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The beach below the Kasbah hill and its inscription, Agadir
AgadirThe beach below the Kasbah hill and its inscription
Skiers at the foot of the slopes in the village, Copper Mountain
Copper MountainSkiers at the foot of the slopes in the village

Photos: Agadir by michiel1972, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Copper Mountain by SparkFunElectronics, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Agadir or Copper Mountain?

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
  • prices
  • wellness

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

Choose Copper Mountain for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • day trips
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Copper Mountain’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, Copper Mountain 3: Agadir leads by 69 points.
Food & drink. Agadir 50, Copper Mountain 20: Agadir leads by 30 points.
Culture & sights. Agadir 22, Copper Mountain 4: Agadir leads by 18 points.
Nightlife. Agadir 33, Copper Mountain 12: Agadir leads by 21 points.
Nature & outdoors. Agadir 65, Copper Mountain 90: Copper Mountain leads by 25 points.
Day trips. Agadir 38, Copper Mountain 55: Copper Mountain leads by 17 points.
Good for families. Agadir 58, Copper Mountain 62: Copper Mountain leads by 4 points.
Getting around. Agadir 45, Copper Mountain 48: Copper Mountain leads by 3 points.
Shopping & style. Agadir 38, Copper Mountain 8: Agadir leads by 30 points.
Affordability. Agadir 70, Copper Mountain 18: Agadir leads by 52 points.
Live music & performing arts. Agadir 18, Copper Mountain 8: Agadir leads by 10 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Agadir 60, Copper Mountain 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 Copper Mountain.

Your match

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

Agadir
Best match
47match

Wins on beaches and prices with your weighting.

Copper Mountain
30match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and day trips 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

Copper Mountain in July

21 °Cdaytime high
5 °Cnight-time low
41 mmrain in the month
No seasea
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.

Copper Mountain's temperatures are measured 35 km from the centre, at Leadville / Stringtown.

Copper Mountain 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). Copper Mountain: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Leadville / Stringtown (35.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAgadirCopper Mountain
Official languageArabic, Standard Moroccan Tamazight-
CurrencyMoroccan Dirham (MAD)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCE50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1UTC-7, UTC-6 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15911
Elevation74 m2,955 m
Main airportAl Massira Airport (AGA)20 km from centre75 non-stop destinationsDenver International Airport (DEN)132 km from centre231 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureAgadirCopper Mountain
City population538,000650
People per km²-8
Museums within 10 km10
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.