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Morocco

21 cities in the atlas · 17 airports with scheduled flights

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Photo: Subhros · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Capital: Rabat
Currency: MAD; Moroccan Dirham
Local time: Western European Standard TimeUTC+00:00
Calling code: +212
Driving: On the right
Plugs: Type C and E

Facts

Morocco in figures

From named datasets: GeoNames, CLDR, the World Bank and Wikidata. Each is credited at the foot of the page.

Capital: Rabat
Currency: Moroccan Dirham MADToday's indicative rate: MAD 1 ≈ USD 0.102Indicative, from the day's reference rates; a bank or card will charge its own.
Languages: Official: Arabic and Standard Moroccan TamazightSpoken: Arabic, Tamazight and French
Time zones: Western European Standard TimeUTC+00:00
Calling code: +212
Driving: On the right
Plugs: Type C and E127 V / 220 V · 50 HzAs recorded in Wikidata.
Emergency numbers: 112police15ambulance and fire177police19policeAs recorded in Wikidata. Check them locally on arrival; they are not the only safety information you need.
Population: 38,430,770 (2025, World Bank)
Area: 446,550 km²
Internet domain: .ma
Land borders: Algeria Spain Western Sahara

When to go

Climate across Morocco

In March to December, more than half of the 13 cities with figures in Morocco have a mean high between 18°C and 32°C and under 150 mm of rain.

Mild to warm and dry
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The main cities, month by month
City	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sept	Oct	Nov	Dec
Rabat	17°	17°	19°	20°	23°	26°	27°	28°	27°	24°	20°	18°
Casablanca	17°	18°	20°	21°	24°	27°	29°	30°	27°	25°	21°	18°
Marrakesh	17°	18°	22°	24°	28°	33°	38°	37°	32°	27°	21°	18°
Tangier	16°	16°	17°	18°	21°	24°	26°	27°	25°	22°	18°	16°
Fes	15°	17°	20°	23°	27°	32°	37°	37°	32°	27°	20°	17°
Agadir	20°	21°	24°	25°	29°	32°	37°	36°	31°	28°	23°	20°
Meknes	16°	18°	21°	23°	27°	32°	36°	37°	32°	27°	20°	17°
Tétouan	15°	16°	18°	20°	24°	28°	32°	32°	28°	24°	19°	16°
Oujda	12°	14°	17°	21°	25°	30°	35°	34°	28°	24°	17°	13°
Salé	17°	17°	19°	20°	23°	26°	27°	28°	27°	24°	20°	18°
Cities good for going, of 13	1	4	9	13	13	9	7	7	10	13	12	7

Mean daily highs, modelled for an area about 50 km across: NASA POWER climatology, 2001–2020. A cell's swatch says what the month is like (key above).

On the map

Where Morocco is

The dashed box is the extent of the country's main landmass, from Natural Earth; outlying islands fall outside it. The dots are the cities with pages of their own.

Land borders

Cities

Cities in Morocco

All 21 places in the atlas: capitals, cities of 300,000 people or more, the places its airports serve, and the ones we have written guides to.

Airports

Airports in Morocco

Airports with scheduled flights and an IATA code, from OurAirports.

Large airports

Medium airports · 5

Photographs

Morocco in pictures

Photographs from Wikimedia Commons, each credited to its author, with its licence.

Rabat
Photo: Pline · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Casablanca
Photo: Иерей Максим Массалитин from Rabat, Maroc · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Marrakesh
Photo: Donar Reiskoffer · CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Guides

Our guides in Morocco

Morocco
Marrakech

Visas and entry

Entry rules depend on your passport and change often, so this page does not state them. Check the destination government's official immigration website, or ask our visa desk to check your case for you.

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Plan it

Plan a trip to Morocco

Tell us where in Morocco, when and who is travelling, and a person puts the flights, the stays and the rest into one quote.

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Sources for this page

All sources and licences

GeoNames — Place data © GeoNames (geonames.org), CC BY 4.0.
OurAirports — Airport data from OurAirports (ourairports.com), public domain.
NASA POWER (Prediction Of Worldwide Energy Resources), Climatology API v2 — These data were obtained from the NASA Langley Research Center (LaRC) POWER Project funded through the NASA Earth Science/Applied Science Program.
Wikidata — Facts from Wikidata (wikidata.org), CC0.
Wikimedia Commons — Each photograph's author and licence are printed beside it.
Unicode CLDR 48.2.2 (cldr-json) — Unicode CLDR data, © Unicode, Inc., Unicode License v3.
Natural Earth v5.1.2, 1:10m admin-0 map units — Made with Natural Earth. Licence: Public domain
World Bank, World Development Indicators: Population, total (SP.POP.TOTL) — Population: World Bank, World Development Indicators (SP.POP.TOTL), CC BY 4.0.