Do I need to declare anything at Moroccan customs?

For the typical holidaymaker the honest answer is: nothing. You walk through the green "nothing to declare" channel with your clothes, phone, laptop, camera and within-allowance duty-free, and that is the end of it. Moroccan customs is looking for commercial smuggling and contraband, not your suitcase. In years of meeting arriving guests, the green channel has been the norm by an overwhelming margin.

There is one hard legal trigger: cash. If you are entering or leaving with the equivalent of about 100,000 dirhams or more — roughly 10,000 US dollars or euros across all the currency you carry — you are required to declare it. This is free and quick to do; the offence is failing to declare a large sum, not carrying it. If you are travelling with that kind of money, find the red channel and declare proactively.

Beyond cash, declaring is mostly about protecting yourself. If you arrive with very high-value professional equipment — a cinema camera rig, multiple new laptops, expensive jewellery you are travelling with — it can be worth declaring or having it logged so that on departure no one suspects you bought and sold it in Morocco. Likewise, large quantities of anything that looks commercial (many identical items) are better declared than discovered. Genuine antiquities you somehow acquired need their export paperwork.

What you should not be doing is trying to "declare" your way past prohibited items. A drone is not something you declare and bring in — it is confiscated. The same goes for anything illegal. So the simple framework is: declare large cash, consider declaring high-value kit, leave prohibited items at home entirely, and otherwise enjoy the green channel. Confirm the current cash threshold before you travel, as it can be revised.