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The beach below the Kasbah hill and its inscription, Agadir
AgadirThe beach below the Kasbah hill and its inscription
The floating torii of Itsukushima at Miyajima, Hiroshima
HiroshimaThe floating torii of Itsukushima at Miyajima

Photos: Agadir by michiel1972, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Hiroshima by Guohua Song, Pexels License.

Agadir or Hiroshima?

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 Hiroshima for

  • day trips
  • culture and sights
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Hiroshima’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, Hiroshima 30: Agadir leads by 42 points.
Food & drink. Agadir 50, Hiroshima 66: Hiroshima leads by 16 points.
Culture & sights. Agadir 22, Hiroshima 60: Hiroshima leads by 38 points.
Nightlife. Agadir 33, Hiroshima 45: Hiroshima leads by 12 points.
Nature & outdoors. Agadir 65, Hiroshima 62: Agadir leads by 3 points.
Day trips. Agadir 38, Hiroshima 80: Hiroshima leads by 42 points.
Good for families. Agadir 58, Hiroshima 60: Hiroshima leads by 2 points.
Getting around. Agadir 45, Hiroshima 74: Hiroshima leads by 29 points.
Shopping & style. Agadir 38, Hiroshima 52: Hiroshima leads by 14 points.
Affordability. Agadir 70, Hiroshima 58: Agadir leads by 12 points.
Live music & performing arts. Agadir 18, Hiroshima 38: Hiroshima leads by 20 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Agadir 60, Hiroshima 50: Agadir leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Agadir and Hiroshima.

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.

Hiroshima
Best match
56match

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

Hiroshima in July

31 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
299 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
24 °Csea
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). Hiroshima: 1991-2020 normals, Hiroshima (1.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAgadirHiroshima
Official languageArabic, Standard Moroccan TamazightJapanese
CurrencyMoroccan Dirham (MAD)Yen (JPY)
SocketsCE50 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1UTC+9
Emergency numberPolice 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15Police 110, fire 119
Elevation74 m3 m
Main airportAl Massira Airport (AGA)20 km from centre75 non-stop destinationsHiroshima Airport (HIJ)43 km from centre10 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureAgadirHiroshima
City population538,0001,198,021
People per km²-1,324
Museums within 10 km118
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone4 months

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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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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.