VacationSelector

Marrakech or Rotterdam?

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.

Rotterdam
✓ Best match
54
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and places to eat with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

MarrakechRotterdam
Beaches & swimming. Rotterdam leads by 37 points.37
MarrakechRotterdam
Score037
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km022
Coast distance134 km24 km
Water distance24 km
Places to eat. Rotterdam leads by 18 points.18
MarrakechRotterdam
Score5472
Restaurants within 2 km of centre461862
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2646
Museums & heritage. Rotterdam leads by 16 points.16
MarrakechRotterdam
Score4460
Museums within 10 km2241
Museums within 2 km of centre1720
Share of museums within 2 km %7749
Unesco sites within 50 km15
Nightlife. Rotterdam leads by 12 points.12
MarrakechRotterdam
Score3749
Drinking venues within 4 km282542
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre161378
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5770
Nightclubs within 4 km3240
Nature & day trips. Marrakech leads by 10 points.10
MarrakechRotterdam
Score5242
Protected land share 50 km %10
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10079
Park area within 2 km47 hectares61 hectares
Good for families. Rotterdam leads by 9 points.9
MarrakechRotterdam
Score5362
Tourist attractions within 2 km2827
Park area within 2 km47 hectares61 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km28
Sights concentration. Rotterdam leads by 5 points.5
MarrakechRotterdam
Score4651
Notable places within 2 km5574
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Marrakech leads by 28 points.28
MarrakechRotterdam
Score8658
Price level global39.879.2
Daily budget€181
Year-round weather. Marrakech leads by 25 points.25
MarrakechRotterdam
Score8156
Monthly daytime high19.1 °C to 37.6 °C6.2 °C to 22.1 °C
Monthly rainfall1 mm to 36 mm42 mm to 85 mm
Dry months120
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
Rotterdam
6
7
10
14
17
20
22
22
19
15
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Marrakech
No coastline within reach
Rotterdam
6
5
6
9
12
15
18
19
18
15
11
8
Rainfall, mm
Marrakech
26
27
36
28
9
3
1
3
14
19
29
25
Rotterdam
71
63
58
42
59
71
85
84
78
81
80
84
Daylight, hours per day
Marrakech
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
11
10
Rotterdam
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Marrakech
8
8
8
9
10
11
11
10
9
8
8
7
Rotterdam
2
3
5
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Marrakech: 1991-2020 normals, Marrakech (5.1 km from centre). Rotterdam: 1993-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Rotterdam Airport Zestienhoven (3.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMarrakechRotterdam
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
3 h 10 m
€85-123
RAK · 6 km
1 h 10 m
€178-300
AMS · 47 km
MadridMAD
1 h 55 m
€64-110
RAK · 6 km
2 h 25 m
€160-183
AMS · 47 km
ManchesterMAN
3 h 35 m
€124-167
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
1 h 15 m
€145-187
AMS · 47 km
DublinDUB
3 h 30 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
1 h 35 m
€69-96
AMS · 47 km
CopenhagenCPH
4 h 20 m
€165-220
2 stops
RAK · 6 km
1 h 25 m
€171-212
1 stop
AMS · 47 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
5 h 0 m
€136-201
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
2 h 0 m
€156-208
AMS · 47 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 20 m
€140-172
RAK · 6 km
1 h 5 m
€159-284
RTM · 5 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
7 h 35 m
€512-556
1 stop
AMS · 47 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
3 h 30 m
€122-160
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
50 m
no fares
AMS · 47 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
3 h 10 m
€61-121
RAK · 6 km
1 h 35 m
€224-269
1 stop
RTM · 5 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

MeasureMarrakechRotterdam
Official languageArabic, Standard Moroccan TamazightDutch
CurrencyMoroccan Dirham (MAD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15112 or 911
Elevation465 m10 m
Main airportMarrakesh Menara Airport (RAK)6 km from centre118 non-stop destinationsRotterdam The Hague Airport (RTM)5 km from centre45 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureMarrakechRotterdam
City population1,002,697664,311
People per km²4,3602,080
Museums within 10 km1440
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km15
Distinct cuisines in the centre5677
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.