VacationSelector

Marrakech or San Sebastian?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Marrakech
50
match

Wins on good for families and year-round weather with your weighting.

San Sebastian
51
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and sights concentration 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 Sebastian
Beaches & swimming. San Sebastian leads by 55 points.55
MarrakechSan Sebastian
Score055
Swim season months02
Beaches 10 km010
Coast distance134 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. San Sebastian leads by 1 points.1
MarrakechSan Sebastian
Score5455
Restaurants within 2 km of centre461472
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2626
Museums & heritage. Marrakech leads by 5 points.5
MarrakechSan Sebastian
Score4439
Museums within 10 km2217
Museums within 2 km of centre177
Share of museums within 2 km %7741
Unesco sites within 50 km13
Nightlife. San Sebastian leads by 3 points.3
MarrakechSan Sebastian
Score3740
Drinking venues within 4 km282388
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre161338
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5787
Nightclubs within 4 km3212
Nature & day trips. San Sebastian leads by 4 points.4
MarrakechSan Sebastian
Score5256
Protected land share 50 km %11
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10052
Park area within 2 km47 hectares70 hectares
Good for families. Marrakech leads by 23 points.23
MarrakechSan Sebastian
Score5330
Tourist attractions within 2 km285
Park area within 2 km47 hectares70 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km21
Sights concentration. San Sebastian leads by 8 points.8
MarrakechSan Sebastian
Score4654
Notable places within 2 km5589
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Marrakech leads by 15 points.15
MarrakechSan Sebastian
Score8671
Price level global39.860.8
Daily budget€122
Year-round weather. Marrakech leads by 23 points.23
MarrakechSan Sebastian
Score8158
Monthly daytime high19.1 °C to 37.6 °C11.2 °C to 22.9 °C
Monthly rainfall1 mm to 36 mm92 mm to 203 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
San Sebastian
11
12
14
15
18
20
22
23
21
19
14
12
Sea temperature, °C
Marrakech
No coastline within reach
San Sebastian
13
12
13
14
16
19
21
22
21
18
16
14
Rainfall, mm
Marrakech
26
27
36
28
9
3
1
3
14
19
29
25
San Sebastian
151
125
119
126
122
96
92
109
117
155
203
153
Daylight, hours per day
Marrakech
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
11
10
San Sebastian
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Marrakech
8
8
8
9
10
11
11
10
9
8
8
7
San Sebastian
3
4
5
5
7
6
7
6
6
5
3
3

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Marrakech: 1991-2020 normals, Marrakech (5.1 km from centre). San Sebastian: 1991-2020 normals, San Sebastian / Igueldo (6.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMarrakechSan Sebastian
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
3 h 10 m
€85-123
RAK · 6 km
1 h 30 m
€129-164
BIQ · 40 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 20 m
€140-172
RAK · 6 km
1 h 45 m
€126-289
1 stop
BIQ · 40 km
AmsterdamAMS
3 h 40 m
€201-233
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
2 h 0 m
€196-210
1 stop
BIO · 75 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
3 h 35 m
€144-224
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
BIO · 75 km
MadridMAD
1 h 55 m
€64-110
RAK · 6 km
1 h 5 m
€76-169
EAS · 16 km
PalmaPMI
2 h 15 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
BIO · 75 km
TenerifeTFS, TFN
1 h 45 m
€102-113
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
3 h 10 m
no fares
BIO · 75 km
MunichMUC
3 h 35 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
2 h 10 m
€203-242
1 stop
BIO · 75 km
LyonLYS
2 h 55 m
€112-202
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
BIQ · 40 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
7 h 20 m
no fares
BIO · 75 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 Sebastian
Official languageArabic, Standard Moroccan TamazightSpanish
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 m6 m
Main airportMarrakesh Menara Airport (RAK)6 km from centre118 non-stop destinationsSan Sebastián Airport (EAS)16 km from centre11 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureMarrakechSan Sebastian
City population1,002,697189,866
People per km²4,3603,118
Museums within 10 km1414
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km13
Distinct cuisines in the centre5645
Swim season, months above 21 °C2 months

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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.