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The beach below the Kasbah hill and its inscription, Agadir
AgadirThe beach below the Kasbah hill and its inscription
Hot-air balloons over Cappadocia at sunrise, Goreme
GoremeHot-air balloons over Cappadocia at sunrise

Photos: Agadir by michiel1972, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Goreme by Guerrero De la Luz, Pexels License.

Agadir or Goreme?

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
  • food and drink
  • nightlife

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

Choose Goreme for

  • day trips
  • culture and sights
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Goreme’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, Goreme 3: Agadir leads by 69 points.
Food & drink. Agadir 50, Goreme 20: Agadir leads by 30 points.
Culture & sights. Agadir 22, Goreme 45: Goreme leads by 23 points.
Nightlife. Agadir 33, Goreme 5: Agadir leads by 28 points.
Nature & outdoors. Agadir 65, Goreme 74: Goreme leads by 9 points.
Day trips. Agadir 38, Goreme 70: Goreme leads by 32 points.
Good for families. Agadir 58, Goreme 40: Agadir leads by 18 points.
Getting around. Agadir 45, Goreme 40: Agadir leads by 5 points.
Shopping & style. Agadir 38, Goreme 22: Agadir leads by 16 points.
Affordability. Agadir 70, Goreme 58: Agadir leads by 12 points.
Live music & performing arts. Agadir 18, Goreme 10: Agadir leads by 8 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Agadir 60, Goreme 42: Agadir leads by 18 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Agadir and Goreme.

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 food and drink with your weighting.

Goreme
36match

Wins on day trips 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

Goreme in July

30 °Cdaytime high
15 °Cnight-time low
13 mmrain in the month
13 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.

Goreme's station stands 160 m above the city centre, so the centre is likely a little warmer than the figures say.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Agadir: 1945-2025 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Agadir (4.5 km from centre). Goreme: 1991-2020 normals, Nevsehir (10.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAgadirGoreme
Official languageArabic, Standard Moroccan TamazightTurkish
CurrencyMoroccan Dirham (MAD)Turkish Lira (TRY)
SocketsCE50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1UTC+3
Emergency numberPolice 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15112
Elevation74 m1,100 m
Main airportAl Massira Airport (AGA)20 km from centre75 non-stop destinationsKayseri Erkilet International Airport (ASR)60 km from centre22 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureAgadirGoreme
City population538,0002,000
People per km²-20
Museums within 10 km15
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
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. 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.