VacationSelector

Marrakech or Tirana?

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

Your match

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Marrakech
50
match

Wins on museums & heritage and year-round weather with your weighting.

Tirana
51
match

Wins on nightlife and beaches & swimming 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.

MarrakechTirana
Beaches & swimming. Tirana leads by 17 points.17
MarrakechTirana
Score017
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km00
Coast distance134 km26 km
Water distance26 km
Places to eat. Tirana leads by 1 points.1
MarrakechTirana
Score5455
Restaurants within 2 km of centre461572
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2622
Museums & heritage. Marrakech leads by 19 points.19
MarrakechTirana
Score4425
Museums within 10 km2212
Museums within 2 km of centre178
Share of museums within 2 km %7767
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Tirana leads by 21 points.21
MarrakechTirana
Score3758
Drinking venues within 4 km282945
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre161683
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5772
Nightclubs within 4 km3229
Nature & day trips. Marrakech leads by 3 points.3
MarrakechTirana
Score5249
Protected land share 50 km %11
Landscape blanket share 50 km %03
Land share of disc %10083
Park area within 2 km47 hectares147 hectares
Good for families. Marrakech leads by 1 points.1
MarrakechTirana
Score5352
Tourist attractions within 2 km2821
Park area within 2 km47 hectares147 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km20
Sights concentration. Tirana leads by 7 points.7
MarrakechTirana
Score4653
Notable places within 2 km5583
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Marrakech leads by 2 points.2
MarrakechTirana
Score8684
Price level global39.842.6
Daily budget€76
Year-round weather. Marrakech leads by 14 points.14
MarrakechTirana
Score8167
Monthly daytime high19.1 °C to 37.6 °C11.6 °C to 30.7 °C
Monthly rainfall1 mm to 36 mm43 mm to 172 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
Tirana
12
13
16
19
24
28
31
31
27
22
17
13
Sea temperature, °C
Marrakech
No coastline within reach
Tirana
15
14
14
16
19
23
24
25
24
21
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Marrakech
26
27
36
28
9
3
1
3
14
19
29
25
Tirana
143
117
116
103
84
66
43
55
78
114
172
148
Daylight, hours per day
Marrakech
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
11
10
Tirana
10
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
Tirana
4
4
5
6
9
10
12
11
9
7
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). Tirana: 1961-1990 normals, Tirana (3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMarrakechTirana
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
3 h 10 m
€85-123
RAK · 6 km
2 h 30 m
€73-102
1 stop
TIA · 13 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 20 m
€140-172
RAK · 6 km
2 h 55 m
€62-138
TIA · 13 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
3 h 30 m
€122-160
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
2 h 30 m
€97-142
TIA · 13 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
3 h 10 m
€61-121
RAK · 6 km
1 h 50 m
€33-74
TIA · 13 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
4 h 30 m
€148-173
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
2 h 5 m
€68-80
TIA · 13 km
NantesNTE
2 h 50 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
TIA · 13 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 20 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
2 h 25 m
€74-123
1 stop
TIA · 13 km
CopenhagenCPH
4 h 20 m
€165-220
2 stops
RAK · 6 km
2 h 35 m
€109-148
1 stop
TIA · 13 km
BudapestBUD
4 h 5 m
€148-172
2 stops
RAK · 6 km
1 h 25 m
€58-106
TIA · 13 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
5 h 25 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
2 h 40 m
€222-261
TIA · 13 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

MeasureMarrakechTirana
Official languageArabic, Standard Moroccan TamazightAlbanian
CurrencyMoroccan Dirham (MAD)Lek (ALL)
SocketsCE50 HzCF220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15112
Elevation465 m110 m
Main airportMarrakesh Menara Airport (RAK)6 km from centre118 non-stop destinationsTirana International Airport Mother Teresa (TIA)13 km from centre129 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureMarrakechTirana
City population1,002,697389,323
People per km²4,3609,314
Museums within 10 km1411
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre5646
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.