€64-110
RAK · 6 km
2 h 50 m
€91-168
FCO · 23 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
8 h 45 m
€446-597
FCO · 23 km
NiceNCE
2 h 55 m
€174-200
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
1 h 10 m
€102-119
FCO · 23 km
AmsterdamAMS
3 h 40 m
€201-233
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
2 h 10 m
€176-218
FCO · 23 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

MeasureMarrakechRome
Official languageArabic, Standard Moroccan TamazightItalian
CurrencyMoroccan Dirham (MAD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15112
Elevation465 m21 m
Main airportMarrakesh Menara Airport (RAK)6 km from centre118 non-stop destinationsRome–Fiumicino Leonardo da Vinci International Airport (FCO)23 km from centre230 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureMarrakechRome
City population1,002,6972,748,109
People per km²4,3602,135
Museums within 10 km14177
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km17
Distinct cuisines in the centre5665
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months

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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.