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The beach below the Kasbah hill and its inscription, Agadir
AgadirThe beach below the Kasbah hill and its inscription
Wat Xieng Thong temple, Luang Prabang
Luang PrabangWat Xieng Thong temple

Photos: Agadir by michiel1972, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Luang Prabang by Basile Morin, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Agadir or Luang Prabang?

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
  • nightlife
  • families

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

Choose Luang Prabang for

  • culture and sights
  • prices
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Luang Prabang’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, Luang Prabang 14: Agadir leads by 58 points.
Food & drink. Agadir 50, Luang Prabang 42: Agadir leads by 8 points.
Culture & sights. Agadir 22, Luang Prabang 65: Luang Prabang leads by 43 points.
Nightlife. Agadir 33, Luang Prabang 8: Agadir leads by 25 points.
Nature & outdoors. Agadir 65, Luang Prabang 68: Luang Prabang leads by 3 points.
Day trips. Agadir 38, Luang Prabang 35: Agadir leads by 3 points.
Good for families. Agadir 58, Luang Prabang 38: Agadir leads by 20 points.
Getting around. Agadir 45, Luang Prabang 50: Luang Prabang leads by 5 points.
Shopping & style. Agadir and Luang Prabang are level on 38.
Affordability. Agadir 70, Luang Prabang 80: Luang Prabang leads by 10 points.
Live music & performing arts. Agadir and Luang Prabang are level on 18.
Wellness & relaxation. Agadir and Luang Prabang are level on 60.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Agadir and Luang Prabang.

Your match

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

Agadir
Best match
47match

Wins on beaches and nightlife with your weighting.

Luang Prabang
43match

Wins on culture and sights and prices 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

Luang Prabang in July

33 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
250 mmrain in the month
4 hsunshine a day
No seasea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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AgadirLuang Prabang

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). Luang Prabang: 1991-2020 normals, Luang-Prabang (0.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAgadirLuang Prabang
Official languageArabic, Standard Moroccan TamazightLao
CurrencyMoroccan Dirham (MAD)Lao Kip (LAK)
SocketsCE50 HzABCEF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1UTC+7
Emergency numberPolice 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15Police 191, ambulance 195, fire 190
Elevation74 m305 m
Main airportAl Massira Airport (AGA)20 km from centre75 non-stop destinationsLuang Phabang International Airport (LPQ)4 km from centre7 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days-

By the numbers

MeasureAgadirLuang Prabang
City population538,00053,792
Museums within 10 km10
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
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. 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.