🇲🇦 Morocco or 🇪🇬 Egypt
Which one, honestly
Morocco leads on cities, food and nature. Egypt leads on the sea.
A normal day costs about $80 in Morocco and $75 in Egypt.
Side by side
- 🇲🇦 Morocco🇪🇬 Egypt
- Mar, Apr, May, Sep, OctBest monthsJan, Feb, Mar, Oct, Nov, Dec
- $80A normal day$75
- 3h 40m to MarrakeshNonstop from London5h 15m to Cairo
- GoodBeaches and seaVery good
- ExceptionalCities and cultureVery good
- Very goodFoodGood
- Very goodNature and hikingGood
- ExceptionalValue for moneyExceptional
- GoodEasy to get aroundGood
- Good trains along the coast, a driver for the mountains and the desertGetting aroundSleeper trains along the Nile and cheap domestic flights
- Marrakesh and the desert in July and August, when it passes 45CWhen to avoidUpper Egypt from June to August, when Luxor and Aswan are unbearable
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 Egypt if
you want the oldest thing on this list, a river trip through it, and Red Sea diving, at prices nowhere in Europe matches.
Full Morocco guide →Full Egypt 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.