VacationSelector

Marrakech or San Francisco?

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.

San Francisco
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nightlife with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

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

MarrakechSan Francisco
Beaches & swimming. San Francisco leads by 60 points.60
MarrakechSan Francisco
Score060
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km044
Coast distance134 km2 km
Water distance2 km
Places to eat. San Francisco leads by 29 points.29
MarrakechSan Francisco
Score5483
Restaurants within 2 km of centre4612,359
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2639
Museums & heritage. Marrakech and San Francisco are level on 44.
MarrakechSan Francisco
Score4444
Museums within 10 km2257
Museums within 2 km of centre1729
Share of museums within 2 km %7751
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. San Francisco leads by 31 points.31
MarrakechSan Francisco
Score3768
Drinking venues within 4 km2821,434
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre161928
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5765
Nightclubs within 4 km3297
Nature & day trips. San Francisco leads by 8 points.8
MarrakechSan Francisco
Score5260
Protected land share 50 km %17
Landscape blanket share 50 km %04
Land share of disc %10057
Park area within 2 km47 hectares45 hectares
Good for families. San Francisco leads by 4 points.4
MarrakechSan Francisco
Score5357
Tourist attractions within 2 km2848
Park area within 2 km47 hectares45 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km21
Sights concentration. San Francisco leads by 17 points.17
MarrakechSan Francisco
Score4663
Notable places within 2 km55147
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Marrakech leads by 43 points.43
MarrakechSan Francisco
Score8643
Price level global39.8100
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Marrakech leads by 3 points.3
MarrakechSan Francisco
Score8178
Monthly daytime high19.1 °C to 37.6 °C14 °C to 23.2 °C
Monthly rainfall1 mm to 36 mm0 mm to 105 mm
Dry months127
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 Francisco
14
16
18
20
20
22
22
23
23
22
18
14
Sea temperature, °C
Marrakech
No coastline within reach
San Francisco
12
12
12
12
12
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
Rainfall, mm
Marrakech
26
27
36
28
9
3
1
3
14
19
29
25
San Francisco
105
87
91
26
16
5
0
1
7
27
72
87
Daylight, hours per day
Marrakech
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
11
10
San Francisco
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Marrakech
8
8
8
9
10
11
11
10
9
8
8
7
San Francisco
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 Francisco: 1981-2010 normals, Alameda Naval Air Station (9.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMarrakechSan Francisco
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 20 m
€140-172
RAK · 6 km
10 h 50 m
no fares
SFO · 18 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
3 h 10 m
€85-123
RAK · 6 km
11 h 15 m
no fares
SFO · 18 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
5 h 35 m
€286-328
1 stop
SFO · 18 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
3 h 35 m
€144-224
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
11 h 25 m
no fares
SFO · 18 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 20 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
11 h 55 m
€653-1326
1 stop
SFO · 18 km
AtlantaATL, PDK
8 h 55 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
4 h 40 m
no fares
SFO · 18 km
MadridMAD
1 h 55 m
€64-110
RAK · 6 km
11 h 40 m
no fares
SFO · 18 km
LisbonLIS
1 h 35 m
€64-110
RAK · 6 km
11 h 25 m
no fares
SFO · 18 km
MunichMUC
3 h 35 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
11 h 45 m
no fares
SFO · 18 km
DublinDUB
3 h 30 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
10 h 20 m
no fares
SFO · 18 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 Francisco
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 m16 m
Main airportMarrakesh Menara Airport (RAK)6 km from centre118 non-stop destinationsSan Francisco International Airport (SFO)18 km from centre142 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureMarrakechSan Francisco
City population1,002,697873,965
People per km²4,3601,455
Museums within 10 km1450
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre56108
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. 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.