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The beach below the Kasbah hill and its inscription, Agadir
AgadirThe beach below the Kasbah hill and its inscription
The Metropolitan Cathedral on the Zócalo, Mexico City
Mexico CityThe Metropolitan Cathedral on the Zócalo

Photos: Agadir by michiel1972, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Mexico City by Oscar Dominguez, Pexels License.

Agadir or Mexico City?

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
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Mexico City for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Mexico City’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, Mexico City 5: Agadir leads by 67 points.
Food & drink. Agadir 50, Mexico City 90: Mexico City leads by 40 points.
Culture & sights. Agadir 22, Mexico City 88: Mexico City leads by 66 points.
Nightlife. Agadir 33, Mexico City 80: Mexico City leads by 47 points.
Nature & outdoors. Agadir 65, Mexico City 50: Agadir leads by 15 points.
Day trips. Agadir 38, Mexico City 75: Mexico City leads by 37 points.
Good for families. Agadir and Mexico City are level on 58.
Getting around. Agadir 45, Mexico City 50: Mexico City leads by 5 points.
Shopping & style. Agadir 38, Mexico City 76: Mexico City leads by 38 points.
Affordability. Agadir 70, Mexico City 75: Mexico City leads by 5 points.
Live music & performing arts. Agadir 18, Mexico City 72: Mexico City leads by 54 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Agadir 60, Mexico City 40: Agadir leads by 20 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Agadir and Mexico City.

Your match

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

Agadir
47match

Wins on beaches and wellness with your weighting.

Mexico City
Best match
63match

Wins on culture and sights 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
No recordsunshine a day
19 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Mexico City in July

25 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
176 mmrain in the month
6 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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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). Mexico City: 1991-2020 normals, Mexico Central, D. F. (7.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAgadirMexico City
Official languageArabic, Standard Moroccan TamazightSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyMoroccan Dirham (MAD)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsCE50 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1UTC-6
Emergency numberPolice 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15911
Elevation74 m2,240 m
Main airportAl Massira Airport (AGA)20 km from centre75 non-stop destinationsMexico City Benito Juárez International Airport (MEX)7 km from centre109 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureAgadirMexico City
City population538,0009,209,944
People per km²-6,202
Museums within 10 km1108
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km06
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.