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Marrakech or Sao Paulo?

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 museums & heritage with your weighting.

Sao Paulo
✓ Best match
56
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.

MarrakechSao Paulo
Beaches & swimming. Marrakech and Sao Paulo are level on 0.
MarrakechSao Paulo
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km00
Coast distance134 km51 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Sao Paulo leads by 19 points.19
MarrakechSao Paulo
Score5473
Restaurants within 2 km of centre4611,735
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2627
Museums & heritage. Marrakech leads by 1 points.1
MarrakechSao Paulo
Score4443
Museums within 10 km2282
Museums within 2 km of centre1726
Share of museums within 2 km %7732
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Sao Paulo leads by 35 points.35
MarrakechSao Paulo
Score3772
Drinking venues within 4 km2821,747
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre161896
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5751
Nightclubs within 4 km32118
Nature & day trips. Marrakech leads by 1 points.1
MarrakechSao Paulo
Score5251
Protected land share 50 km %26
Landscape blanket share 50 km %015
Land share of disc %10095
Park area within 2 km47 hectares52 hectares
Good for families. Sao Paulo leads by 2 points.2
MarrakechSao Paulo
Score5355
Tourist attractions within 2 km2838
Park area within 2 km47 hectares52 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km21
Sights concentration. Sao Paulo leads by 4 points.4
MarrakechSao Paulo
Score4650
Notable places within 2 km5568
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Marrakech leads by 5 points.5
MarrakechSao Paulo
Score8681
Price level global39.846.1
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Sao Paulo leads by 2 points.2
MarrakechSao Paulo
Score8183
Monthly daytime high19.1 °C to 37.6 °C22.8 °C to 29.2 °C
Monthly rainfall1 mm to 36 mm26 mm to 297 mm
Dry months121
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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F
M
A
M
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J
A
S
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Daytime high, °C
Marrakech
19
21
24
26
30
34
38
37
33
29
23
20
Sao Paulo
28
29
28
27
24
23
23
25
25
27
27
28
Rainfall, mm
Marrakech
26
27
36
28
9
3
1
3
14
19
29
25
Sao Paulo
297
259
206
89
64
55
53
26
82
128
146
234
Daylight, hours per day
Marrakech
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
11
10
Sao Paulo
13
13
12
12
11
11
11
11
12
13
13
14
Sunshine, hours per day
Marrakech
8
8
8
9
10
11
11
10
9
8
8
7
Sao Paulo
4
6
6
5
5
5
6
6
5
6
5
5

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Marrakech: 1991-2020 normals, Marrakech (5.1 km from centre). Sao Paulo: 1991-2020 normals, Sao Paulo (5.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMarrakechSao Paulo
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 20 m
€140-172
RAK · 6 km
11 h 50 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
3 h 10 m
€85-123
RAK · 6 km
11 h 45 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
MadridMAD
1 h 55 m
€64-110
RAK · 6 km
10 h 30 m
€739-741
GRU · 21 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
3 h 30 m
€122-160
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
12 h 0 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
3 h 10 m
€61-121
RAK · 6 km
11 h 50 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 20 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
11 h 0 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
LisbonLIS
1 h 35 m
€64-110
RAK · 6 km
10 h 0 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
9 h 40 m
€576-611
GRU · 21 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
3 h 35 m
€144-224
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
12 h 10 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
AmsterdamAMS
3 h 40 m
€201-233
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
12 h 10 m
no fares
GRU · 21 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

MeasureMarrakechSao Paulo
Official languageArabic, Standard Moroccan TamazightPortuguese
CurrencyMoroccan Dirham (MAD)Brazilian Real (BRL)
SocketsCE50 HzCN60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1UTC-3
Emergency numberPolice 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15Police 190, ambulance 192, fire 193
Elevation465 m760 m
Main airportMarrakesh Menara Airport (RAK)6 km from centre118 non-stop destinationsSão Paulo/Guarulhos–Governor André Franco Montoro International Airport (GRU)21 km from centre102 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureMarrakechSao Paulo
City population1,002,69711,451,999
People per km²4,3607,519
Museums within 10 km1490
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre5659

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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. 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.