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Essaouira

Essaouira is a coastal city in Morocco. It is known as the Windy City. Wikivoyage

Population 82,962 (Wikidata)

Live guide From your hotel

Before you go

Emergency numbers in Morocco

Visas and entry What your passport needs for Morocco
Tourist office · 180 m Office du Tourisme

Getting there

Remembered in this browser only, with the last few you used.

Best-documented sights

All of them in the guide

Within a kilometre of the centre, ordered by how well documented each is — not by a "best" anyone decided. Each opens on the map in the guide. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited there.

Through the year

  1. World Music Festival

    June

    In June. Dead link

    Official site

Annual events from Wikidata and Wikivoyage (Essaouira); descriptions from Wikipedia where it has one, photos from Wikimedia Commons. Dates move year to year — check before you plan around one.

Markets

  • Souk Jedid صوق جديد

    No hours mapped

    210 m from the centre

  • legumes

    No hours mapped

    1.9 km from the centre

  • Mercato all'aperto

    No hours mapped

    2.0 km from the centre

Markets mapped on OpenStreetMap, with their hours where someone has added them. Check locally before you go.

Eating nearby

All 96 places to eat

Somewhere to run

Getting around

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Places © OpenStreetMap contributors, as of 9 October 2026. Description from Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA). Events from Wikidata and Wikivoyage, population from Wikidata.