VacationSelector

Marrakech or Sydney?

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 with your weighting.

Sydney
✓ Best match
64
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nightlife with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

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

MarrakechSydney
Beaches & swimming. Sydney leads by 60 points.60
MarrakechSydney
Score060
Swim season months06
Beaches 10 km0160
Coast distance134 km7 km
Water distance7 km
Places to eat. Sydney leads by 24 points.24
MarrakechSydney
Score5478
Restaurants within 2 km of centre4612,205
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2631
Museums & heritage. Sydney leads by 7 points.7
MarrakechSydney
Score4451
Museums within 10 km2244
Museums within 2 km of centre1720
Share of museums within 2 km %7745
Unesco sites within 50 km12
Nightlife. Sydney leads by 38 points.38
MarrakechSydney
Score3775
Drinking venues within 4 km2822,050
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1611,405
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5769
Nightclubs within 4 km32120
Nature & day trips. Sydney leads by 6 points.6
MarrakechSydney
Score5258
Protected land share 50 km %10
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10052
Park area within 2 km47 hectares115 hectares
Good for families. Sydney leads by 11 points.11
MarrakechSydney
Score5364
Tourist attractions within 2 km2837
Park area within 2 km47 hectares115 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km22
Sights concentration. Sydney leads by 14 points.14
MarrakechSydney
Score4660
Notable places within 2 km55123
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Marrakech leads by 36 points.36
MarrakechSydney
Score8650
Price level global39.890.2
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Marrakech and Sydney are level on 81.
MarrakechSydney
Score8181
Monthly daytime high19.1 °C to 37.6 °C17.7 °C to 27.7 °C
Monthly rainfall1 mm to 36 mm55 mm to 121 mm
Dry months120
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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
Sydney
28
27
26
23
21
18
18
19
22
24
25
26
Sea temperature, °C
Marrakech
No coastline within reach
Sydney
23
23
23
22
21
20
19
18
18
19
20
21
Rainfall, mm
Marrakech
26
27
36
28
9
3
1
3
14
19
29
25
Sydney
80
116
90
95
89
121
70
63
57
55
71
68
Daylight, hours per day
Marrakech
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
11
10
Sydney
14
13
12
11
10
10
10
11
12
13
14
14
Sunshine, hours per day
Marrakech
8
8
8
9
10
11
11
10
9
8
8
7
Sydney
8
6
7
7
7
6
7
8
8
8
7
8

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Marrakech: 1991-2020 normals, Marrakech (5.1 km from centre). Sydney: 1991-2020 normals, Sydney Airport (3.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMarrakechSydney
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 20 m
€140-172
RAK · 6 km
20 h 40 m
€931-1073
1 stop
SYD · 9 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
3 h 10 m
€85-123
RAK · 6 km
20 h 35 m
no fares
SYD · 9 km
RomeFCO, CIA
3 h 10 m
€115-186
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
19 h 55 m
no fares
SYD · 9 km
DohaDOH
7 h 30 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
15 h 15 m
€997-1100
SYD · 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

MeasureMarrakechSydney
Official languageArabic, Standard Moroccan TamazightEnglish
CurrencyMoroccan Dirham (MAD)Australian Dollar (AUD)
SocketsCE50 HzI230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1UTC+10, UTC+11 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15000
Elevation465 m6 m
Main airportMarrakesh Menara Airport (RAK)6 km from centre118 non-stop destinationsSydney Kingsford Smith International Airport (SYD)9 km from centre94 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureMarrakechSydney
City population1,002,6975,450,496
People per km²4,360449
Museums within 10 km1438
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Distinct cuisines in the centre5679
Swim season, months above 21 °C6 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.