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The beach below the Kasbah hill and its inscription, Agadir
AgadirThe beach below the Kasbah hill and its inscription
The pyramids of Giza, Cairo
CairoThe pyramids of Giza

Photos: Agadir by michiel1972, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Cairo by Ricardo Liberato, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Agadir or Cairo?

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 Cairo for

  • culture and sights
  • live music and the arts
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Cairo’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, Cairo 10: Agadir leads by 62 points.
Food & drink. Agadir 50, Cairo 60: Cairo leads by 10 points.
Culture & sights. Agadir 22, Cairo 96: Cairo leads by 74 points.
Nightlife. Agadir 33, Cairo 48: Cairo leads by 15 points.
Nature & outdoors. Agadir 65, Cairo 30: Agadir leads by 35 points.
Day trips. Agadir 38, Cairo 66: Cairo leads by 28 points.
Good for families. Agadir 58, Cairo 32: Agadir leads by 26 points.
Getting around. Agadir 45, Cairo 35: Agadir leads by 10 points.
Shopping & style. Agadir 38, Cairo 58: Cairo leads by 20 points.
Affordability. Agadir 70, Cairo 95: Cairo leads by 25 points.
Live music & performing arts. Agadir 18, Cairo 50: Cairo leads by 32 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Agadir 60, Cairo 15: Agadir leads by 45 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Agadir and Cairo.

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.

Cairo
Best match
50match

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
No recordsunshine a day
19 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Cairo in July

36 °Cdaytime high
23 °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.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Agadir: 1945-2025 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Agadir (4.5 km from centre). Cairo: 1991-2020 normals, Helwan (21.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAgadirCairo
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 m23 m
Main airportAl Massira Airport (AGA)20 km from centre75 non-stop destinationsCairo International Airport (CAI)17 km from centre127 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureAgadirCairo
City population538,0009,801,536
People per km²-18,564
Museums within 10 km148
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. 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.