Where can I see the best sunset in Morocco?

My honest favourite is the Sahara at Erg Chebbi, near Merzouga. I climb the spine of a high dune about forty minutes before sundown, the sand still warm under bare feet, and watch the orange light slide off the crests while the troughs fill with violet shadow. It is silent except for the wind, and on a camel trek the dunes go from gold to rose to deep blue in fifteen minutes. Erg Chigaga past M’Hamid is even emptier if you want zero crowds.

In the north, the Spanish Mosque on the hill east of Chefchaouen is the spot. It is a fifteen-minute uphill walk from the medina, and you sit on the grass with the whole blue city glowing below as the sun drops behind the Rif. In Marrakech I send people to a rooftop terrace overlooking the Koutoubia minaret — the call to prayer rises right as the sky turns coral, and on clear winter evenings the snow-capped Atlas glows pink behind the city. Kasbah Cafe and Le Salama have reliable terraces.

On the coast, Essaouira’s sea ramparts (the Skala de la Ville, where Orson Welles filmed Othello) catch the Atlantic sunset with gulls wheeling over the bastion cannons. It is windy and raw and unforgettable. For something surreal, the Agafay “desert” forty-five minutes from Marrakech is a lunar landscape of grey stone hills — luxury camps there serve mint tea on the ridge as the sun sets over the Atlas foothills, no long Sahara drive required.

A practical tip: sunset times swing a lot. In June the sun sets close to 8:30pm, in December nearer 6pm, so plan dinner around it. I always tell clients to arrive at any viewpoint thirty minutes early — the ten minutes after the sun dips below the horizon, when the sky burns and the dunes or whitewashed walls hold the colour, are often more beautiful than the sunset itself.