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The beach below the Kasbah hill and its inscription, Agadir
AgadirThe beach below the Kasbah hill and its inscription
The Johannesburg skyline and the Hillbrow Tower, Johannesburg
JohannesburgThe Johannesburg skyline and the Hillbrow Tower

Photos: Agadir by michiel1972, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Johannesburg by K, Pexels License.

Agadir or Johannesburg?

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
  • getting around

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

Choose Johannesburg for

  • live music and the arts
  • culture and sights
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Johannesburg’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, Johannesburg 5: Agadir leads by 67 points.
Food & drink. Agadir 50, Johannesburg 58: Johannesburg leads by 8 points.
Culture & sights. Agadir 22, Johannesburg 56: Johannesburg leads by 34 points.
Nightlife. Agadir 33, Johannesburg 62: Johannesburg leads by 29 points.
Nature & outdoors. Agadir 65, Johannesburg 55: Agadir leads by 10 points.
Day trips. Agadir 38, Johannesburg 52: Johannesburg leads by 14 points.
Good for families. Agadir 58, Johannesburg 42: Agadir leads by 16 points.
Getting around. Agadir 45, Johannesburg 18: Agadir leads by 27 points.
Shopping & style. Agadir 38, Johannesburg 58: Johannesburg leads by 20 points.
Affordability. Agadir 70, Johannesburg 72: Johannesburg leads by 2 points.
Live music & performing arts. Agadir 18, Johannesburg 55: Johannesburg leads by 37 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Agadir 60, Johannesburg 28: Agadir leads by 32 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Agadir and Johannesburg.

Your match

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

Too close to call, level with your weighting

Agadir
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Wins on beaches and wellness with your weighting.

Johannesburg
47match

Wins on live music and the arts 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

Johannesburg in July

19 °Cdaytime high
4 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
No seasea
11 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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AgadirJohannesburg

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). Johannesburg: 2005-2019 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Johannesburg B / Roosevelt Park (7.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAgadirJohannesburg
Official languageArabic, Standard Moroccan TamazightEnglish, Zulu, Xhosa, Afrikaans, Venda, Northern Sotho, Swazi, Tswana, Tsonga, Sesotho, Southern Ndebele, South African Sign Language
CurrencyMoroccan Dirham (MAD)Rand (ZAR)
SocketsCE50 HzCMN230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1UTC+2
Emergency numberPolice 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15112
Elevation74 m1,753 m
Main airportAl Massira Airport (AGA)20 km from centre75 non-stop destinationsO.R. Tambo International Airport (JNB)22 km from centre84 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureAgadirJohannesburg
City population538,0004,803,262
People per km²-2,922
Museums within 10 km114
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
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. 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.