VacationSelector

Marrakech or Thessaloniki?

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 good for families and value for money with your weighting.

Thessaloniki
✓ Best match
59
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.

MarrakechThessaloniki
Beaches & swimming. Thessaloniki leads by 55 points.55
MarrakechThessaloniki
Score055
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km04
Coast distance134 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Marrakech leads by 4 points.4
MarrakechThessaloniki
Score5450
Restaurants within 2 km of centre461640
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2615
Museums & heritage. Thessaloniki leads by 5 points.5
MarrakechThessaloniki
Score4449
Museums within 10 km2234
Museums within 2 km of centre1722
Share of museums within 2 km %7765
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Thessaloniki leads by 30 points.30
MarrakechThessaloniki
Score3767
Drinking venues within 4 km2821,407
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre161805
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5757
Nightclubs within 4 km3261
Nature & day trips. Thessaloniki leads by 13 points.13
MarrakechThessaloniki
Score5265
Protected land share 50 km %25
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10083
Park area within 2 km47 hectares39 hectares
Good for families. Marrakech leads by 12 points.12
MarrakechThessaloniki
Score5341
Tourist attractions within 2 km2816
Park area within 2 km47 hectares39 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km21
Sights concentration. Thessaloniki leads by 10 points.10
MarrakechThessaloniki
Score4656
Notable places within 2 km5598
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Marrakech leads by 12 points.12
MarrakechThessaloniki
Score8674
Price level global39.855.8
Daily budget€125
Year-round weather. Marrakech leads by 9 points.9
MarrakechThessaloniki
Score8172
Monthly daytime high19.1 °C to 37.6 °C9.7 °C to 32.1 °C
Monthly rainfall1 mm to 36 mm21 mm to 56 mm
Dry months129
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
Thessaloniki
10
11
15
19
25
30
32
32
27
21
16
11
Sea temperature, °C
Marrakech
No coastline within reach
Thessaloniki
14
13
13
15
19
23
26
27
25
21
18
15
Rainfall, mm
Marrakech
26
27
36
28
9
3
1
3
14
19
29
25
Thessaloniki
35
32
38
36
44
30
23
21
33
41
38
56
Daylight, hours per day
Marrakech
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
11
10
Thessaloniki
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Marrakech
8
8
8
9
10
11
11
10
9
8
8
7
Thessaloniki
4
4
6
6
9
11
11
10
8
6
4
3

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Marrakech: 1991-2020 normals, Marrakech (5.1 km from centre). Thessaloniki: 1991-2020 normals, Thessaloniki Airport (14 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMarrakechThessaloniki
AthensATH
4 h 10 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
1 h 0 m
€97-118
SKG · 14 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 20 m
€140-172
RAK · 6 km
3 h 15 m
€95-156
SKG · 14 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
3 h 10 m
€85-123
RAK · 6 km
2 h 50 m
€98-154
1 stop
SKG · 14 km
DusseldorfDUS, NRN
3 h 35 m
€173-209
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
2 h 40 m
€127-199
1 stop
SKG · 14 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
3 h 30 m
€122-160
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
2 h 50 m
€155-238
1 stop
SKG · 14 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
3 h 35 m
€144-224
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
2 h 30 m
€119-127
SKG · 14 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
3 h 10 m
€61-121
RAK · 6 km
2 h 10 m
€129-217
SKG · 14 km
BerlinBER
4 h 5 m
€180-258
2 stops
RAK · 6 km
2 h 25 m
€156-243
1 stop
SKG · 14 km
ManchesterMAN
3 h 35 m
€124-167
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
3 h 25 m
no fares
SKG · 14 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
5 h 25 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
2 h 20 m
€208-315
1 stop
SKG · 14 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

MeasureMarrakechThessaloniki
Official languageArabic, Standard Moroccan TamazightGreek
CurrencyMoroccan Dirham (MAD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1UTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15112
Elevation465 m6 m
Main airportMarrakesh Menara Airport (RAK)6 km from centre118 non-stop destinationsThessaloniki Macedonia International Airport (SKG)14 km from centre88 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureMarrakechThessaloniki
City population1,002,697309,617
People per km²4,36016,042
Museums within 10 km1431
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre5645
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. 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.