VacationSelector

Marrakech or Rovaniemi?

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 year-round weather and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Rovaniemi
23
match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

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

MarrakechRovaniemi
Beaches & swimming. Marrakech and Rovaniemi are level on 0.
MarrakechRovaniemi
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km013
Coast distance134 km99 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Marrakech leads by 33 points.33
MarrakechRovaniemi
Score5421
Restaurants within 2 km of centre46180
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2614
Museums & heritage. Marrakech leads by 24 points.24
MarrakechRovaniemi
Score4420
Museums within 10 km228
Museums within 2 km of centre177
Share of museums within 2 km %7788
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Marrakech leads by 33 points.33
MarrakechRovaniemi
Score374
Drinking venues within 4 km28252
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre16142
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5781
Nightclubs within 4 km323
Nature & day trips. Marrakech leads by 36 points.36
MarrakechRovaniemi
Score5216
Protected land share 50 km %2
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km47 hectares25 hectares
Good for families. Marrakech leads by 32 points.32
MarrakechRovaniemi
Score5321
Tourist attractions within 2 km282
Park area within 2 km47 hectares25 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km22
Sights concentration. Marrakech leads by 21 points.21
MarrakechRovaniemi
Score4625
Notable places within 2 km5517
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Marrakech leads by 30 points.30
MarrakechRovaniemi
Score8656
Price level global39.881.6
Daily budget€184
Year-round weather. Marrakech leads by 38 points.38
MarrakechRovaniemi
Score8143
Monthly daytime high19.1 °C to 37.6 °C-7.9 °C to 20.9 °C
Monthly rainfall1 mm to 36 mm30 mm to 75 mm
Dry months125
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
Rovaniemi
-8
-6
-1
5
13
18
21
18
13
4
0
-4
Rainfall, mm
Marrakech
26
27
36
28
9
3
1
3
14
19
29
25
Rovaniemi
37
32
33
30
37
69
75
63
50
50
48
41
Daylight, hours per day
Marrakech
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
11
10
Rovaniemi
4
8
12
15
20
24
22
17
13
10
6
3
Sunshine, hours per day
Marrakech
8
8
8
9
10
11
11
10
9
8
8
7
Rovaniemi
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). Rovaniemi: 2008-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Rovaniemi Rautatieasema / Kuusela (0.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMarrakechRovaniemi
HelsinkiHEL
5 h 25 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
RVN · 8 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 20 m
€140-172
RAK · 6 km
3 h 15 m
no fares
RVN · 8 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
3 h 10 m
€85-123
RAK · 6 km
3 h 25 m
no fares
RVN · 8 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
3 h 30 m
€122-160
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
3 h 10 m
no fares
RVN · 8 km
DublinDUB
3 h 30 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
RVN · 8 km
ManchesterMAN
3 h 35 m
€124-167
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
3 h 10 m
no fares
KTT · 139 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
3 h 10 m
€61-121
RAK · 6 km
3 h 40 m
no fares
RVN · 8 km
AmsterdamAMS
3 h 40 m
€201-233
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
3 h 0 m
no fares
RVN · 8 km
BirminghamBHX
3 h 30 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
3 h 15 m
no fares
RVN · 8 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
5 h 25 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
5 h 15 m
no fares
RVN · 8 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

MeasureMarrakechRovaniemi
Official languageArabic, Standard Moroccan TamazightFinnish, Swedish
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 m88 m
Main airportMarrakesh Menara Airport (RAK)6 km from centre118 non-stop destinationsRovaniemi Airport (RVN)8 km from centre43 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureMarrakechRovaniemi
City population1,002,69765,329
People per km²4,3609
Museums within 10 km146
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre5616

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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. 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.