🇲🇦 Morocco or 🇨🇷 Costa Rica
Which one, honestly
Morocco leads on cities, value for money and food. Costa Rica leads on nature and the sea.
A normal day costs about $80 in Morocco and $130 in Costa Rica.
Side by side
- 🇲🇦 Morocco🇨🇷 Costa Rica
- Mar, Apr, May, Sep, OctBest monthsJan, Feb, Mar, Dec
- $80A normal day$130
- 1h 40m to MarrakeshNonstop from Madrid11h to San Jose
- GoodBeaches and seaVery good
- ExceptionalCities and cultureNot the draw
- Very goodFoodGood
- Very goodNature and hikingExceptional
- ExceptionalValue for moneyNot the draw
- GoodEasy to get aroundGood
- Good trains along the coast, a driver for the mountains and the desertGetting aroundA hire car with clearance, the distances are short but the roads are slow
- Marrakesh and the desert in July and August, when it passes 45CWhen to avoidSeptember and October on the Caribbean side, the wettest weeks of the year
Pick by what you want
🇲🇦 Choose Morocco if
you want somewhere that feels genuinely far away on a three hour flight from Europe, with mountains, desert and old cities in one trip.
🇨🇷 Choose Costa Rica if
you want wildlife above everything else, cloud forest and two oceans in one small country, and you accept it costs more than its neighbours.
Full Morocco guide →Full Costa Rica guide →
And what the world thinks
Dead even. The next vote breaks the tie.
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Written and checked by hand. Nothing here about visas or entry rules: those change often and depend on your passport, so check an official source.