VacationSelector

Marrakech or Zurich?

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.

Zurich
44
match

Wins on nightlife and places to eat 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.

MarrakechZurich
Beaches & swimming. Marrakech and Zurich are level on 0.
MarrakechZurich
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km023
Coast distance134 km632 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Zurich leads by 13 points.13
MarrakechZurich
Score5467
Restaurants within 2 km of centre461974
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2630
Museums & heritage. Zurich leads by 12 points.12
MarrakechZurich
Score4456
Museums within 10 km2276
Museums within 2 km of centre1737
Share of museums within 2 km %7749
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Zurich leads by 17 points.17
MarrakechZurich
Score3754
Drinking venues within 4 km282676
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre161553
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5782
Nightclubs within 4 km3274
Nature & day trips. Marrakech leads by 15 points.15
MarrakechZurich
Score5237
Protected land share 50 km %16
Landscape blanket share 50 km %09
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km47 hectares48 hectares
Good for families. Marrakech leads by 17 points.17
MarrakechZurich
Score5336
Tourist attractions within 2 km288
Park area within 2 km47 hectares48 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km22
Sights concentration. Zurich leads by 13 points.13
MarrakechZurich
Score4659
Notable places within 2 km55119
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Marrakech leads by 51 points.51
MarrakechZurich
Score8635
Price level global39.8110.5
Daily budget€248
Year-round weather. Marrakech leads by 28 points.28
MarrakechZurich
Score8153
Monthly daytime high19.1 °C to 37.6 °C3.6 °C to 24.3 °C
Monthly rainfall1 mm to 36 mm60 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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A
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Daytime high, °C
Marrakech
19
21
24
26
30
34
38
37
33
29
23
20
Zurich
4
5
10
15
19
22
24
24
19
14
8
4
Rainfall, mm
Marrakech
26
27
36
28
9
3
1
3
14
19
29
25
Zurich
62
60
71
80
126
128
126
119
87
85
76
84
Daylight, hours per day
Marrakech
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
11
10
Zurich
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Marrakech
8
8
8
9
10
11
11
10
9
8
8
7
Zurich
2
3
5
6
6
7
7
7
5
3
2
1

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Marrakech: 1991-2020 normals, Marrakech (5.1 km from centre). Zurich: 1991-2020 normals, Zurich Town / Ville. (2.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMarrakechZurich
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 20 m
€140-172
RAK · 6 km
1 h 35 m
€110-163
ZRH · 9 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
3 h 10 m
€85-123
RAK · 6 km
1 h 15 m
€163-196
ZRH · 9 km
MadridMAD
1 h 55 m
€64-110
RAK · 6 km
2 h 5 m
€158-220
1 stop
ZRH · 9 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 20 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
1 h 40 m
€114-151
ZRH · 9 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
3 h 30 m
€122-160
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
ZRH · 9 km
BerlinBER
4 h 5 m
€180-258
2 stops
RAK · 6 km
1 h 25 m
€140-176
ZRH · 9 km
LisbonLIS
1 h 35 m
€64-110
RAK · 6 km
2 h 40 m
€188-233
ZRH · 9 km
AmsterdamAMS
3 h 40 m
€201-233
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
1 h 25 m
€234-276
ZRH · 9 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
3 h 35 m
€144-224
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
ZRH · 9 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
no fares
RAK · 6 km
8 h 5 m
€606-782
1 stop
ZRH · 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

MeasureMarrakechZurich
Official languageArabic, Standard Moroccan TamazightFrench, German, Italian, Romansh
CurrencyMoroccan Dirham (MAD)Swiss Franc (CHF)
SocketsCE50 HzCJ230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15112
Elevation465 m408 m
Main airportMarrakesh Menara Airport (RAK)6 km from centre118 non-stop destinationsZürich Airport (ZRH)9 km from centre181 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureMarrakechZurich
City population1,002,697452,421
People per km²4,3605,147
Museums within 10 km1463
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre5678

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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. 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.