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The beach below the Kasbah hill and its inscription, Agadir
AgadirThe beach below the Kasbah hill and its inscription
Philae temple on the Nile, Aswan
AswanPhilae temple on the Nile

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

Agadir or Aswan?

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
  • families
  • nightlife

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

Choose Aswan for

  • culture and sights
  • prices
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Aswan’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, Aswan 10: Agadir leads by 62 points.
Food & drink. Agadir 50, Aswan 30: Agadir leads by 20 points.
Culture & sights. Agadir 22, Aswan 64: Aswan leads by 42 points.
Nightlife. Agadir 33, Aswan 8: Agadir leads by 25 points.
Nature & outdoors. Agadir 65, Aswan 45: Agadir leads by 20 points.
Day trips. Agadir 38, Aswan 52: Aswan leads by 14 points.
Good for families. Agadir 58, Aswan 32: Agadir leads by 26 points.
Getting around. Agadir 45, Aswan 40: Agadir leads by 5 points.
Shopping & style. Agadir 38, Aswan 30: Agadir leads by 8 points.
Affordability. Agadir 70, Aswan 92: Aswan leads by 22 points.
Live music & performing arts. Agadir 18, Aswan 14: Agadir leads by 4 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Agadir 60, Aswan 40: Agadir leads by 20 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Agadir and Aswan.

Your match

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

Agadir
Best match
47match

Wins on beaches and families with your weighting.

Aswan
38match

Wins on culture and sights and prices 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

Aswan in July

42 °Cdaytime high
28 °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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AgadirAswan

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. Agadir: 1945-2025 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Agadir (4.5 km from centre). Aswan: 1991-2020 normals, Asswan (18 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAgadirAswan
Official languageArabic, Standard Moroccan TamazightArabic
CurrencyMoroccan Dirham (MAD)Egyptian Pound (EGP)
SocketsCE50 HzCF220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1UTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15Police 122, ambulance 123, fire 180
Elevation74 m99 m
Main airportAl Massira Airport (AGA)20 km from centre75 non-stop destinationsAswan International Airport (ASW)16 km from centre2 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureAgadirAswan
City population538,000401,890
People per km²-1,072
Museums within 10 km13
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
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.