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The beach below the Kasbah hill and its inscription, Agadir
AgadirThe beach below the Kasbah hill and its inscription
The Mezquita and the Roman bridge, Cordoba
CordobaThe Mezquita and the Roman bridge

Photos: Agadir by michiel1972, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Cordoba by Jose María Ligero Loarte, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Agadir or Cordoba?

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
  • nature and the outdoors
  • wellness

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

Choose Cordoba for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Cordoba’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, Cordoba 14: Agadir leads by 58 points.
Food & drink. Agadir 50, Cordoba 62: Cordoba leads by 12 points.
Culture & sights. Agadir 22, Cordoba 81: Cordoba leads by 59 points.
Nightlife. Agadir 33, Cordoba 40: Cordoba leads by 7 points.
Nature & outdoors. Agadir 65, Cordoba 45: Agadir leads by 20 points.
Day trips. Agadir 38, Cordoba 86: Cordoba leads by 48 points.
Good for families. Agadir 58, Cordoba 40: Agadir leads by 18 points.
Getting around. Agadir 45, Cordoba 68: Cordoba leads by 23 points.
Shopping & style. Agadir and Cordoba are level on 38.
Affordability. Agadir 70, Cordoba 63: Agadir leads by 7 points.
Live music & performing arts. Agadir 18, Cordoba 47: Cordoba leads by 29 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Agadir 60, Cordoba 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 Cordoba.

Your match

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

Agadir
47match

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

Cordoba
Best match
52match

Wins on culture and sights 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
No recordsunshine a day
19 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Cordoba in July

37 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
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.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Agadir: 1945-2025 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Agadir (4.5 km from centre). Cordoba: 1991-2020 normals, Cordoba / Aeropuerto (7.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAgadirCordoba
Official languageArabic, Standard Moroccan TamazightSpanish
CurrencyMoroccan Dirham (MAD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15112
Elevation74 m120 m
Main airportAl Massira Airport (AGA)20 km from centre75 non-stop destinationsCórdoba Airport (ODB)8 km from centre3 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureAgadirCordoba
City population538,000323,262
People per km²-258
Museums within 10 km116
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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.