Marrakech Map: Every Sight, Free Spot and Quarter on One Screen

Blue, ticketed. Thirteen pins where somebody sells a ticket. The fare printed on the pin is what an international adult pays at the window; every one of these venues also publishes a lower Moroccan or resident rate, and several publish a child rate, which is set out on the tickets index and, for families, on Marrakech with kids.

Green, free. Six pins that charge nothing to enter, including the two things most visitors remember: Jemaa el-Fna and the souk lanes running north of it. Free does not mean costless. Performers on the square solicit payment directly and no authority publishes a tariff for any of it, which is the whole argument of Marrakech for free.

Grey, quarters. Four pins that are districts rather than doors: the medina, the Kasbah, Gueliz and Hivernage. A grey pin marks a centroid, not an entrance, so it is a routing aid and nothing more.

Ochre, arrival. One pin, Menara airport, 5.3 km from the square. It is on the map because the first journey of the trip is the one people plan on a map, and because the taxi tariff for it is genuinely contested: a prefectural decision of 2023 sets seven distance zones from 100 MAD, while the official destination guide still prints 70 MAD by day. The board at the rank is the object that settles it.

North of Jemaa el-Fna the lanes climb through the souks to a tight cluster: the Ben Youssef Madrasa, the Almoravid Koubba and the Musee de Marrakech stand within two hundred metres of one another, with the Maison de la Photographie a few turns east and Le Jardin Secret back down Rue Mouassine. That is five pins, four of them ticketed, and the walk between the furthest two is under ten minutes if you do not stop.

• South east, Bahia Palace and Dar Si Said sit five minutes apart on the same side of the medina.
• South, inside the Kasbah walls, El Badi Palace and the Saadian Tombs are four hundred metres apart.
• West, the Koutoubia esplanade is the shortest walk on the map at 470 metres from the square.
• North east, the tanneries at Bab Debbagh are the outer edge of comfortable walking at 1.3 km.

Why the walking figures on this page are ours

No Moroccan authority publishes walking times between these places, and no venue publishes a visit length either, with one exception: Le Jardin Secret states 45 minutes to two and a half hours for its own garden. Everything else in the table is a straight-line distance from a published coordinate, with roughly a third added because the medina does not run in straight lines. Treat the figures as a routing aid, not a promise.

On a July afternoon, when the mean daily high is 36.6 °C, add more.

Jardin Majorelle and the Musee Yves Saint Laurent stand on the same street on the Gueliz edge, 2.2 km from the square: walkable in about 40 minutes, and a short petit taxi ride otherwise. Take them together, remembering that the museum shuts on Wednesdays while the garden does not, which is the single most common wasted journey in this city.

The Menara basin is 3.4 km west, an easy taxi and a hot walk. The Palmeraie is 7.2 km north east and only makes sense with a reason to be there, usually a camel hour in the groves listed at $21.01. Agafay at 24.8 km and ANIMA at 29.3 km are half-day trips by road, and the Agafay evening, listed at $16.59 for the sunset camel and dinner run, is the one most people take.

The rides that link them

There is no metro, no tram and no lawful ride-hailing app in Marrakech, so movement between the outlying pins is a metered petit taxi, a licensed grand taxi or a booked transfer. Getting around sets out which is which and why the meter, not a quoted price, is the passenger's protection.

Medina addresses are derb names and door numbers rather than street numbers, roofed sections of souk block the sky and therefore the signal, and the lanes bend enough that a phone often points confidently at a wall. The practical technique is to navigate between the pins on this map rather than to a door: aim for the Koutoubia, for Jemaa el-Fna, for the madrasa, and take the last hundred metres by eye.

Guides, badges and the one thing an authority does say

The UK Foreign Office states plainly that it is common for people posing as official tourist guides to harass tourists, and that a guide in a medina quarter should carry an official badge and permission from the local authority. That is the authority-level position, printed in full on safety and scams. A booked walk such as the souks guided circuit, listed at $17.90, is the version where the badge question is already settled.

- The Mellah has no pin. The Wikidata item for the quarter carries no coordinate and no Moroccan source published one, so there is a numbered gap where the historic Jewish quarter should be. (Wikidata Q101034972, checked in Q3 2026) - There are no restaurant pins. There is no MICHELIN Guide restaurant selection for Morocco at all, only a hotel one, so this guide names almost no restaurants and will not pin what it cannot cite. The reasoning is on where to eat.

(guide.michelin.com, Morocco listed under Hotels and Stays only) - The souks pin is the medina pin. No official coordinate exists for the souks as an entity, so the map repeats the medina centroid rather than inventing a point. (No Wikidata item exists for Souk Semmarine or for the souks) - No hours on two pins. The Musee de Marrakech and the tanneries publish neither price nor hours anywhere reachable, so their pins say so. (museedemarrakech.ma unreachable, in Q3 2026)

Every coordinate on this page is a published one. Most come from the Wikidata item for the place, fetched and confirmed item by item rather than searched by name, which is how the guide caught that Marrakech itself is Q101625 and not the item a first search returns. The Menara pavilion coordinate comes from the Ministry of Culture's own ticketing page, and the medina coordinate is the centroid of UNESCO World Heritage property 331, inscribed in 1985 on four cultural criteria with 1,107 hectares inside the ramparts.

Distances are great-circle calculations between those coordinates, not driving distances, and the difference matters most at the far end: the road to ANIMA is longer than the 29.3 km straight line, and the road to Ouzoud is very much longer than its 127.6 km. Day trips are deliberately off this map for that reason and live on day trips instead, each with its own map.