VacationSelector

Marrakech or Siena?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Marrakech
✓ Best match
50
match

Wins on nature & day trips and places to eat with your weighting.

Siena
39
match

Wins on museums & heritage and sights concentration 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.

MarrakechSiena
Beaches & swimming. Marrakech and Siena are level on 0.
MarrakechSiena
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km00
Coast distance134 km64 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Marrakech leads by 22 points.22
MarrakechSiena
Score5432
Restaurants within 2 km of centre461242
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2611
Museums & heritage. Siena leads by 27 points.27
MarrakechSiena
Score4471
Museums within 10 km2255
Museums within 2 km of centre1751
Share of museums within 2 km %7793
Unesco sites within 50 km15
Nightlife. Marrakech leads by 20 points.20
MarrakechSiena
Score3717
Drinking venues within 4 km282142
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre161119
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5784
Nightclubs within 4 km321
Nature & day trips. Marrakech leads by 33 points.33
MarrakechSiena
Score5219
Protected land share 50 km %3
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km47 hectares29 hectares
Good for families. Marrakech leads by 22 points.22
MarrakechSiena
Score5331
Tourist attractions within 2 km2813
Park area within 2 km47 hectares29 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km20
Sights concentration. Siena leads by 4 points.4
MarrakechSiena
Score4650
Notable places within 2 km5569
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Marrakech leads by 18 points.18
MarrakechSiena
Score8668
Price level global39.864.9
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Marrakech leads by 17 points.17
MarrakechSiena
Score8164
Monthly daytime high19.1 °C to 37.6 °C8.9 °C to 31.3 °C
Monthly rainfall1 mm to 36 mm49 mm to 136 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
Siena
9
11
15
20
23
28
31
31
26
20
14
10
Rainfall, mm
Marrakech
26
27
36
28
9
3
1
3
14
19
29
25
Siena
71
79
107
75
99
71
53
49
103
86
136
110
Daylight, hours per day
Marrakech
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
11
10
Siena
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Marrakech
8
8
8
9
10
11
11
10
9
8
8
7
Siena
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). Siena: 2006-2017 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Arezzo (45 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMarrakechSiena
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
3 h 10 m
€85-123
RAK · 6 km
1 h 40 m
€143-159
FLR · 55 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 20 m
€140-172
RAK · 6 km
2 h 5 m
€180-199
1 stop
FLR · 55 km
AmsterdamAMS
3 h 40 m
€201-233
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
1 h 55 m
€232-255
2 stops
FLR · 55 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 20 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
1 h 35 m
€113-168
FLR · 55 km
RomeFCO, CIA
3 h 10 m
€115-186
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
55 m
€136-139
1 stop
FLR · 55 km
MadridMAD
1 h 55 m
€64-110
RAK · 6 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
FLR · 55 km
ManchesterMAN
3 h 35 m
€124-167
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
PSA · 86 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
3 h 35 m
€144-224
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
FLR · 55 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
3 h 30 m
€122-160
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
1 h 45 m
€156-246
1 stop
FLR · 55 km
MunichMUC
3 h 35 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
FLR · 55 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

MeasureMarrakechSiena
Official languageArabic, Standard Moroccan TamazightItalian
CurrencyMoroccan Dirham (MAD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15112
Elevation465 m322 m
Main airportMarrakesh Menara Airport (RAK)6 km from centre118 non-stop destinationsFlorence Airport, Peretola (FLR)55 km from centre36 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureMarrakechSiena
City population1,002,69752,812
People per km²4,360446
Museums within 10 km1429
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km15
Distinct cuisines in the centre5625

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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.