The short answer
It might, especially in a medina riad. The first of the five daily calls to prayer, fajr, sounds before sunrise and rolls across the rooftops from dozens of minarets, slightly out of step with each other. Many visitors sleep through it after the first night; light sleepers should pack earplugs. In Gueliz or Hivernage hotels it is fainter.
In more detail
Muslims pray five times a day, and each prayer is announced by the call, the adhan, from the mosques. The times shift daily with the sun: dawn, midday, afternoon, sunset and night. In the medina, with a mosque in almost every quarter, you will hear all five.
The sunset call is the one to seek out. Heard from a rooftop over Jemaa el-Fnaa, with smoke rising off the grills and the Koutoubia floodlit, it is the sound of Marrakech at its best.
If you are a light sleeper, ask the riad for a room away from the nearest minaret, and remember that dawn also brings the first scooters and donkey carts into the lanes.
Good to know
- Pack earplugs if you sleep lightly.
- Ask for a room on the far side from the mosque.
- Go up to a roof terrace for the sunset call.
- Prayer times change daily; any prayer app will show them.