VacationSelector

Marrakech or San Diego?

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 sights concentration with your weighting.

San Diego
✓ Best match
58
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and good for families 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.

MarrakechSan Diego
Beaches & swimming. San Diego leads by 63 points.63
MarrakechSan Diego
Score063
Swim season months01
Beaches 10 km042
Coast distance134 km1 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. San Diego leads by 9 points.9
MarrakechSan Diego
Score5463
Restaurants within 2 km of centre461823
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2627
Museums & heritage. Marrakech and San Diego are level on 44.
MarrakechSan Diego
Score4444
Museums within 10 km2259
Museums within 2 km of centre1730
Share of museums within 2 km %7751
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. San Diego leads by 13 points.13
MarrakechSan Diego
Score3750
Drinking venues within 4 km282615
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre161408
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5766
Nightclubs within 4 km3231
Nature & day trips. San Diego leads by 3 points.3
MarrakechSan Diego
Score5255
Protected land share 50 km %6
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10052
Park area within 2 km47 hectares308 hectares
Good for families. San Diego leads by 22 points.22
MarrakechSan Diego
Score5375
Tourist attractions within 2 km2840
Park area within 2 km47 hectares308 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km23
Sights concentration. Marrakech leads by 6 points.6
MarrakechSan Diego
Score4640
Notable places within 2 km5540
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Marrakech leads by 43 points.43
MarrakechSan Diego
Score8643
Price level global39.8100
Daily budget
Year-round weather. San Diego leads by 7 points.7
MarrakechSan Diego
Score8188
Monthly daytime high19.1 °C to 37.6 °C18.6 °C to 25 °C
Monthly rainfall1 mm to 36 mm0 mm to 56 mm
Dry months129
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
San Diego
19
19
19
20
21
22
24
25
25
23
21
19
Sea temperature, °C
Marrakech
No coastline within reach
San Diego
15
15
16
16
17
19
20
21
21
19
18
16
Rainfall, mm
Marrakech
26
27
36
28
9
3
1
3
14
19
29
25
San Diego
50
56
37
17
7
1
2
0
3
13
20
42
Daylight, hours per day
Marrakech
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
11
10
San Diego
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
11
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Marrakech
8
8
8
9
10
11
11
10
9
8
8
7
San Diego
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). San Diego: 1991-2020 normals, San Diego International Airport (2.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMarrakechSan Diego
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 20 m
€140-172
RAK · 6 km
11 h 0 m
no fares
SAN · 3 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
5 h 15 m
€299-455
1 stop
SAN · 3 km
AmsterdamAMS
3 h 40 m
€201-233
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
11 h 15 m
no fares
SAN · 3 km
MunichMUC
3 h 35 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
12 h 5 m
no fares
SAN · 3 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 25 m
€549-632
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
5 h 20 m
no fares
SAN · 3 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

MeasureMarrakechSan Diego
Official languageArabic, Standard Moroccan Tamazight
CurrencyMoroccan Dirham (MAD)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCE50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1UTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15911
Elevation465 m129 m
Main airportMarrakesh Menara Airport (RAK)6 km from centre118 non-stop destinationsSan Diego International Airport (SAN)3 km from centre87 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureMarrakechSan Diego
City population1,002,6971,386,932
People per km²4,3601,438
Museums within 10 km1426
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre5644
Swim season, months above 21 °C1 month

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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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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.

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.