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The beach below the Kasbah hill and its inscription, Agadir
AgadirThe beach below the Kasbah hill and its inscription
The Blue Mosque, Istanbul
IstanbulThe Blue Mosque

Photos: Agadir by michiel1972, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Istanbul by AXP Photography, Pexels License.

Agadir or Istanbul?

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
  • nature and the outdoors
  • prices

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

Choose Istanbul for

  • culture and sights
  • shopping
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Istanbul’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, Istanbul 45: Agadir leads by 27 points.
Food & drink. Agadir 50, Istanbul 87: Istanbul leads by 37 points.
Culture & sights. Agadir 22, Istanbul 90: Istanbul leads by 68 points.
Nightlife. Agadir 33, Istanbul 77: Istanbul leads by 44 points.
Nature & outdoors. Agadir 65, Istanbul 52: Agadir leads by 13 points.
Day trips. Agadir 38, Istanbul 55: Istanbul leads by 17 points.
Good for families. Agadir 58, Istanbul 55: Agadir leads by 3 points.
Getting around. Agadir 45, Istanbul 62: Istanbul leads by 17 points.
Shopping & style. Agadir 38, Istanbul 86: Istanbul leads by 48 points.
Affordability. Agadir 70, Istanbul 60: Agadir leads by 10 points.
Live music & performing arts. Agadir 18, Istanbul 62: Istanbul leads by 44 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Agadir 60, Istanbul 75: Istanbul leads by 15 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Agadir and Istanbul.

Your match

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

Agadir
47match

Wins on beaches and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Istanbul
Best match
67match

Wins on culture and sights and shopping 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

Istanbul in July

30 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
23 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
23 °Csea
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.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Agadir: 1945-2025 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Agadir (4.5 km from centre). Istanbul: 1991-2020 normals, Istanbul / Goztepe (9.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAgadirIstanbul
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 m100 m
Main airportAl Massira Airport (AGA)20 km from centre75 non-stop destinationsİstanbul Airport (IST)36 km from centre343 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureAgadirIstanbul
City population538,00015,655,924
People per km²-2,930
Museums within 10 km173
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone3 months

Where else could you go?

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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.