VacationSelector

Marrakech or Tampa?

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 value for money and sights concentration with your weighting.

Tampa
44
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nightlife 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.

MarrakechTampa
Beaches & swimming. Tampa leads by 75 points.75
MarrakechTampa
Score075
Swim season months08
Beaches 10 km010
Coast distance134 km1 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Marrakech and Tampa are level on 54.
MarrakechTampa
Score5454
Restaurants within 2 km of centre461359
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2631
Museums & heritage. Marrakech leads by 17 points.17
MarrakechTampa
Score4427
Museums within 10 km2213
Museums within 2 km of centre1710
Share of museums within 2 km %7777
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Tampa leads by 2 points.2
MarrakechTampa
Score3739
Drinking venues within 4 km282324
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre161227
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5770
Nightclubs within 4 km3226
Nature & day trips. Marrakech leads by 22 points.22
MarrakechTampa
Score5230
Protected land share 50 km %6
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10072
Park area within 2 km47 hectares39 hectares
Good for families. Marrakech leads by 23 points.23
MarrakechTampa
Score5330
Tourist attractions within 2 km283
Park area within 2 km47 hectares39 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km25
Sights concentration. Marrakech leads by 25 points.25
MarrakechTampa
Score4621
Notable places within 2 km5513
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Marrakech leads by 43 points.43
MarrakechTampa
Score8643
Price level global39.8100
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Marrakech leads by 6 points.6
MarrakechTampa
Score8175
Monthly daytime high19.1 °C to 37.6 °C21.5 °C to 32.6 °C
Monthly rainfall1 mm to 36 mm36 mm to 228 mm
Dry months121
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
Tampa
22
23
25
28
31
32
32
33
32
29
26
23
Sea temperature, °C
Marrakech
No coastline within reach
Tampa
18
18
20
23
26
28
30
30
29
27
23
20
Rainfall, mm
Marrakech
26
27
36
28
9
3
1
3
14
19
29
25
Tampa
66
66
64
64
67
187
197
228
156
60
36
65
Daylight, hours per day
Marrakech
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
11
10
Tampa
11
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
12
11
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Marrakech
8
8
8
9
10
11
11
10
9
8
8
7
Tampa
7
7
9
10
11
10
9
10
8
8
7
7

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Marrakech: 1991-2020 normals, Marrakech (5.1 km from centre). Tampa: 1991-2020 normals, Tampa International Airport (7.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMarrakechTampa
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 20 m
€140-172
RAK · 6 km
9 h 0 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
3 h 10 m
€85-123
RAK · 6 km
9 h 10 m
no fares
MCO · 125 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
2 h 35 m
€178-237
1 stop
TPA · 8 km
ManchesterMAN
3 h 35 m
€124-167
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
8 h 40 m
no fares
MCO · 125 km
MadridMAD
1 h 55 m
€64-110
RAK · 6 km
8 h 55 m
no fares
MCO · 125 km
AtlantaATL, PDK
8 h 55 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
3 h 35 m
€144-224
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
9 h 45 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
DublinDUB
3 h 30 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
8 h 20 m
no fares
MCO · 125 km
AmsterdamAMS
3 h 40 m
€201-233
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
9 h 25 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
EdinburghEDI
3 h 55 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
8 h 30 m
no fares
MCO · 125 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

MeasureMarrakechTampa
Official languageArabic, Standard Moroccan Tamazight
CurrencyMoroccan Dirham (MAD)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCE50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15911
Elevation465 m30 m
Main airportMarrakesh Menara Airport (RAK)6 km from centre118 non-stop destinationsTampa International Airport (TPA)8 km from centre99 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureMarrakechTampa
City population1,002,697384,959
People per km²4,360848
Museums within 10 km146
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre5647
Swim season, months above 21 °C8 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.