VacationSelector

Marrakech or York?

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

York
41
match

Wins on nightlife and museums & heritage 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.

MarrakechYork
Beaches & swimming. Marrakech and York are level on 0.
MarrakechYork
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km02
Coast distance134 km50 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Marrakech and York are level on 54.
MarrakechYork
Score5454
Restaurants within 2 km of centre461361
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2631
Museums & heritage. York leads by 2 points.2
MarrakechYork
Score4446
Museums within 10 km2218
Museums within 2 km of centre1716
Share of museums within 2 km %7789
Unesco sites within 50 km12
Nightlife. York leads by 6 points.6
MarrakechYork
Score3743
Drinking venues within 4 km282450
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre161353
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5778
Nightclubs within 4 km3214
Nature & day trips. Marrakech leads by 19 points.19
MarrakechYork
Score5233
Protected land share 50 km %17
Landscape blanket share 50 km %016
Land share of disc %10095
Park area within 2 km47 hectares42 hectares
Good for families. Marrakech leads by 10 points.10
MarrakechYork
Score5343
Tourist attractions within 2 km2813
Park area within 2 km47 hectares42 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km23
Sights concentration. Marrakech leads by 7 points.7
MarrakechYork
Score4639
Notable places within 2 km5537
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Marrakech leads by 32 points.32
MarrakechYork
Score8654
Price level global39.884.9
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Marrakech leads by 25 points.25
MarrakechYork
Score8156
Monthly daytime high19.1 °C to 37.6 °C6.7 °C to 20.9 °C
Monthly rainfall1 mm to 36 mm39 mm to 66 mm
Dry months121
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
York
7
8
10
13
16
19
21
20
18
14
10
7
Rainfall, mm
Marrakech
26
27
36
28
9
3
1
3
14
19
29
25
York
53
44
39
48
43
61
56
65
58
66
62
60
Daylight, hours per day
Marrakech
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
11
10
York
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Marrakech
8
8
8
9
10
11
11
10
9
8
8
7
York
2
3
4
5
6
5
6
5
4
3
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). York: 1991-2020 normals, Leeming (47.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMarrakechYork
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
3 h 10 m
€85-123
RAK · 6 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 20 m
€140-172
RAK · 6 km
55 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 20 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
4 h 30 m
€148-173
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
TenerifeTFS, TFN
1 h 45 m
€102-113
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
4 h 20 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
BucharestOTP, BBU
4 h 30 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
MalagaAGP
1 h 25 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
3 h 30 m
€122-160
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
3 h 10 m
€61-121
RAK · 6 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
NantesNTE
2 h 50 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
MAN · 104 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

MeasureMarrakechYork
Official languageArabic, Standard Moroccan TamazightEnglish
CurrencyMoroccan Dirham (MAD)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsCE50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1UTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15112 or 999
Elevation465 m25 m
Main airportMarrakesh Menara Airport (RAK)6 km from centre118 non-stop destinationsLeeds Bradford Airport (LBA)39 km from centre73 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureMarrakechYork
City population1,002,697208,400
People per km²4,360766
Museums within 10 km1424
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Distinct cuisines in the centre5654

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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. 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.