VacationSelector

Marrakech or Venice?

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 nature & day trips and value for money with your weighting.

Venice
✓ Best match
57
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and sights concentration 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.

MarrakechVenice
Beaches & swimming. Venice leads by 69 points.69
MarrakechVenice
Score069
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km020
Coast distance134 km4 km
Water distance4 km
Places to eat. Marrakech leads by 9 points.9
MarrakechVenice
Score5445
Restaurants within 2 km of centre461750
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2610
Museums & heritage. Venice leads by 28 points.28
MarrakechVenice
Score4472
Museums within 10 km2257
Museums within 2 km of centre1745
Share of museums within 2 km %7779
Unesco sites within 50 km15
Nightlife. Marrakech leads by 2 points.2
MarrakechVenice
Score3735
Drinking venues within 4 km282342
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre161306
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5789
Nightclubs within 4 km323
Nature & day trips. Marrakech leads by 35 points.35
MarrakechVenice
Score5217
Protected land share 50 km %4
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10070
Park area within 2 km47 hectares15 hectares
Good for families. Venice leads by 4 points.4
MarrakechVenice
Score5357
Tourist attractions within 2 km2872
Park area within 2 km47 hectares15 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km23
Sights concentration. Venice leads by 37 points.37
MarrakechVenice
Score4683
Notable places within 2 km55464
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Marrakech leads by 18 points.18
MarrakechVenice
Score8668
Price level global39.864.9
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Marrakech leads by 15 points.15
MarrakechVenice
Score8166
Monthly daytime high19.1 °C to 37.6 °C8 °C to 30.4 °C
Monthly rainfall1 mm to 36 mm36 mm to 106 mm
Dry months122
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
Venice
8
10
15
19
24
28
30
30
25
19
13
8
Sea temperature, °C
Marrakech
No coastline within reach
Venice
10
9
10
14
18
23
25
26
23
19
16
13
Rainfall, mm
Marrakech
26
27
36
28
9
3
1
3
14
19
29
25
Venice
38
36
54
78
91
75
65
74
106
89
95
60
Daylight, hours per day
Marrakech
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
11
10
Venice
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Marrakech
8
8
8
9
10
11
11
10
9
8
8
7
Venice
3
4
5
6
7
8
10
9
6
4
3
3

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Marrakech: 1991-2020 normals, Marrakech (5.1 km from centre). Venice: 1991-2020 normals, Treviso / S. Angelo (26.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMarrakechVenice
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 20 m
€140-172
RAK · 6 km
2 h 0 m
€46-119
1 stop
VCE · 7 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
3 h 10 m
€85-123
RAK · 6 km
1 h 40 m
€68-109
VCE · 7 km
MadridMAD
1 h 55 m
€64-110
RAK · 6 km
2 h 20 m
€102-159
VCE · 7 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 20 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
1 h 45 m
€41-56
VCE · 7 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
3 h 30 m
€122-160
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
1 h 40 m
€44-65
TSF · 26 km
AmsterdamAMS
3 h 40 m
€201-233
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
1 h 45 m
€190-215
1 stop
VCE · 7 km
RomeFCO, CIA
3 h 10 m
€115-186
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
1 h 10 m
€81-119
VCE · 7 km
ManchesterMAN
3 h 35 m
€124-167
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
2 h 15 m
€79-96
VCE · 7 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
3 h 35 m
€144-224
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
1 h 20 m
€136-186
1 stop
VCE · 7 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
8 h 30 m
€637-650
VCE · 7 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

MeasureMarrakechVenice
Official languageArabic, Standard Moroccan TamazightItalian
CurrencyMoroccan Dirham (MAD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15112
Elevation465 m2 m
Main airportMarrakesh Menara Airport (RAK)6 km from centre118 non-stop destinationsVenice Marco Polo Airport (VCE)7 km from centre98 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureMarrakechVenice
City population1,002,697250,369
People per km²4,360602
Museums within 10 km1452
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km15
Distinct cuisines in the centre5646
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 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.