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The beach below the Kasbah hill and its inscription, Agadir
AgadirThe beach below the Kasbah hill and its inscription
Main Beach with its palms and lifeguard tower, Laguna Beach
Laguna BeachMain Beach with its palms and lifeguard tower

Photos: Agadir by michiel1972, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Laguna Beach by Mark Stebnicki, Pexels License.

Agadir or Laguna Beach?

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

  • prices
  • nightlife
  • wellness

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

Choose Laguna Beach for

  • day trips
  • live music and the arts
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Laguna Beach’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 and Laguna Beach are level on 72.
Food & drink. Agadir 50, Laguna Beach 40: Agadir leads by 10 points.
Culture & sights. Agadir 22, Laguna Beach 27: Laguna Beach leads by 5 points.
Nightlife. Agadir 33, Laguna Beach 18: Agadir leads by 15 points.
Nature & outdoors. Agadir 65, Laguna Beach 73: Laguna Beach leads by 8 points.
Day trips. Agadir 38, Laguna Beach 72: Laguna Beach leads by 34 points.
Good for families. Agadir 58, Laguna Beach 68: Laguna Beach leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Agadir 45, Laguna Beach 33: Agadir leads by 12 points.
Shopping & style. Agadir 38, Laguna Beach 46: Laguna Beach leads by 8 points.
Affordability. Agadir 70, Laguna Beach 12: Agadir leads by 58 points.
Live music & performing arts. Agadir 18, Laguna Beach 40: Laguna Beach leads by 22 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Agadir 60, Laguna Beach 47: Agadir leads by 13 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Agadir and Laguna Beach.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Agadir
47match

Wins on prices and nightlife with your weighting.

Laguna Beach
46match

Wins on day trips and live music and the arts 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
19 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Laguna Beach in July

28 °Cdaytime high
17 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
20 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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AgadirLaguna Beach

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). Laguna Beach: 1981-2010 normals, Irvine (15.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAgadirLaguna Beach
Official languageArabic, Standard Moroccan Tamazight-
CurrencyMoroccan Dirham (MAD)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCE50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1UTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15911
Elevation74 m6 m
Main airportAl Massira Airport (AGA)20 km from centre75 non-stop destinationsJohn Wayne Orange County International Airport (SNA)18 km from centre53 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureAgadirLaguna Beach
City population538,00023,032
People per km²-907
Museums within 10 km12
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °CNoneNone

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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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.