VacationSelector

Marrakech or Seattle?

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, 2 points apart

Marrakech
50
match

Wins on value for money and year-round weather with your weighting.

Seattle
52
match

Wins on beaches & swimming 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.

MarrakechSeattle
Beaches & swimming. Seattle leads by 60 points.60
MarrakechSeattle
Score060
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km0100
Coast distance134 km1 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Seattle leads by 21 points.21
MarrakechSeattle
Score5475
Restaurants within 2 km of centre4611,460
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2635
Museums & heritage. Marrakech leads by 8 points.8
MarrakechSeattle
Score4436
Museums within 10 km2228
Museums within 2 km of centre1717
Share of museums within 2 km %7761
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Seattle leads by 20 points.20
MarrakechSeattle
Score3757
Drinking venues within 4 km282873
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre161696
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5780
Nightclubs within 4 km3234
Nature & day trips. Marrakech leads by 12 points.12
MarrakechSeattle
Score5240
Protected land share 50 km %9
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10080
Park area within 2 km47 hectares63 hectares
Good for families. Marrakech leads by 7 points.7
MarrakechSeattle
Score5346
Tourist attractions within 2 km2817
Park area within 2 km47 hectares63 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km21
Sights concentration. Seattle leads by 6 points.6
MarrakechSeattle
Score4652
Notable places within 2 km5576
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Marrakech leads by 43 points.43
MarrakechSeattle
Score8643
Price level global39.8100
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Marrakech leads by 20 points.20
MarrakechSeattle
Score8161
Monthly daytime high19.1 °C to 37.6 °C7.8 °C to 24.9 °C
Monthly rainfall1 mm to 36 mm15 mm to 160 mm
Dry months123
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
Seattle
8
10
12
15
19
21
25
25
22
15
11
8
Sea temperature, °C
Marrakech
No coastline within reach
Seattle
8
8
8
9
10
11
12
12
11
10
9
9
Rainfall, mm
Marrakech
26
27
36
28
9
3
1
3
14
19
29
25
Seattle
147
96
106
81
48
37
15
25
41
99
160
147
Daylight, hours per day
Marrakech
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
11
10
Seattle
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Marrakech
8
8
8
9
10
11
11
10
9
8
8
7
Seattle
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). Seattle: 1991-2020 normals, Seattle-Tacoma Airport (17.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMarrakechSeattle
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 20 m
€140-172
RAK · 6 km
9 h 45 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
3 h 10 m
€85-123
RAK · 6 km
10 h 10 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
5 h 15 m
€300-424
SEA · 18 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
3 h 35 m
€144-224
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
10 h 20 m
€554-583
1 stop
SEA · 18 km
RomeFCO, CIA
3 h 10 m
€115-186
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
11 h 25 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 20 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
10 h 55 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
DublinDUB
3 h 30 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
9 h 15 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
AmsterdamAMS
3 h 40 m
€201-233
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
9 h 55 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
AtlantaATL, PDK
8 h 55 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
4 h 45 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 25 m
€549-632
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
5 h 0 m
no fares
YYJ · 142 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

MeasureMarrakechSeattle
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 m40 m
Main airportMarrakesh Menara Airport (RAK)6 km from centre118 non-stop destinationsSeattle–Tacoma International Airport (SEA)18 km from centre135 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureMarrakechSeattle
City population1,002,697737,015
People per km²4,3601,996
Museums within 10 km1427
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre5678
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.