Is there good wifi in Morocco?

Wifi in Morocco is better than its reputation. Almost every riad, hotel, café and restaurant in the cities and larger towns offers free wifi, and for the everyday things travellers do — checking maps, messaging family, posting photos, booking the next thing — it's perfectly adequate. Marrakech, Casablanca, Fes, Rabat and the tourist towns are well covered, and you'll rarely sit in a café without a network to join.

That said, I'm honest with clients that 'available' and 'fast' aren't the same. Speeds swing a lot, especially in old medina buildings where thick walls and shared connections strangle the signal — your riad's wifi might be lovely in the courtyard and useless in your room. Video calls, large uploads and streaming can be frustrating. If your trip depends on reliable connectivity — you're working remotely, doing client calls, uploading big files — don't rely on café wifi; pair it with a local SIM or eSIM so you always have a 4G fallback in your pocket.

A small security habit I always pass on: public wifi in cafés and airports is open and unencrypted, so I avoid logging into banking or anything sensitive on it. If you'll be working, a simple VPN app is worth having, both for security and for the odd geo-blocked service back home. Your own mobile data is generally safer and, given how cheap Moroccan data is, often the easier choice for anything important.

Out in the wild it changes. High-end desert camps increasingly advertise wifi, but it's satellite-based, slow and often only in the main tent — treat it as a bonus, not a guarantee. Remote Atlas guesthouses and small mountain villages may have nothing. Honestly, that's part of the magic; some of my favourite traveller feedback is about the night in the dunes with no signal, just stars. Download your maps, playlists and tickets offline before you go remote, tell people you'll be quiet for a day, and enjoy it.