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Marrakech or Santiago?

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 good for families with your weighting.

Santiago
✓ Best match
55
match

Wins on nightlife and places to eat 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.

MarrakechSantiago
Beaches & swimming. Marrakech and Santiago are level on 0.
MarrakechSantiago
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km00
Coast distance134 km89 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Santiago leads by 18 points.18
MarrakechSantiago
Score5472
Restaurants within 2 km of centre4611,317
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2632
Museums & heritage. Santiago leads by 1 points.1
MarrakechSantiago
Score4445
Museums within 10 km2287
Museums within 2 km of centre1730
Share of museums within 2 km %7734
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Santiago leads by 24 points.24
MarrakechSantiago
Score3761
Drinking venues within 4 km282912
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre161542
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5759
Nightclubs within 4 km32112
Nature & day trips. Marrakech and Santiago are level on 52.
MarrakechSantiago
Score5252
Protected land share 50 km %17
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km47 hectares88 hectares
Good for families. Marrakech leads by 4 points.4
MarrakechSantiago
Score5349
Tourist attractions within 2 km2812
Park area within 2 km47 hectares88 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km23
Sights concentration. Santiago leads by 2 points.2
MarrakechSantiago
Score4648
Notable places within 2 km5562
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Marrakech leads by 5 points.5
MarrakechSantiago
Score8681
Price level global39.846.2
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Santiago leads by 4 points.4
MarrakechSantiago
Score8185
Monthly daytime high19.1 °C to 37.6 °C14.3 °C to 27.7 °C
Monthly rainfall1 mm to 36 mm0 mm to 87 mm
Dry months128
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
28
27
26
21
18
15
14
16
19
22
25
27
Rainfall, mm
Marrakech
26
27
36
28
9
3
1
3
14
19
29
25
Santiago
0
2
5
16
46
87
52
44
27
11
6
3
Daylight, hours per day
Marrakech
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
11
10
Santiago
14
13
12
11
10
10
10
11
12
13
14
14
Sunshine, hours per day
Marrakech
8
8
8
9
10
11
11
10
9
8
8
7
Santiago
11
9
8
6
5
3
4
5
6
8
9
11

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Marrakech: 1991-2020 normals, Marrakech (5.1 km from centre). Santiago: 1991-2020 normals, Santiago Q. Normal (3.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMarrakechSantiago
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 20 m
€140-172
RAK · 6 km
14 h 25 m
no fares
SCL · 14 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
3 h 10 m
€85-123
RAK · 6 km
14 h 25 m
no fares
SCL · 14 km
MadridMAD
1 h 55 m
€64-110
RAK · 6 km
13 h 15 m
€799-1378
1 stop
SCL · 14 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 20 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
13 h 45 m
€774-838
2 stops
SCL · 14 km
AmsterdamAMS
3 h 40 m
€201-233
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
14 h 45 m
no fares
SCL · 14 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 25 m
€549-632
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
11 h 0 m
no fares
SCL · 14 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
4 h 40 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
16 h 5 m
€960-1123
SCL · 14 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
Official languageArabic, Standard Moroccan TamazightSpanish
CurrencyMoroccan Dirham (MAD)Chilean Peso (CLP)
SocketsCE50 HzCL220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1UTC-4, UTC-3 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15Police 133/134, ambulance 131, fire 132
Elevation465 m575 m
Main airportMarrakesh Menara Airport (RAK)6 km from centre118 non-stop destinationsComodoro Arturo Merino Benítez International Airport (SCL)14 km from centre68 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureMarrakechSantiago
City population1,002,6976,257,516
People per km²4,3607,468
Museums within 10 km1454
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre5664

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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. 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.