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The beach below the Kasbah hill and its inscription, Agadir
AgadirThe beach below the Kasbah hill and its inscription
The Teatro Colón, Buenos Aires
Buenos AiresThe Teatro Colón

Photos: Agadir by michiel1972, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Buenos Aires by Bernard Gagnon, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Agadir or Buenos Aires?

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
  • wellness
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Buenos Aires for

  • nightlife
  • live music and the arts
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on Buenos Aires’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, Buenos Aires 7: Agadir leads by 65 points.
Food & drink. Agadir 50, Buenos Aires 75: Buenos Aires leads by 25 points.
Culture & sights. Agadir 22, Buenos Aires 71: Buenos Aires leads by 49 points.
Nightlife. Agadir 33, Buenos Aires 95: Buenos Aires leads by 62 points.
Nature & outdoors. Agadir 65, Buenos Aires 38: Agadir leads by 27 points.
Day trips. Agadir 38, Buenos Aires 60: Buenos Aires leads by 22 points.
Good for families. Agadir 58, Buenos Aires 52: Agadir leads by 6 points.
Getting around. Agadir 45, Buenos Aires 62: Buenos Aires leads by 17 points.
Shopping & style. Agadir 38, Buenos Aires 60: Buenos Aires leads by 22 points.
Affordability. Agadir 70, Buenos Aires 55: Agadir leads by 15 points.
Live music & performing arts. Agadir 18, Buenos Aires 75: Buenos Aires leads by 57 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Agadir 60, Buenos Aires 28: Agadir leads by 32 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Agadir and Buenos Aires.

Your match

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

Agadir
47match

Wins on beaches and wellness with your weighting.

Buenos Aires
Best match
57match

Wins on nightlife 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
No recordsunshine a day
19 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Buenos Aires in July

15 °Cdaytime high
8 °Cnight-time low
50 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
13 °Csea
10 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). Buenos Aires: 1991-2020 normals, Aeroparque Bs. As. Aerodrome (4.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAgadirBuenos Aires
Official languageArabic, Standard Moroccan TamazightSpanish
CurrencyMoroccan Dirham (MAD)Argentine Peso (ARS)
SocketsCE50 HzCI220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1UTC-3
Emergency numberPolice 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15117 or 911
Elevation74 m25 m
Main airportAl Massira Airport (AGA)20 km from centre75 non-stop destinationsEzeiza International Airport - Ministro Pistarini (EZE)28 km from centre48 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureAgadirBuenos Aires
City population538,0003,121,707
People per km²-15,355
Museums within 10 km176
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone4 months

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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.