Casablanca-Settat · Morocco
Where to stay in Casablanca
Casablanca is a city in Casablanca-Settat, Morocco, home to about 3,216,000 people. This guide covers 4 hotels in Casablanca.
- Places to stay in this guide
- 4
- Best months
- February to December
- Nearest airport
- CMN26 km · Mohammed V International Airport
- Currency
- MADMoroccan dirham
- Time zone
- Africa/Casablanca
- Language
- Arabic, Standard Moroccan Tamazight
About
About Casablanca
Casablanca is the largest city in Morocco and the country's economic and business centre. Located on the Atlantic coast of the Chaouia plain in the central-western part of Morocco, the city has a population of about 3.22 million in the urban area, and over 4.27 million in Greater Casablanca, making it the most populous city in the Maghreb region, and the ninth-largest in the Arab world.
The modern city of Casablanca was founded by Berber fishermen in the 10th century BCE, and was used by the Phoenicians, Romans, and the Merenids as a strategic port called Anfa. The Portuguese destroyed it and rebuilt it under the name Casa Branca, only to abandon it after an earthquake in 1755. The Moroccan sultan rebuilt the city as Daru l-Badya and it was given the name Casablanca by Spanish traders who established trading bases there. The French occupied the city in 1907, establishing it as a protectorate in 1912 and starting construction of the ville nouvelle.
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Things to do
What to see and do in Casablanca
See
Almost all of the things to see in Casablanca are in the north of the city; very few maps even show the southern end of this sprawling metropolis.
- King Hassan II Mosque
- Old Medina
- The Corniche
- Shrine of Sidi Abderrahman
- Mahkama du Pacha
- Central Post Office
- Museum of Moroccan Judaism
- Villa des Arts
- Galérie d'art l'Atelier 21
- Galerie Shart
- Loft Art Gallery
- Galérie Nadar
Do
- Solidarité Féminine Association's Hammam
- Stade Mohammed V
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Where to stay
Places to stay in Casablanca
4 places to stay from the chains this guide covers, each linked to its own website.
| Place to stay |
|---|
| Barceló Anfa Casablanca hotel |
| Barceló Casablanca hotel |
| Occidental Casablanca Medina hotel |
| Royal Hideaway Casablanca hotel |
Schematic: the city centre in orange, each place to stay as a dot, distance rings in kilometres.
Where to stay
More hotels in Casablanca
62 hotels within 25 km of the centre, as recorded in Wikidata; the 40 best known are shown, by the number of Wikipedia editions that cover them. Each name links to its encyclopedia article where there is one.
| Hotel | Opened | From centre |
|---|---|---|
| Hôtel Excelsior | 1918 | 0.5 km |
| Hyatt Regency Casablanca Hyatt Hotels Corporation | 0.4 km | |
| Royal Mansour Casablanca | 1952 | 0.6 km |
| Hotel Farah | 0.9 km | |
| Hotel Volubilis | 1.0 km | |
| Aparthotel Adagio Casablanca City Center | 2.7 km | |
| Art Palace Suites & Spa | 1.7 km | |
| Atlas Almohades Casablanca City Center | 0.5 km | |
| Best Western Hotel Toubkal | 0.5 km | |
| Boutique Hotel Gauthier | 1.6 km | |
| Casablanca Le Lido Thalasso & Spa | 4.7 km | |
| DoubleTree by Hilton Casablanca City Centre | 2025 | 1.9 km |
| Down Town Hotel by Business & Leisure Hôtels | 2.1 km | |
| Four Seasons Hotel Casablanca | 4.0 km | |
| Grand Mogador City Center Casablanca | 2.0 km | |
| Gray Boutique Hotel Casablanca | 2.0 km | |
| Hotel Al Mamoun | 0.6 km | |
| Hotel Al Walid | 2.7 km | |
| Hotel Amouday | 0.9 km | |
| Hotel Astrid | 1.0 km | |
| Hotel Campanile Casablanca Centre Ville | 2.0 km | |
| Hotel Casablanca | 1.8 km | |
| Hotel Central | 0.3 km | |
| Hôtel Central | 0.3 km | |
| Hôtel Club Val d'Anfa | 5.4 km | |
| Hotel de La Corniche | 5.4 km | |
| Hotel du Louvre | 0.7 km | |
| Hotel Exe Gauthier | 1.5 km | |
| Hôtel les Saisons | 0.5 km | |
| Hotel Majestic | 1.1 km | |
| Hotel Première Classe Casablanca Centre Ville | 2.0 km | |
| Hotel Prince de Paris | 0.8 km | |
| Hotel Suisse | 5.4 km | |
| Hotel Transatlantique | 1.0 km | |
| Ibis Casa Voyageurs | 2.8 km | |
| Ibis Casablanca Abdelmoumen | 2.2 km | |
| Ibis Casablanca City Center | 0.6 km | |
| Idou Anfa Hotel | 1.4 km | |
| Kenzi Basma | 0.5 km | |
| Kenzi Basma Hotel | 0.6 km |
All 66 hotels in Casablanca, with their history and operators
When to go
The best time to visit Casablanca
The most comfortable months for a city stay in Casablanca are February to December. August is the warmest month, with average highs of 28 °C; December is the wettest, with about 67 mm of rain.
Comfortable means average daytime high between 18 °C and 29 °C and under 80 mm of rain in the month. Averages for 1991–2020 over the surrounding area, a grid square about 50 km across, so a coast or a nearby mountain can make the town itself warmer or cooler. Data: CRU TS v4.10, Climatic Research Unit, University of East Anglia (Open Database License).
Getting there
Getting to Casablanca: airports and arrival
The nearest airport with scheduled flights is Mohammed V International Airport (CMN), about 26 km from the city centre in a straight line; Rabat-Salé Airport (RBA, 95 km) is also within reach.
Getting in
Casablanca's airport is the busiest gateway to the country. Royal Air Maroc flies to New York JFK, Washington Dulles, Montreal, many cities in Europe, and has connecting flights to African countries such as Nigeria, Central African Republic, Senegal and others. WizzAir flies from Rome.
Getting around
A government department puts out an exhaustive map of Casablanca in book form called Carte Guide de Casablanca that you can find in bookstores or online; in all likelihood, though, it isn't necessary. Other than that, Casablanca is like any European city: the streets (mostly) have signs, and passersby are extremely helpful in French or Arabic and, more rarely, Spanish or English. The Medina can be hard to navigate, but it's so small that no matter how blindly you wander into it, you're never more than ten minutes from an exit. Casablanca is one of the two Moroccan cities with a tram.
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CMN · Mohammed V International Airport
RBA · Rabat-Salé Airport
Local knowledge
Eating, drinking and staying safe in Casablanca
Eat
Restaurants in Morocco are like restaurants in Spain - they don't open until around 19:00 at the earliest, and most people don't eat until much later. Be sure to call first and make sure your restaurant of choice is actually open.
Drink
Nightlife in Casablanca has mixed reviews. Women may feel uncomfortable with the mostly male crowds in many bars and nightclubs, though if you look around you'll find some excellent spots to drink, dance and people watch. The quality of venues varies considerably, so it's worth asking locals or your hotel for recommendations. If you want a drink in your hotel room, supermarkets like Acima and Marjane carry a wide variety of liquor and wine, though the beer selection is fairly stunted. The best places to drink are either European-style restaurants, which usually have a decent selection, or hotel bars, which are inevitably safer and more relaxed.
Stay safe
Common sense will alleviate 99% of problems; try to look as little like a tourist as possible, do not flash large quantities of cash, and so on. Faux guides are much less of a problem here than in the rest of Morocco and are limited mainly to the area around the Old Medina. It is inadvisable to walk alone in Casablanca at night. Women, as in all Moroccan cities, should dress modestly to avoid harassment (which almost always consists of lewd comments, but nothing physical.) Pickpocketing and moto-drive-by theft seem more to be a problem here—hide your valuables!
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Questions
Casablanca: questions travellers ask
When is the best time to visit Casablanca?
The most comfortable months for a city stay in Casablanca are February to December. August is the warmest month, with average highs of 28 °C; December is the wettest, with about 67 mm of rain.
Which airport is closest to Casablanca?
The nearest airport with scheduled flights is Mohammed V International Airport (CMN), about 26 km from the city centre in a straight line; Rabat-Salé Airport (RBA, 95 km) is also within reach.
What currency is used in Casablanca?
Moroccan dirham (MAD).
Nearby
Destinations near Casablanca
Sources: city facts from Wikidata and Wikipedia; airports from OurAirports; climate from CRU TS v4.10 (University of East Anglia Climatic Research Unit), 1991–2020 monthly means, 0.5° grid; places to stay, guest scores and amenities from each operator's own public pages. How this guide is made.