VacationSelector

Marrakech or Salzburg?

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

Salzburg
42
match

Wins on 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.

MarrakechSalzburg
Beaches & swimming. Marrakech and Salzburg are level on 0.
MarrakechSalzburg
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km09
Coast distance134 km653 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Marrakech leads by 5 points.5
MarrakechSalzburg
Score5449
Restaurants within 2 km of centre461348
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2623
Museums & heritage. Salzburg leads by 16 points.16
MarrakechSalzburg
Score4460
Museums within 10 km2242
Museums within 2 km of centre1727
Share of museums within 2 km %7764
Unesco sites within 50 km13
Nightlife. Marrakech leads by 1 points.1
MarrakechSalzburg
Score3736
Drinking venues within 4 km282294
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre161241
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5782
Nightclubs within 4 km3216
Nature & day trips. Marrakech leads by 25 points.25
MarrakechSalzburg
Score5227
Protected land share 50 km %6
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km47 hectares39 hectares
Good for families. Marrakech leads by 5 points.5
MarrakechSalzburg
Score5348
Tourist attractions within 2 km2817
Park area within 2 km47 hectares39 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km24
Sights concentration. Marrakech and Salzburg are level on 46.
MarrakechSalzburg
Score4646
Notable places within 2 km5554
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Marrakech leads by 27 points.27
MarrakechSalzburg
Score8659
Price level global39.876.9
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Marrakech leads by 27 points.27
MarrakechSalzburg
Score8154
Monthly daytime high19.1 °C to 37.6 °C3.4 °C to 24.9 °C
Monthly rainfall1 mm to 36 mm47 mm to 168 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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A
M
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J
A
S
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D
Daytime high, °C
Marrakech
19
21
24
26
30
34
38
37
33
29
23
20
Salzburg
3
6
10
16
20
23
25
25
20
15
8
4
Rainfall, mm
Marrakech
26
27
36
28
9
3
1
3
14
19
29
25
Salzburg
62
47
83
80
142
168
159
167
127
90
70
67
Daylight, hours per day
Marrakech
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
11
10
Salzburg
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Marrakech
8
8
8
9
10
11
11
10
9
8
8
7
Salzburg
3
3
5
6
7
7
7
7
5
4
3
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Marrakech: 1991-2020 normals, Marrakech (5.1 km from centre). Salzburg: 1991-2020 normals, Salzburg (3.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMarrakechSalzburg
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
3 h 10 m
€85-123
RAK · 6 km
1 h 30 m
€183-250
MUC · 112 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 20 m
€140-172
RAK · 6 km
1 h 55 m
€186-283
SZG · 3 km
MadridMAD
1 h 55 m
€64-110
RAK · 6 km
2 h 25 m
€227-312
1 stop
MUC · 112 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 20 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
1 h 55 m
€166-216
MUC · 112 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
3 h 30 m
€122-160
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
MUC · 112 km
LisbonLIS
1 h 35 m
€64-110
RAK · 6 km
3 h 0 m
€253-306
1 stop
MUC · 112 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
3 h 10 m
€61-121
RAK · 6 km
1 h 5 m
€111-182
MUC · 112 km
RomeFCO, CIA
3 h 10 m
€115-186
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
1 h 30 m
€141-202
MUC · 112 km
AthensATH
4 h 10 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
MUC · 112 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
8 h 15 m
no fares
MUC · 112 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

MeasureMarrakechSalzburg
Official languageArabic, Standard Moroccan TamazightGerman, Austrian Sign Language
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
Elevation465 m424 m
Main airportMarrakesh Menara Airport (RAK)6 km from centre118 non-stop destinationsSalzburg Airport (SZG)3 km from centre62 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureMarrakechSalzburg
City population1,002,697155,021
People per km²4,3602,360
Museums within 10 km1438
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km13
Distinct cuisines in the centre5650

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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.