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The beach below the Kasbah hill and its inscription, Agadir
AgadirThe beach below the Kasbah hill and its inscription
The old town on the Neckar, Heidelberg
HeidelbergThe old town on the Neckar

Photos: Agadir by michiel1972, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Heidelberg by Kuanling Chen, Pexels License.

Agadir or Heidelberg?

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 Heidelberg for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Heidelberg’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, Heidelberg 7: Agadir leads by 65 points.
Food & drink. Agadir 50, Heidelberg 40: Agadir leads by 10 points.
Culture & sights. Agadir 22, Heidelberg 58: Heidelberg leads by 36 points.
Nightlife. Agadir 33, Heidelberg 38: Heidelberg leads by 5 points.
Nature & outdoors. Agadir 65, Heidelberg 60: Agadir leads by 5 points.
Day trips. Agadir 38, Heidelberg 78: Heidelberg leads by 40 points.
Good for families. Agadir 58, Heidelberg 62: Heidelberg leads by 4 points.
Getting around. Agadir 45, Heidelberg 72: Heidelberg leads by 27 points.
Shopping & style. Agadir 38, Heidelberg 40: Heidelberg leads by 2 points.
Affordability. Agadir 70, Heidelberg 42: Agadir leads by 28 points.
Live music & performing arts. Agadir 18, Heidelberg 48: Heidelberg leads by 30 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Agadir 60, Heidelberg 44: Agadir leads by 16 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Agadir and Heidelberg.

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.

Heidelberg
49match

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

Heidelberg in July

26 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
80 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
No seasea
16 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). Heidelberg: 1991-2020 normals, Heidelberg (4.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAgadirHeidelberg
Official languageArabic, Standard Moroccan TamazightGerman
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 m114 m
Main airportAl Massira Airport (AGA)20 km from centre75 non-stop destinationsFrankfurt Main Airport (FRA)69 km from centre281 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureAgadirHeidelberg
City population538,000156,092
People per km²-1,433
Museums within 10 km117
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km04
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.