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The beach below the Kasbah hill and its inscription, Agadir
AgadirThe beach below the Kasbah hill and its inscription
Comares Tower and the Palace of Charles V, Alhambra, Granada
GranadaComares Tower and the Palace of Charles V, Alhambra

Photos: Agadir by michiel1972, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Granada by Jebulon, CC0.

Agadir or Granada?

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
  • wellness
  • prices

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

Choose Granada for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Granada’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, Granada 38: Agadir leads by 34 points.
Food & drink. Agadir 50, Granada 62: Granada leads by 12 points.
Culture & sights. Agadir 22, Granada 80: Granada leads by 58 points.
Nightlife. Agadir 33, Granada 58: Granada leads by 25 points.
Nature & outdoors. Agadir 65, Granada 80: Granada leads by 15 points.
Day trips. Agadir 38, Granada 76: Granada leads by 38 points.
Good for families. Agadir 58, Granada 52: Agadir leads by 6 points.
Getting around. Agadir 45, Granada 68: Granada leads by 23 points.
Shopping & style. Agadir 38, Granada 40: Granada leads by 2 points.
Affordability. Agadir 70, Granada 63: Agadir leads by 7 points.
Live music & performing arts. Agadir 18, Granada 58: Granada leads by 40 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Agadir 60, Granada 48: Agadir leads by 12 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Agadir and Granada.

Your match

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

Agadir
47match

Wins on beaches and wellness with your weighting.

Granada
Best match
60match

Wins on culture and sights and live music and the arts 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

Granada in July

35 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
13 hsunshine a day
No seasea
14 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). Granada: 1991-2020 normals, Granada / Caserío Hospicio (5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAgadirGranada
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 m693 m
Main airportAl Massira Airport (AGA)20 km from centre75 non-stop destinationsF.G.L. Airport Granada-Jaén Airport (GRX)16 km from centre13 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureAgadirGranada
City population538,000233,975
People per km²-2,659
Museums within 10 km120
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. 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.