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The beach below the Kasbah hill and its inscription, Agadir
AgadirThe beach below the Kasbah hill and its inscription
Durban

Photos: Agadir by michiel1972, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Agadir or Durban?

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
  • getting around

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

Choose Durban for

  • live music and the arts
  • culture and sights
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on Durban’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, Durban 80: Durban leads by 8 points.
Food & drink. Agadir 50, Durban 60: Durban leads by 10 points.
Culture & sights. Agadir 22, Durban 38: Durban leads by 16 points.
Nightlife. Agadir 33, Durban 40: Durban leads by 7 points.
Nature & outdoors. Agadir 65, Durban 68: Durban leads by 3 points.
Day trips. Agadir and Durban are level on 38.
Good for families. Agadir 58, Durban 60: Durban leads by 2 points.
Getting around. Agadir 45, Durban 20: Agadir leads by 25 points.
Shopping & style. Agadir 38, Durban 42: Durban leads by 4 points.
Affordability. Agadir 70, Durban 72: Durban leads by 2 points.
Live music & performing arts. Agadir 18, Durban 40: Durban leads by 22 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Agadir 60, Durban 30: Agadir leads by 30 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Agadir and Durban.

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 wellness and getting around with your weighting.

Durban
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
No recordsunshine a day
19 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Durban in July

23 °Cdaytime high
11 °Cnight-time low
44 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
22 °Csea
10 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). Durban: 1991-2020 normals, Durban, Durban International Airport (14.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAgadirDurban
Official languageArabic, Standard Moroccan TamazightEnglish, Zulu, Xhosa, Afrikaans, Venda, Northern Sotho, Swazi, Tswana, Tsonga, Sesotho, Southern Ndebele, South African Sign Language
CurrencyMoroccan Dirham (MAD)Rand (ZAR)
SocketsCE50 HzCMN230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1UTC+2
Emergency numberPolice 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15112
Elevation74 m22 m
Main airportAl Massira Airport (AGA)20 km from centre75 non-stop destinationsKing Shaka International Airport (DUR)29 km from centre13 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureAgadirDurban
City population538,000595,061
People per km²-2,634
Museums within 10 km11
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone12 months

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.