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Rabat

Rabat, literally "Fortified Place", is the capital city of Morocco. The city of Rabat is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Wikivoyage

Population 515,619 (Wikidata)

Live guide From your hotel

Before you go

Emergency numbers in Morocco

Visas and entry What your passport needs for Morocco

Getting there

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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. Mawazine

    May

    Mawazine is a festival of world music that takes place annually in Rabat featuring Arab, African and international musicians during May.

  2. Jazz au Chellah

    June

    Jazz au Chellah is a jazz festival organized each year in June by the ministry of culture, the city and the European delegation. The website might have some issues

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

Markets

  • Marché aux grains

    Covered hall
    1. Monday: 08:30–19:00
    2. Tuesday: 08:30–19:00
    3. Wednesday: 08:30–19:00
    4. Thursday: 08:30–19:00
    5. Friday: closed
    6. Saturday: 08:30–19:00
    7. Sunday: 08:30–19:00

    08:30–19:00

    2.4 km from the centre

  • Marché municipal

    No hours mapped

    460 m from the centre

  • Souk d'Akkari

    No hours mapped

    1.9 km from the centre

  • Yacoub Al Mansour

    No hours mapped

    2.3 km from the centre

  • Ancien Marché de Gros

    Covered hall

    No hours mapped

    2.4 km from the centre

  • Marché El Kamra (Souk de Kamra) سوق القامرة

    No hours mapped

    2.4 km from the centre

  • Marché youssoufia

    Covered hall

    No hours mapped

    2.7 km from the centre

  • Central Market

    Marché central

    Covered hall

    No hours mapped

    2.9 km from the centre

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

Eating nearby

All 35 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.