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The beach below the Kasbah hill and its inscription, Agadir
AgadirThe beach below the Kasbah hill and its inscription
The Flame Towers from the seafront, Baku
BakuThe Flame Towers from the seafront

Photos: Agadir by michiel1972, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Baku by Zulfugar Karimov, Pexels License.

Agadir or Baku?

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

  • nature and the outdoors
  • beaches
  • wellness

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

Choose Baku for

  • culture and sights
  • live music and the arts
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Baku’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, Baku 40: Agadir leads by 32 points.
Food & drink. Agadir 50, Baku 60: Baku leads by 10 points.
Culture & sights. Agadir 22, Baku 62: Baku leads by 40 points.
Nightlife. Agadir 33, Baku 42: Baku leads by 9 points.
Nature & outdoors. Agadir 65, Baku 30: Agadir leads by 35 points.
Day trips. Agadir 38, Baku 45: Baku leads by 7 points.
Good for families. Agadir 58, Baku 45: Agadir leads by 13 points.
Getting around. Agadir 45, Baku 58: Baku leads by 13 points.
Shopping & style. Agadir 38, Baku 48: Baku leads by 10 points.
Affordability. Agadir 70, Baku 64: Agadir leads by 6 points.
Live music & performing arts. Agadir 18, Baku 52: Baku leads by 34 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Agadir 60, Baku 30: Agadir leads by 30 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Agadir and Baku.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Agadir
47match

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

Baku
48match

Wins on culture and sights and live music and the arts 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
19 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Baku in July

30 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
5 mmrain in the month
25 °Csea
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.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Agadir: 1945-2025 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Agadir (4.5 km from centre). Baku: 1991-2020 normals, Mashtaga (23.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAgadirBaku
Official languageArabic, Standard Moroccan TamazightAzerbaijani, Azerbaijani Sign Language
CurrencyMoroccan Dirham (MAD)Azerbaijan Manat (AZN)
SocketsCE50 HzCF220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1UTC+4
Emergency numberPolice 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15102 or 112
Elevation74 m-28 m
Main airportAl Massira Airport (AGA)20 km from centre75 non-stop destinationsHeydar Aliyev International Airport (GYD)22 km from centre79 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days-

By the numbers

MeasureAgadirBaku
City population538,0002,300,500
People per km²-1,075
Museums within 10 km150
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone4 months

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). 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.