VacationSelector

Marrakech or Shanghai?

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 year-round weather and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Shanghai
✓ Best match
54
match

Wins on good for families and beaches & swimming with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

MarrakechShanghai
Beaches & swimming. Shanghai leads by 17 points.17
MarrakechShanghai
Score017
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km00
Coast distance134 km18 km
Water distance18 km
Places to eatWe cannot measure this for Shanghai.
Museums & heritage. Shanghai leads by 1 points.1
MarrakechShanghai
Score4445
Museums within 10 km22108
Museums within 2 km of centre1728
Share of museums within 2 km %7726
Unesco sites within 50 km10
NightlifeWe cannot measure this for Shanghai.
Nature & day trips. Marrakech leads by 10 points.10
MarrakechShanghai
Score5242
Protected land share 50 km %9
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10082
Park area within 2 km47 hectares83 hectares
Good for families. Shanghai leads by 28 points.28
MarrakechShanghai
Score5381
Tourist attractions within 2 km2886
Park area within 2 km47 hectares83 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km210
Sights concentration. Shanghai leads by 5 points.5
MarrakechShanghai
Score4651
Notable places within 2 km5573
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Marrakech leads by 7 points.7
MarrakechShanghai
Score8679
Price level global39.849
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Marrakech leads by 16 points.16
MarrakechShanghai
Score8165
Monthly daytime high19.1 °C to 37.6 °C8.5 °C to 33.2 °C
Monthly rainfall1 mm to 36 mm43 mm to 216 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
Shanghai
9
11
15
21
26
28
33
33
29
23
18
12
Sea temperature, °C
Marrakech
No coastline within reach
Shanghai
8
7
10
14
19
22
26
28
26
21
17
12
Rainfall, mm
Marrakech
26
27
36
28
9
3
1
3
14
19
29
25
Shanghai
69
65
88
72
84
192
151
216
97
64
53
43
Daylight, hours per day
Marrakech
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
11
10
Shanghai
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
11
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Marrakech
8
8
8
9
10
11
11
10
9
8
8
7
Shanghai
4
4
5
5
6
4
6
6
5
5
4
4

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

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Getting there

Flying fromMarrakechShanghai
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 20 m
€140-172
RAK · 6 km
11 h 30 m
€528-630
1 stop
PVG · 33 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
3 h 10 m
€85-123
RAK · 6 km
11 h 35 m
no fares
PVG · 33 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
3 h 30 m
€122-160
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
11 h 15 m
no fares
PVG · 33 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
3 h 10 m
€61-121
RAK · 6 km
11 h 25 m
no fares
PVG · 33 km
ManchesterMAN
3 h 35 m
€124-167
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
11 h 30 m
no fares
PVG · 33 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 20 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
12 h 15 m
no fares
PVG · 33 km
MadridMAD
1 h 55 m
€64-110
RAK · 6 km
12 h 45 m
no fares
PVG · 33 km
LisbonLIS
1 h 35 m
€64-110
RAK · 6 km
13 h 20 m
no fares
HGH · 149 km
MarseilleMRS
2 h 45 m
€103-244
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
11 h 50 m
no fares
PVG · 33 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
3 h 35 m
€144-224
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
11 h 5 m
no fares
PVG · 33 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

MeasureMarrakechShanghai
Official languageArabic, Standard Moroccan TamazightPutonghua
CurrencyMoroccan Dirham (MAD)Yuan Renminbi (CNY)
SocketsCE50 HzACI220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1UTC+8
Emergency numberPolice 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15Police 110, ambulance 120, fire 119
Elevation465 m4 m
Main airportMarrakesh Menara Airport (RAK)6 km from centre118 non-stop destinationsShanghai Pudong International Airport (PVG)33 km from centre200 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days6 days

By the numbers

MeasureMarrakechShanghai
City population1,002,69724,870,895
People per km²4,3603,922
Museums within 10 km1444
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre5664
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months

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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.