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The Adelaide skyline and the footbridge over the River Torrens, Adelaide
AdelaideThe Adelaide skyline and the footbridge over the River Torrens
The beach below the Kasbah hill and its inscription, Agadir
AgadirThe beach below the Kasbah hill and its inscription

Photos: Adelaide by Ardash Muradian, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Agadir by michiel1972, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Adelaide or Agadir?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Adelaide for

  • live music and the arts
  • culture and sights
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on Adelaide’s own page.

Choose Agadir for

  • prices
  • wellness
  • beaches

What lies behind each score is written up on Agadir’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Adelaide 68, Agadir 72: Agadir leads by 4 points.
Food & drink. Adelaide 72, Agadir 50: Adelaide leads by 22 points.
Culture & sights. Adelaide 48, Agadir 22: Adelaide leads by 26 points.
Nightlife. Adelaide 42, Agadir 33: Adelaide leads by 9 points.
Nature & outdoors. Adelaide 66, Agadir 65: Adelaide leads by 1 points.
Day trips. Adelaide 60, Agadir 38: Adelaide leads by 22 points.
Good for families. Adelaide 70, Agadir 58: Adelaide leads by 12 points.
Getting around. Adelaide 57, Agadir 45: Adelaide leads by 12 points.
Shopping & style. Adelaide 44, Agadir 38: Adelaide leads by 6 points.
Affordability. Adelaide 40, Agadir 70: Agadir leads by 30 points.
Live music & performing arts. Adelaide 63, Agadir 18: Adelaide leads by 45 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Adelaide 42, Agadir 60: Agadir leads by 18 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Adelaide and Agadir.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Adelaide
Best match
56match

Wins on live music and the arts and culture and sights with your weighting.

Agadir
47match

Wins on prices and wellness with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Adelaide in July

16 °Cdaytime high
8 °Cnight-time low
72 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
14 °Csea
10 hdaylight a day

Agadir in July

28 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
19 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Agadir has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Adelaide: 1991-2020 normals, Adelaide (West Terrace / ngayirdapira) (3.1 km from centre). Agadir: 1945-2025 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Agadir (4.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAdelaideAgadir
Official languageEnglishArabic, Standard Moroccan Tamazight
CurrencyAustralian Dollar (AUD)Moroccan Dirham (MAD)
SocketsI230 V, 50 HzCE50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+9:30, UTC+10:30 in summerUTC+1
Emergency number000Police 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15
Elevation1 m74 m
Main airportAdelaide International Airport (ADL)6 km from centre35 non-stop destinationsAl Massira Airport (AGA)20 km from centre75 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureAdelaideAgadir
City population1,387,290538,000
People per km²1,071-
Museums within 10 km131
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 monthsNone

Where else could you go?

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. Non-stop route lists from the "Airlines and destinations" tables on English Wikipedia airport articles, by Wikipedia contributors, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0. Currency from the ISO 4217 register maintained by SIX, cross-checked against country data from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Price level from World Bank open data (PPP conversion factor for private consumption and official exchange rate), CC BY 4.0. Time zones from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0); clock offsets computed from the IANA time zone database. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.