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The beach below the Kasbah hill and its inscription, Agadir
AgadirThe beach below the Kasbah hill and its inscription
Yellow colonial houses in the walled city, Cartagena
CartagenaYellow colonial houses in the walled city

Photos: Agadir by michiel1972, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Cartagena by Dr. Thomas Liptak, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Agadir or Cartagena?

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

  • wellness
  • nature and the outdoors
  • families

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

Choose Cartagena for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Cartagena’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, Cartagena 70: Agadir leads by 2 points.
Food & drink. Agadir 50, Cartagena 62: Cartagena leads by 12 points.
Culture & sights. Agadir 22, Cartagena 68: Cartagena leads by 46 points.
Nightlife. Agadir 33, Cartagena 70: Cartagena leads by 37 points.
Nature & outdoors. Agadir 65, Cartagena 46: Agadir leads by 19 points.
Day trips. Agadir 38, Cartagena 33: Agadir leads by 5 points.
Good for families. Agadir 58, Cartagena 40: Agadir leads by 18 points.
Getting around. Agadir 45, Cartagena 54: Cartagena leads by 9 points.
Shopping & style. Agadir 38, Cartagena 48: Cartagena leads by 10 points.
Affordability. Agadir 70, Cartagena 60: Agadir leads by 10 points.
Live music & performing arts. Agadir 18, Cartagena 40: Cartagena leads by 22 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Agadir 60, Cartagena 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 Cartagena.

Your match

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

Agadir
47match

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

Cartagena
Best match
53match

Wins on culture and sights and nightlife 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

Cartagena in July

31 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
124 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
30 °Csea
13 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). Cartagena: 1991-2020 normals, Cartagena / Rafael Nunez (3.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAgadirCartagena
Official languageArabic, Standard Moroccan TamazightSpanish
CurrencyMoroccan Dirham (MAD)Colombian Peso (COP)
SocketsCE50 HzAB110 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1UTC-5
Emergency numberPolice 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15123
Elevation74 m2 m
Main airportAl Massira Airport (AGA)20 km from centre75 non-stop destinationsRafael Nuñez International Airport (CTG)2 km from centre26 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days19 days

By the numbers

MeasureAgadirCartagena
City population538,000914,552
People per km²-1,599
Museums within 10 km12
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone12 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.