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The beach below the Kasbah hill and its inscription, Agadir
AgadirThe beach below the Kasbah hill and its inscription
The Thiou canal with the castle behind, Annecy
AnnecyThe Thiou canal with the castle behind

Photos: Agadir by michiel1972, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Annecy by Dmitry A. Mottl, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Agadir or Annecy?

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

  • prices
  • beaches
  • wellness

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

Choose Annecy for

  • day trips
  • nature and the outdoors
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Annecy’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, Annecy 55: Agadir leads by 17 points.
Food & drink. Agadir and Annecy are level on 50.
Culture & sights. Agadir 22, Annecy 38: Annecy leads by 16 points.
Nightlife. Agadir 33, Annecy 25: Agadir leads by 8 points.
Nature & outdoors. Agadir 65, Annecy 92: Annecy leads by 27 points.
Day trips. Agadir 38, Annecy 70: Annecy leads by 32 points.
Good for families. Agadir 58, Annecy 60: Annecy leads by 2 points.
Getting around. Agadir 45, Annecy 62: Annecy leads by 17 points.
Shopping & style. Agadir 38, Annecy 35: Agadir leads by 3 points.
Affordability. Agadir 70, Annecy 35: Agadir leads by 35 points.
Live music & performing arts. Agadir 18, Annecy 33: Annecy leads by 15 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Agadir 60, Annecy 48: Agadir leads by 12 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Agadir and Annecy.

Your match

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

Agadir
47match

Wins on prices and beaches with your weighting.

Annecy
Best match
50match

Wins on day trips and nature and the outdoors 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

Annecy in July

27 °Cdaytime high
15 °Cnight-time low
73 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
No seasea
15 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.

Annecy 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.

Annecy's sunshine is measured 39 km from the centre, at Geneve-Cointrin.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Agadir: 1945-2025 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Agadir (4.5 km from centre). Annecy: 2007-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Annecy / Metz-Tessy (4.4 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAgadirAnnecy
Official languageArabic, Standard Moroccan TamazightFrench
CurrencyMoroccan Dirham (MAD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15112
Elevation74 m418 m
Main airportAl Massira Airport (AGA)20 km from centre75 non-stop destinationsGeneva International Airport (GVA)38 km from centre150 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureAgadirAnnecy
City population538,000132,117
People per km²-1,975
Museums within 10 km11
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.