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The beach below the Kasbah hill and its inscription, Agadir
AgadirThe beach below the Kasbah hill and its inscription
Ferries off the Kordon promenade, Izmir
IzmirFerries off the Kordon promenade

Photos: Agadir by michiel1972, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Izmir by Toygar Par, Pexels License.

Agadir or Izmir?

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
  • families

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

Choose Izmir for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Izmir’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, Izmir 62: Agadir leads by 10 points.
Food & drink. Agadir 50, Izmir 72: Izmir leads by 22 points.
Culture & sights. Agadir 22, Izmir 55: Izmir leads by 33 points.
Nightlife. Agadir 33, Izmir 60: Izmir leads by 27 points.
Nature & outdoors. Agadir 65, Izmir 66: Izmir leads by 1 points.
Day trips. Agadir 38, Izmir 86: Izmir leads by 48 points.
Good for families. Agadir 58, Izmir 55: Agadir leads by 3 points.
Getting around. Agadir 45, Izmir 63: Izmir leads by 18 points.
Shopping & style. Agadir 38, Izmir 55: Izmir leads by 17 points.
Affordability. Agadir 70, Izmir 66: Agadir leads by 4 points.
Live music & performing arts. Agadir 18, Izmir 48: Izmir leads by 30 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Agadir 60, Izmir 57: Agadir leads by 3 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Agadir and Izmir.

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.

Izmir
Best match
62match

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

Izmir in July

34 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
13 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). Izmir: 1991-2020 normals, Izmir (3.4 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAgadirIzmir
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 m2 m
Main airportAl Massira Airport (AGA)20 km from centre75 non-stop destinationsAdnan Menderes International Airport (ADB)13 km from centre120 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureAgadirIzmir
City population538,0004,493,242
People per km²-4,760
Museums within 10 km129
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone5 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. 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.