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The beach below the Kasbah hill and its inscription, Agadir
AgadirThe beach below the Kasbah hill and its inscription
The Scott Monument and Princes Street Gardens, Edinburgh
EdinburghThe Scott Monument and Princes Street Gardens

Photos: Agadir by michiel1972, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Edinburgh by Carlos Delgado, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Agadir or Edinburgh?

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 Edinburgh for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Edinburgh’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, Edinburgh 22: Agadir leads by 50 points.
Food & drink. Agadir 50, Edinburgh 53: Edinburgh leads by 3 points.
Culture & sights. Agadir 22, Edinburgh 75: Edinburgh leads by 53 points.
Nightlife. Agadir 33, Edinburgh 50: Edinburgh leads by 17 points.
Nature & outdoors. Agadir 65, Edinburgh 75: Edinburgh leads by 10 points.
Day trips. Agadir 38, Edinburgh 75: Edinburgh leads by 37 points.
Good for families. Agadir 58, Edinburgh 62: Edinburgh leads by 4 points.
Getting around. Agadir 45, Edinburgh 74: Edinburgh leads by 29 points.
Shopping & style. Agadir 38, Edinburgh 50: Edinburgh leads by 12 points.
Affordability. Agadir 70, Edinburgh 30: Agadir leads by 40 points.
Live music & performing arts. Agadir 18, Edinburgh 72: Edinburgh leads by 54 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Agadir 60, Edinburgh 34: Agadir leads by 26 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Agadir and Edinburgh.

Your match

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

Agadir
47match

Wins on beaches and prices with your weighting.

Edinburgh
Best match
56match

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

Edinburgh in July

19 °Cdaytime high
11 °Cnight-time low
66 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
14 °Csea
17 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.

Edinburgh 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.

Edinburgh's sunshine is measured 52 km from the centre, at Leuchars.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Agadir: 1945-2025 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Agadir (4.5 km from centre). Edinburgh: 1991-2020 normals, Edinburgh Airport (10 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAgadirEdinburgh
Official languageArabic, Standard Moroccan TamazightEnglish
CurrencyMoroccan Dirham (MAD)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsCE50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1UTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15112 or 999
Elevation74 m47 m
Main airportAl Massira Airport (AGA)20 km from centre75 non-stop destinationsEdinburgh Airport (EDI)11 km from centre163 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureAgadirEdinburgh
City population538,000488,050
People per km²-1,884
Museums within 10 km132
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Swim season, months above 21 °CNoneNone

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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.