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The beach below the Kasbah hill and its inscription, Agadir
AgadirThe beach below the Kasbah hill and its inscription
Bougainvillea and the dome of Agia Napa Cathedral, Limassol
LimassolBougainvillea and the dome of Agia Napa Cathedral

Photos: Agadir by michiel1972, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Limassol by Julian Lupyan, CC0.

Agadir or Limassol?

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
  • wellness
  • getting around

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

Choose Limassol for

  • day trips
  • nightlife
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on Limassol’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, Limassol 77: Limassol leads by 5 points.
Food & drink. Agadir 50, Limassol 58: Limassol leads by 8 points.
Culture & sights. Agadir 22, Limassol 38: Limassol leads by 16 points.
Nightlife. Agadir 33, Limassol 50: Limassol leads by 17 points.
Nature & outdoors. Agadir and Limassol are level on 65.
Day trips. Agadir 38, Limassol 76: Limassol leads by 38 points.
Good for families. Agadir 58, Limassol 63: Limassol leads by 5 points.
Getting around. Agadir 45, Limassol 38: Agadir leads by 7 points.
Shopping & style. Agadir 38, Limassol 42: Limassol leads by 4 points.
Affordability. Agadir 70, Limassol 44: Agadir leads by 26 points.
Live music & performing arts. Agadir 18, Limassol 32: Limassol leads by 14 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Agadir 60, Limassol 42: Agadir leads by 18 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Agadir and Limassol.

Your match

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

Agadir
47match

Wins on prices and wellness with your weighting.

Limassol
Best match
52match

Wins on day trips and nightlife 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

Limassol in July

31 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
13 hsunshine a day
26 °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.

Limassol 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.

Limassol's sunshine is measured 59 km from the centre, at Larnaca Airport.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Agadir: 1945-2025 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Agadir (4.5 km from centre). Limassol: 1998-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Akrotiri (11.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAgadirLimassol
Official languageArabic, Standard Moroccan TamazightTurkish, Greek, Modern Greek
CurrencyMoroccan Dirham (MAD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE50 HzG240 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1UTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15112
Elevation74 m10 m
Main airportAl Massira Airport (AGA)20 km from centre75 non-stop destinationsLarnaca International Airport (LCA)58 km from centre112 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days17 days

By the numbers

MeasureAgadirLimassol
City population538,000107,970
People per km²-2,405
Museums within 10 km12
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone6 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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.