VacationSelector

Marrakech or Seville?

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 nature & day trips and value for money with your weighting.

Seville
✓ Best match
54
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.

MarrakechSeville
Beaches & swimming. Marrakech and Seville are level on 0.
MarrakechSeville
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km02
Coast distance134 km65 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Seville leads by 12 points.12
MarrakechSeville
Score5466
Restaurants within 2 km of centre4611,370
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2622
Museums & heritage. Seville leads by 12 points.12
MarrakechSeville
Score4456
Museums within 10 km2250
Museums within 2 km of centre1740
Share of museums within 2 km %7780
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Seville leads by 25 points.25
MarrakechSeville
Score3762
Drinking venues within 4 km2821,089
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre161679
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5762
Nightclubs within 4 km3257
Nature & day trips. Marrakech leads by 15 points.15
MarrakechSeville
Score5237
Protected land share 50 km %8
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km47 hectares82 hectares
Good for families. Seville leads by 12 points.12
MarrakechSeville
Score5365
Tourist attractions within 2 km2847
Park area within 2 km47 hectares82 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km22
Sights concentration. Seville leads by 9 points.9
MarrakechSeville
Score4655
Notable places within 2 km5592
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Marrakech leads by 15 points.15
MarrakechSeville
Score8671
Price level global39.860.8
Daily budget€122
Year-round weather. Marrakech leads by 6 points.6
MarrakechSeville
Score8175
Monthly daytime high19.1 °C to 37.6 °C16.3 °C to 36.2 °C
Monthly rainfall1 mm to 36 mm1 mm to 78 mm
Dry months125
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
Seville
16
18
22
24
28
33
36
36
32
26
20
17
Rainfall, mm
Marrakech
26
27
36
28
9
3
1
3
14
19
29
25
Seville
56
46
47
51
33
6
1
3
32
74
72
78
Daylight, hours per day
Marrakech
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
11
10
Seville
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Marrakech
8
8
8
9
10
11
11
10
9
8
8
7
Seville
6
7
7
8
10
11
12
11
8
8
6
5

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Marrakech: 1991-2020 normals, Marrakech (5.1 km from centre). Seville: 1991-2020 normals, Sevilla / San Pablo (8.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMarrakechSeville
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 20 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
1 h 35 m
€111-178
1 stop
SVQ · 9 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 20 m
€140-172
RAK · 6 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
SVQ · 9 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
3 h 10 m
€85-123
RAK · 6 km
2 h 25 m
€99-133
1 stop
SVQ · 9 km
MadridMAD
1 h 55 m
€64-110
RAK · 6 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
SVQ · 9 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
3 h 30 m
€122-160
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
SVQ · 9 km
TenerifeTFS, TFN
1 h 45 m
€102-113
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
2 h 20 m
€126-171
SVQ · 9 km
PalmaPMI
2 h 15 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
SVQ · 9 km
BilbaoBIO
2 h 15 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
1 h 30 m
€112-119
SVQ · 9 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
3 h 10 m
€61-121
RAK · 6 km
2 h 25 m
€89-105
SVQ · 9 km
RomeFCO, CIA
3 h 10 m
€115-186
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
SVQ · 9 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

MeasureMarrakechSeville
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 m18 m
Main airportMarrakesh Menara Airport (RAK)6 km from centre118 non-stop destinationsSeville Airport (SVQ)9 km from centre93 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureMarrakechSeville
City population1,002,697689,423
People per km²4,3604,896
Museums within 10 km1424
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre5652

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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. 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.