VacationSelector

Marrakech or Vancouver?

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 and year-round weather with your weighting.

Vancouver
✓ Best match
57
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips 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.

MarrakechVancouver
Beaches & swimming. Vancouver leads by 60 points.60
MarrakechVancouver
Score060
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km0109
Coast distance134 km1 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Vancouver leads by 20 points.20
MarrakechVancouver
Score5474
Restaurants within 2 km of centre4611,330
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2635
Museums & heritage. Marrakech leads by 10 points.10
MarrakechVancouver
Score4434
Museums within 10 km2227
Museums within 2 km of centre1715
Share of museums within 2 km %7756
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Vancouver leads by 20 points.20
MarrakechVancouver
Score3757
Drinking venues within 4 km282848
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre161602
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5771
Nightclubs within 4 km3244
Nature & day trips. Vancouver leads by 25 points.25
MarrakechVancouver
Score5277
Protected land share 50 km %19
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10060
Park area within 2 km47 hectares103 hectares
Good for families. Marrakech and Vancouver are level on 53.
MarrakechVancouver
Score5353
Tourist attractions within 2 km2815
Park area within 2 km47 hectares103 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km23
Sights concentration. Vancouver leads by 2 points.2
MarrakechVancouver
Score4648
Notable places within 2 km5563
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Marrakech leads by 32 points.32
MarrakechVancouver
Score8654
Price level global39.884
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Marrakech leads by 28 points.28
MarrakechVancouver
Score8153
Monthly daytime high19.1 °C to 37.6 °C7.3 °C to 23 °C
Monthly rainfall1 mm to 36 mm42 mm to 245 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
Vancouver
7
8
11
14
18
20
23
23
19
14
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Marrakech
No coastline within reach
Vancouver
7
7
8
10
12
14
16
16
14
11
9
8
Rainfall, mm
Marrakech
26
27
36
28
9
3
1
3
14
19
29
25
Vancouver
237
121
164
114
73
65
42
49
71
155
245
196
Daylight, hours per day
Marrakech
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
11
10
Vancouver
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Marrakech
8
8
8
9
10
11
11
10
9
8
8
7
Vancouver
2
3
4
6
8
7
10
9
7
4
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Marrakech: 1991-2020 normals, Marrakech (5.1 km from centre). Vancouver: 1991-2020 normals, Vancouver Harbour CS (4.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMarrakechVancouver
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 20 m
€140-172
RAK · 6 km
9 h 35 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
3 h 10 m
€85-123
RAK · 6 km
10 h 0 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
3 h 35 m
€144-224
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
10 h 10 m
€743-810
1 stop
YVR · 9 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 25 m
€549-632
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
5 h 0 m
€219-262
2 stops
YVR · 9 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
5 h 15 m
€353-356
YVR · 9 km
DublinDUB
3 h 30 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
9 h 5 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
AmsterdamAMS
3 h 40 m
€201-233
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
9 h 45 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
AtlantaATL, PDK
8 h 55 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
4 h 55 m
no fares
YVR · 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

MeasureMarrakechVancouver
Official languageArabic, Standard Moroccan TamazightFrench, English
CurrencyMoroccan Dirham (MAD)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsCE50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1UTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15911
Elevation465 m2 m
Main airportMarrakesh Menara Airport (RAK)6 km from centre118 non-stop destinationsVancouver International Airport (YVR)9 km from centre99 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureMarrakechVancouver
City population1,002,697662,248
People per km²4,3605,759
Museums within 10 km1426
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre5685
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. 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.