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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 white medina above the harbour walls, Essaouira
EssaouiraThe white medina above the harbour walls

Photos: Adelaide by Ardash Muradian, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Essaouira by Manel Cusido, Pexels License.

Adelaide or Essaouira?

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

  • day trips
  • live music and the arts
  • food and drink

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

Choose Essaouira for

  • prices
  • wellness
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Essaouira’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, Essaouira 47: Adelaide leads by 21 points.
Food & drink. Adelaide 72, Essaouira 44: Adelaide leads by 28 points.
Culture & sights. Adelaide and Essaouira are level on 48.
Nightlife. Adelaide 42, Essaouira 14: Adelaide leads by 28 points.
Nature & outdoors. Adelaide 66, Essaouira 57: Adelaide leads by 9 points.
Day trips. Adelaide 60, Essaouira 17: Adelaide leads by 43 points.
Good for families. Adelaide 70, Essaouira 42: Adelaide leads by 28 points.
Getting around. Adelaide 57, Essaouira 58: Essaouira leads by 1 points.
Shopping & style. Adelaide and Essaouira are level on 44.
Affordability. Adelaide 40, Essaouira 74: Essaouira leads by 34 points.
Live music & performing arts. Adelaide 63, Essaouira 28: Adelaide leads by 35 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Adelaide 42, Essaouira 66: Essaouira leads by 24 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Adelaide and Essaouira.

Your match

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

Adelaide
Best match
56match

Wins on day trips and live music and the arts with your weighting.

Essaouira
45match

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

Essaouira in July

22 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
20 °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

Essaouira 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). Essaouira: 1991-2020 normals, Essaouira (1.4 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAdelaideEssaouira
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 m11 m
Main airportAdelaide International Airport (ADL)6 km from centre35 non-stop destinationsEssaouira-Mogador Airport (ESU)15 km from centre13 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureAdelaideEssaouira
City population1,387,29082,962
People per km²1,07116,592
Museums within 10 km132
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
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.