VacationSelector

Marrakech or Washington DC?

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, 2 points apart

Marrakech
50
match

Wins on value for money and year-round weather with your weighting.

Washington DC
52
match

Wins on sights concentration 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.

MarrakechWashington DC
Beaches & swimming. Washington DC leads by 18 points.18
MarrakechWashington DC
Score018
Swim season months03
Beaches 10 km01
Coast distance134 km34 km
Water distance34 km
Places to eat. Washington DC leads by 23 points.23
MarrakechWashington DC
Score5477
Restaurants within 2 km of centre4611,666
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2636
Museums & heritage. Washington DC leads by 11 points.11
MarrakechWashington DC
Score4455
Museums within 10 km2283
Museums within 2 km of centre1755
Share of museums within 2 km %7766
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Washington DC leads by 24 points.24
MarrakechWashington DC
Score3761
Drinking venues within 4 km2821,029
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre161593
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5758
Nightclubs within 4 km3254
Nature & day trips. Marrakech leads by 10 points.10
MarrakechWashington DC
Score5242
Protected land share 50 km %10
Landscape blanket share 50 km %01
Land share of disc %10094
Park area within 2 km47 hectares96 hectares
Good for families. Marrakech leads by 15 points.15
MarrakechWashington DC
Score5338
Tourist attractions within 2 km287
Park area within 2 km47 hectares96 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km21
Sights concentration. Washington DC leads by 30 points.30
MarrakechWashington DC
Score4676
Notable places within 2 km55305
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Marrakech leads by 43 points.43
MarrakechWashington DC
Score8643
Price level global39.8100
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Marrakech leads by 19 points.19
MarrakechWashington DC
Score8162
Monthly daytime high19.1 °C to 37.6 °C7 °C to 31.7 °C
Monthly rainfall1 mm to 36 mm65 mm to 108 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
Washington DC
7
9
13
20
24
29
32
31
27
21
14
9
Sea temperature, °C
Marrakech
No coastline within reach
Washington DC
3
3
4
9
14
20
25
26
23
18
12
7
Rainfall, mm
Marrakech
26
27
36
28
9
3
1
3
14
19
29
25
Washington DC
72
65
89
82
101
107
108
83
100
93
74
86
Daylight, hours per day
Marrakech
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
11
10
Washington DC
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Marrakech
8
8
8
9
10
11
11
10
9
8
8
7
Washington DC
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Marrakech: 1991-2020 normals, Marrakech (5.1 km from centre). Washington DC: 1991-2020 normals, Washington National Airport (5 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMarrakechWashington DC
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 20 m
€140-172
RAK · 6 km
7 h 35 m
€507-561
1 stop
IAD · 37 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
3 h 10 m
€85-123
RAK · 6 km
8 h 0 m
no fares
IAD · 37 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
1 h 5 m
€233-271
DCA · 5 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
3 h 30 m
€122-160
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
8 h 0 m
no fares
IAD · 37 km
AtlantaATL, PDK
8 h 55 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
1 h 40 m
€267-307
1 stop
DCA · 5 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 20 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
8 h 20 m
no fares
IAD · 37 km
MadridMAD
1 h 55 m
€64-110
RAK · 6 km
7 h 50 m
no fares
IAD · 37 km
LisbonLIS
1 h 35 m
€64-110
RAK · 6 km
7 h 25 m
no fares
IAD · 37 km
NiceNCE
2 h 55 m
€174-200
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
8 h 40 m
no fares
IAD · 37 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
3 h 35 m
€144-224
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
8 h 20 m
no fares
IAD · 37 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

MeasureMarrakechWashington DC
Official languageArabic, Standard Moroccan Tamazight
CurrencyMoroccan Dirham (MAD)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCE50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15911
Elevation465 m72 m
Main airportMarrakesh Menara Airport (RAK)6 km from centre118 non-stop destinationsRonald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA)5 km from centre103 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureMarrakechWashington DC
City population1,002,697689,545
People per km²4,3603,896
Museums within 10 km1499
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre5682
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 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. 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.