Morocco Travel, Answered Honestly

Independent Morocco travel guides. Marrakech, Fes, the Sahara and the coast: how to plan them, the best months to visit Morocco, and what to watch for. Every guide carries the date we last checked it.

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We check everything ourselves

Every claim is checked against the primary source: the operator, the timetable, the official figure or the law, never another travel blog.

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We date every fact

Every guide shows when it was last verified, so you always know how fresh the advice you are reading is.

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We say when we do not know

A gap is stated as a gap, never papered over with borrowed claims or invented certainty.

Where we cover

The medina and the souks

The oldest medina in Morocco

Atlantic coast and long stays

The blue city in the Rif

Every guide carries the date we checked it

Advice with no date behind it is not information, it is marketing. Everything we publish says when it was last checked and where it comes from, so you can weigh it yourself.

We have no tour to sell you

We take no commission from Moroccan operators, riads or transport companies, and we do not run sponsored reviews. Nobody can pay to change a verdict or soften a safety warning.

Most Morocco travel advice is selling you something

Search almost any practical Morocco question and most of the first page is published by companies selling tours, rooms or transfers. The advice and the sales pitch come from the same hand.

Morocco tourism reached a record 19.8 million arrivals in 2025, up 14 percent on the year before, according to Ministry of Tourism figures published in January 2026. The advice serving those visitors is still written almost entirely by people with something to sell. That is not a market with bad information. It is a market where nobody neutral has done the work. So we are doing it.

Marco Delgado

Marco Delgado

Travel writer and digital nomad

A line of camels and riders crossing the dunes near Merzouga at dusk

What we publish

Morocco travel guides

Is Morocco safe? An honest look

The measures that get quoted, the risks that are real, and the one that actually matters on the ground: the road. Dated and sourced.

15 Morocco scams, with the exact script

How each one opens, how it escalates, and the one sentence that ends it politely.

10 days in Morocco: the route that works

Marrakech, Fes, the Sahara and Chefchaouen, without losing three days of the trip to the road.

What you actually need to enter Morocco

Who needs a visa, how long you are allowed to stay, and what is actually checked at the border in 2026.

Morocco 2026 to 2030: everything changing

New airports, high-speed rail and the World Cup build-out, and what all of it changes for your trip.

Found something that is wrong?

Morocco moves fast: rules, timetables and details change. If something here does not match what you found, tell us. We will re-check the source ourselves and republish with a new verification date.

How we make money

Some links earn us a commission when you book, at no extra cost to you, and we run display advertising. That is the whole of it.

Commission never decides what we recommend, and no partner sees a page before it publishes.

What we cannot do

We are a publication, not a travel agency. We cannot book your trip, arrange transport or act as your agent with an operator.

What we can do is tell you honestly what to expect before you go.

Asked on every trip

Before you go

Four questions, answered plainly, with the date each answer was last checked.

Do you need a visa to visit Morocco?

Most Western passports, including the EU, UK, US, Canada and Australia, enter visa-free for up to 90 days. What actually gets checked at the border is simpler than most blogs make it sound.

Check the full entry rules

Is Morocco safe in 2026?

Yes, on the measures that get quoted. Morocco scored zero on the 2026 Global Terrorism Index, joint 100th of 163 countries (Institute for Economics and Peace, March 2026), and Marrakech has a lower Numbeo crime index than London. The real risk is the road: 4,577 people died in Moroccan traffic in 2025.

Read the full safety assessment

When is the best time to visit Morocco?

Late March to May, or September to early November. Those windows give you the imperial cities and the desert without the heat, and the coast is still warm. Avoid high summer inland: July averages 37.7 degrees in Marrakech, which makes Fes and Merzouga genuinely unpleasant.

See the full planning guide

How do you book a Sahara desert tour safely?

Book with a licensed operator, confirm in writing what is included, and never hand over the full amount in cash up front. Eight specific checks protect you from the common failures.

Run the eight checks