VacationSelector

Marrakech or Tromso?

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 year-round weather and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Tromso
27
match

Wins on 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.

MarrakechTromso
Beaches & swimming. Tromso leads by 52 points.52
MarrakechTromso
Score052
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km014
Coast distance134 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Marrakech leads by 30 points.30
MarrakechTromso
Score5424
Restaurants within 2 km of centre46185
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2616
Museums & heritage. Marrakech leads by 21 points.21
MarrakechTromso
Score4423
Museums within 10 km2210
Museums within 2 km of centre178
Share of museums within 2 km %7780
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Marrakech leads by 30 points.30
MarrakechTromso
Score377
Drinking venues within 4 km28267
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre16161
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5791
Nightclubs within 4 km325
Nature & day trips. Marrakech leads by 41 points.41
MarrakechTromso
Score5211
Protected land share 50 km %9
Landscape blanket share 50 km %09
Land share of disc %10065
Park area within 2 km47 hectares7 hectares
Good for families. Marrakech leads by 39 points.39
MarrakechTromso
Score5314
Tourist attractions within 2 km289
Park area within 2 km47 hectares7 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km20
Sights concentration. Marrakech leads by 18 points.18
MarrakechTromso
Score4628
Notable places within 2 km5520
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Marrakech leads by 32 points.32
MarrakechTromso
Score8654
Price level global39.885.1
Daily budget€203
Year-round weather. Marrakech leads by 48 points.48
MarrakechTromso
Score8133
Monthly daytime high19.1 °C to 37.6 °C-1.1 °C to 16.3 °C
Monthly rainfall1 mm to 36 mm56 mm to 128 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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F
M
A
M
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J
A
S
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N
D
Daytime high, °C
Marrakech
19
21
24
26
30
34
38
37
33
29
23
20
Tromso
-1
-1
1
4
9
13
16
15
11
5
2
0
Sea temperature, °C
Marrakech
No coastline within reach
Tromso
5
5
4
4
6
8
10
11
10
9
7
6
Rainfall, mm
Marrakech
26
27
36
28
9
3
1
3
14
19
29
25
Tromso
108
95
97
71
56
57
73
90
110
128
94
110
Daylight, hours per day
Marrakech
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
11
10
Tromso
2
7
12
16
22
24
24
18
14
9
4
0
Sunshine, hours per day
Marrakech
8
8
8
9
10
11
11
10
9
8
8
7
Tromso
0
1
3
6
8
8
8
6
3
2
0
0

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Marrakech: 1991-2020 normals, Marrakech (5.1 km from centre). Tromso: 1991-2020 normals, Tromso (0.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMarrakechTromso
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 20 m
€140-172
RAK · 6 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
CopenhagenCPH
4 h 20 m
€165-220
2 stops
RAK · 6 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
HelsinkiHEL
5 h 25 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
3 h 10 m
€85-123
RAK · 6 km
3 h 35 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
5 h 0 m
€136-201
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
3 h 35 m
€144-224
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
BerlinBER
4 h 5 m
€180-258
2 stops
RAK · 6 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
ZurichZRH
3 h 20 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
3 h 40 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
3 h 10 m
€61-121
RAK · 6 km
3 h 55 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
ManchesterMAN
3 h 35 m
€124-167
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
3 h 10 m
no fares
TOS · 4 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

MeasureMarrakechTromso
Official languageArabic, Standard Moroccan TamazightNorwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, Sámi
CurrencyMoroccan Dirham (MAD)Norwegian Krone (NOK)
SocketsCE50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15Police 112, ambulance 113, fire 110
Elevation465 m20 m
Main airportMarrakesh Menara Airport (RAK)6 km from centre118 non-stop destinationsTromsø Airport (TOS)4 km from centre45 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureMarrakechTromso
City population1,002,69779,943
People per km²4,36032
Museums within 10 km148
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre5623
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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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. 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.