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Casablanca or Marrakech?

200 km apart, both in Morocco. Each is scored month by month on the same ten years of climate readings, the public holidays that crowd it, and what the flight costs. This is where they part, and when.

Casablanca is the better pick in April to October; Marrakech in February to March; either in November to January.

Month by month

Month JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Casablanca 18° 5d 20° 5d 20° 8d 23° 5d 26° 2d 28° 1d 31° 0d 32° 0d 29° 1d 28° 3d 23° 5d 19° 5d
Marrakech 20° 4d 22° 4d 24° 6d 27° 4d 31° 1d 34° 0d 39° 0d 39° 0d 34° 0d 30° 2d 25° 3d 21° 4d
Pick eitherMarrakechMarrakechCasablancaCasablancaCasablancaCasablancaCasablancaCasablancaCasablancaeithereither

Each cell is that destination's own verdict for the month — sweet spot, ok or avoid — with its typical daily high and its rainy days ("11d"). The pick goes to the better verdict; with the same verdict, to the higher score, unless the two are within a whisker of each other, when it is either. A month both would avoid is neither. A dot marks a busy month.

Before you go

Both are in Morocco, so the currency, the plugs and the travel advice are the same: type C and E plugs, driving on the right, paying in the Moroccan dirham. Everything for Morocco.

Between them

200 km as the crow flies, about 1h 10m in the air.

The flight time is estimated from the distance. A road, train or bus is named only where it was measured — flights from AeroDataBox, roads from OpenRouteService, timetables via Transitous — and none of it is a fare; the searches on each destination's page are where prices live.

Also compared

Every verdict here is the destination's own: ten years of climate readings, the public holidays that crowd it, and what the flight costs. The comparison is the difference between two pages, not a third opinion.