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The beach below the Kasbah hill and its inscription, Agadir
AgadirThe beach below the Kasbah hill and its inscription
The skyline and the Rocky Mountains over City Park and Ferril Lake, Denver
DenverThe skyline and the Rocky Mountains over City Park and Ferril Lake

Photos: Agadir by michiel1972, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Denver by Zenhaus, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Agadir or Denver?

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 Denver for

  • live music and the arts
  • culture and sights
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Denver’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, Denver 5: Agadir leads by 67 points.
Food & drink. Agadir 50, Denver 54: Denver leads by 4 points.
Culture & sights. Agadir 22, Denver 44: Denver leads by 22 points.
Nightlife. Agadir 33, Denver 47: Denver leads by 14 points.
Nature & outdoors. Agadir 65, Denver 84: Denver leads by 19 points.
Day trips. Agadir 38, Denver 57: Denver leads by 19 points.
Good for families. Agadir 58, Denver 67: Denver leads by 9 points.
Getting around. Agadir 45, Denver 40: Agadir leads by 5 points.
Shopping & style. Agadir 38, Denver 44: Denver leads by 6 points.
Affordability. Agadir 70, Denver 36: Agadir leads by 34 points.
Live music & performing arts. Agadir 18, Denver 66: Denver leads by 48 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Agadir 60, Denver 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 Denver.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Agadir
47match

Wins on beaches and prices with your weighting.

Denver
49match

Wins on live music and the arts and culture and sights 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

Denver in July

32 °Cdaytime high
15 °Cnight-time low
55 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.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Agadir: 1945-2025 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Agadir (4.5 km from centre). Denver: 1991-2020 normals, Denver / Stapleton International, Co. (11.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAgadirDenver
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 m1,609 m
Main airportAl Massira Airport (AGA)20 km from centre75 non-stop destinationsDenver International Airport (DEN)30 km from centre231 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureAgadirDenver
City population538,000715,522
People per km²-1,783
Museums within 10 km126
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. 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.