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The beach below the Kasbah hill and its inscription, Agadir
AgadirThe beach below the Kasbah hill and its inscription
The Umayyad Palace on the Amman Citadel, Amman
AmmanThe Umayyad Palace on the Amman Citadel

Photos: Agadir by michiel1972, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Amman by AXP Photography, Pexels License.

Agadir or Amman?

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 Agadir for

  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors
  • families

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

Choose Amman for

  • day trips
  • culture and sights
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on Amman’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. Agadir 72, Amman 22: Agadir leads by 50 points.
Food & drink. Agadir 50, Amman 62: Amman leads by 12 points.
Culture & sights. Agadir 22, Amman 54: Amman leads by 32 points.
Nightlife. Agadir 33, Amman 32: Agadir leads by 1 points.
Nature & outdoors. Agadir 65, Amman 45: Agadir leads by 20 points.
Day trips. Agadir 38, Amman 80: Amman leads by 42 points.
Good for families. Agadir 58, Amman 38: Agadir leads by 20 points.
Getting around. Agadir 45, Amman 30: Agadir leads by 15 points.
Shopping & style. Agadir 38, Amman 42: Amman leads by 4 points.
Affordability. Agadir 70, Amman 58: Agadir leads by 12 points.
Live music & performing arts. Agadir 18, Amman 27: Amman leads by 9 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Agadir 60, Amman 55: Agadir leads by 5 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Agadir and Amman.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Agadir
47match

Wins on beaches and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Amman
45match

Wins on day trips and culture and sights with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

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

Amman in July

33 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
No seasea
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.

Amman 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.

Amman's sunshine is measured 55 km from the centre, at Mafraq.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Agadir: 1945-2025 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Agadir (4.5 km from centre). Amman: 1994-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Amman Airport (6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAgadirAmman
Official languageArabic, Standard Moroccan TamazightArabic
CurrencyMoroccan Dirham (MAD)Jordanian Dinar (JOD)
SocketsCE50 HzBCFGJ230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1UTC+3
Emergency numberPolice 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15911
Elevation74 m776 m
Main airportAl Massira Airport (AGA)20 km from centre75 non-stop destinationsQueen Alia International Airport (AMM)26 km from centre98 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days-

By the numbers

MeasureAgadirAmman
City population538,0004,007,526
People per km²-2,385
Museums within 10 km18
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone-

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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). 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.