VacationSelector

Marrakech or Santiago de Compostela?

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

Santiago de Compostela
42
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.

MarrakechSantiago de Compostela
Beaches & swimming. Marrakech and Santiago de Compostela are level on 0.
MarrakechSantiago de Compostela
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km00
Coast distance134 km26 km
Water distance26 km
Places to eat. Marrakech leads by 6 points.6
MarrakechSantiago de Compostela
Score5448
Restaurants within 2 km of centre461336
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2623
Museums & heritage. Marrakech and Santiago de Compostela are level on 44.
MarrakechSantiago de Compostela
Score4444
Museums within 10 km2216
Museums within 2 km of centre1714
Share of museums within 2 km %7788
Unesco sites within 50 km12
Nightlife. Marrakech leads by 1 points.1
MarrakechSantiago de Compostela
Score3736
Drinking venues within 4 km282306
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre161268
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5788
Nightclubs within 4 km3213
Nature & day trips. Marrakech leads by 6 points.6
MarrakechSantiago de Compostela
Score5246
Protected land share 50 km %11
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10092
Park area within 2 km47 hectares109 hectares
Good for families. Marrakech leads by 26 points.26
MarrakechSantiago de Compostela
Score5327
Tourist attractions within 2 km282
Park area within 2 km47 hectares109 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km20
Sights concentration. Marrakech leads by 4 points.4
MarrakechSantiago de Compostela
Score4642
Notable places within 2 km5544
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Marrakech leads by 15 points.15
MarrakechSantiago de Compostela
Score8671
Price level global39.860.8
Daily budget€122
Year-round weather. Marrakech leads by 19 points.19
MarrakechSantiago de Compostela
Score8162
Monthly daytime high19.1 °C to 37.6 °C11.3 °C to 25 °C
Monthly rainfall1 mm to 36 mm41 mm to 223 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
Santiago de Compostela
11
13
15
17
20
23
25
25
23
19
14
12
Sea temperature, °C
Marrakech
No coastline within reach
Santiago de Compostela
14
13
13
14
15
16
17
17
17
16
15
14
Rainfall, mm
Marrakech
26
27
36
28
9
3
1
3
14
19
29
25
Santiago de Compostela
217
149
153
136
116
61
41
61
91
208
223
222
Daylight, hours per day
Marrakech
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
11
10
Santiago de Compostela
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
Santiago de Compostela
3
4
5
6
7
7
8
8
6
4
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). Santiago de Compostela: 1991-2020 normals, Santiago / Labacolla (8.4 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromMarrakechSantiago de Compostela
MadridMAD
1 h 55 m
€64-110
RAK · 6 km
1 h 15 m
€86-122
SCQ · 10 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 20 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
1 h 40 m
€71-184
SCQ · 10 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 20 m
€140-172
RAK · 6 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
TenerifeTFS, TFN
1 h 45 m
€102-113
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
3 h 10 m
€85-123
RAK · 6 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
SevillaSVQ
1 h 30 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
PalmaPMI
2 h 15 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
MalagaAGP
1 h 25 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 km
AlicanteALC
1 h 50 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
1 h 40 m
€218-283
1 stop
SCQ · 10 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
3 h 10 m
€61-121
RAK · 6 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
SCQ · 10 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

MeasureMarrakechSantiago de Compostela
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 m260 m
Main airportMarrakesh Menara Airport (RAK)6 km from centre118 non-stop destinationsSantiago-Rosalía de Castro Airport (SCQ)10 km from centre27 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureMarrakechSantiago de Compostela
City population1,002,697100,965
People per km²4,360459
Museums within 10 km146
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Distinct cuisines in the centre5638
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. 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.