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The beach below the Kasbah hill and its inscription, Agadir
AgadirThe beach below the Kasbah hill and its inscription
Wat Chiang Man in the old city, Chiang Mai
Chiang MaiWat Chiang Man in the old city

Photos: Agadir by michiel1972, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Chiang Mai by Gije Cho, Pexels License.

Agadir or Chiang Mai?

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
  • getting around
  • families

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

Choose Chiang Mai for

  • culture and sights
  • food and drink
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Chiang Mai’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, Chiang Mai 6: Agadir leads by 66 points.
Food & drink. Agadir 50, Chiang Mai 78: Chiang Mai leads by 28 points.
Culture & sights. Agadir 22, Chiang Mai 65: Chiang Mai leads by 43 points.
Nightlife. Agadir 33, Chiang Mai 45: Chiang Mai leads by 12 points.
Nature & outdoors. Agadir 65, Chiang Mai 73: Chiang Mai leads by 8 points.
Day trips. Agadir 38, Chiang Mai 48: Chiang Mai leads by 10 points.
Good for families. Agadir 58, Chiang Mai 55: Agadir leads by 3 points.
Getting around. Agadir 45, Chiang Mai 38: Agadir leads by 7 points.
Shopping & style. Agadir 38, Chiang Mai 62: Chiang Mai leads by 24 points.
Affordability. Agadir 70, Chiang Mai 90: Chiang Mai leads by 20 points.
Live music & performing arts. Agadir 18, Chiang Mai 30: Chiang Mai leads by 12 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Agadir 60, Chiang Mai 82: Chiang Mai leads by 22 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Agadir and Chiang Mai.

Your match

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

Agadir
47match

Wins on beaches and getting around with your weighting.

Chiang Mai
Best match
56match

Wins on culture and sights and food and drink 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

Chiang Mai in July

32 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
153 mmrain in the month
4 hsunshine a day
No seasea
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). Chiang Mai: 1991-2020 normals, Chiang Mai (0.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAgadirChiang Mai
Official languageArabic, Standard Moroccan TamazightThai
CurrencyMoroccan Dirham (MAD)Baht (THB)
SocketsCE50 HzABCF220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1UTC+7
Emergency numberPolice 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15Police 191, ambulance 1669, fire 199
Elevation74 m310 m
Main airportAl Massira Airport (AGA)20 km from centre75 non-stop destinationsChiang Mai International Airport (CNX)3 km from centre28 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days-

By the numbers

MeasureAgadirChiang Mai
City population538,0001,198,000
People per km²-2,958
Museums within 10 km16
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone-

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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm.

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.