Marrakech scores 5.0/10 on overall safety. V-Dem rates Morocco 67/100 on how equally social groups are treated in law, but institutional equality and street-level experience can differ. Here's what the data and real reviews say.
Marrakech scores 5.0/10, in the mostly-safe range. It is generally fine, with a few precautions depending on the neighborhood and time of day.
V-Dem rates Morocco at 67/100 on how equally social and ethnic groups are treated in civil liberties, in the mid range. It reflects laws and institutions, not street-level experiences, which can differ by neighborhood. The reviews below add the ground-level view.
There is no global index of how safe a city is specifically for Black travelers, and we won't invent one. This page combines the city's overall safety score, a structural equality indicator from V-Dem, and, where Black travelers have reviewed Marrakech, their own words. Together they give a fuller, honest picture than any single number.
Every score on this page comes from official indicators and the safety model, not from AI-generated text. Where travelers who share your profile have reviewed Marrakech, you'll find their words below. Last reviewed 2026.
Sources: Georgetown WPS Index, Equaldex, UNESCO, World Bank, OpenStreetMap (ODbL), Wikidata (CC0) and MapSur community reviews. How we score
Social-group equality data: Social group equality in civil liberties (v2clsocgrp), v16, V-Dem (Varieties of Democracy), University of Gothenburg, via Our World in Data. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0; values normalized by MapSur. Source.
Recent reviews of Marrakech from the MapSur community.
Marrakech is sensory overload in the best and worst way. The medina is magical but exhausting. As an Asian woman I got a lot of unwanted attention and was called "Chinese" multiple times which was ann…
En tant que femme noire et musulmane, Marrakech m'a accueillie à bras ouverts. Les gens me parlaient en darija, pensant que j'étais locale. La chaleur humaine est incroyable. Les mosquées sont magnifi…
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Marrakech scores 5.0/10 on general safety (crime, all visitors). That number doesn't capture racism specifically, so for Black travelers it's a starting point, not the answer. The structural equality indicator and the reviews from Black travelers on this page fill that gap.
It's V-Dem's measure of how equally social and ethnic groups are treated in civil liberties in Morocco (67/100). It reflects laws and institutions, not day-to-day street experiences, which is why the reviews from Black travelers on this page matter alongside it.
