Are there women-only tours or spaces in Morocco?

Yes — and they're more available than most visitors expect. There's a healthy ecosystem of women-only and female-led tours in Morocco, ranging from small-group itineraries marketed specifically to women, to private trips with a female guide and female driver. Many solo women love these: the dynamic is relaxed, the conversation is open, and a female guide can take you into spaces and conversations — kitchens, hammams, women's cooperatives, family homes — that a male guide simply can't access in the same way. We arrange female guides and women-centred itineraries regularly, so it's an easy ask.

Beyond organised tours, women-only spaces are genuinely woven into Moroccan daily life, which surprises people. The clearest example is the traditional neighbourhood hammam, which runs separate women-only and men-only hours (or has entirely separate entrances) — a warm, social, female world where local women bathe, scrub, chat and look after each other, and where solo female travellers are usually welcomed with great kindness. There are also women-run argan-oil and weaving cooperatives across the south and the Atlas, which are wonderful, supportive places to visit and shop directly from the women who made the goods.

You'll notice subtler gendered spaces too. Some traditional cafés are still effectively male preserves where you'll see few or no local women — not off-limits to a tourist, but you may feel conspicuous, and there are plenty of modern, mixed cafés where you'll be entirely comfortable instead. On some buses and in waiting areas you'll see informal clustering by gender. None of this is a rule you must obey as a visitor; it's simply useful to read the room, and to know that female-friendly, women-centred options are always there if you want a softer landing.

My practical steer: if you'd feel more comfortable, ask us to build a women-focused trip — a female guide, women's cooperatives, a guided women's hammam experience, cooking with local women, perhaps a small all-female group. It tends to be both more relaxed for solo travellers and more culturally intimate, opening doors into the female side of Moroccan life that's otherwise hard to reach. And even on a standard trip, seeking out the women-only hammam hours and the women's cooperatives gives you some of the warmest, most memorable encounters of the whole journey.