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The beach below the Kasbah hill and its inscription, Agadir
AgadirThe beach below the Kasbah hill and its inscription
The Casino de Monte-Carlo, Monaco
MonacoThe Casino de Monte-Carlo

Photos: Agadir by michiel1972, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Monaco by otterboris, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

Agadir or Monaco?

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
  • beaches

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

Choose Monaco for

  • day trips
  • live music and the arts
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on Monaco’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, Monaco 68: Agadir leads by 4 points.
Food & drink. Agadir 50, Monaco 57: Monaco leads by 7 points.
Culture & sights. Agadir 22, Monaco 55: Monaco leads by 33 points.
Nightlife. Agadir 33, Monaco 48: Monaco leads by 15 points.
Nature & outdoors. Agadir 65, Monaco 70: Monaco leads by 5 points.
Day trips. Agadir 38, Monaco 84: Monaco leads by 46 points.
Good for families. Agadir 58, Monaco 60: Monaco leads by 2 points.
Getting around. Agadir 45, Monaco 78: Monaco leads by 33 points.
Shopping & style. Agadir 38, Monaco 52: Monaco leads by 14 points.
Affordability. Agadir 70, Monaco 3: Agadir leads by 67 points.
Live music & performing arts. Agadir 18, Monaco 63: Monaco leads by 45 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Agadir 60, Monaco 55: Agadir leads by 5 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Agadir and Monaco.

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.

Monaco
Best match
58match

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
No recordsunshine a day
19 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Monaco in July

28 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
13 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
24 °Csea
15 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). Monaco: 1991-2020 normals, Nice (19.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAgadirMonaco
Official languageArabic, Standard Moroccan TamazightFrench
CurrencyMoroccan Dirham (MAD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE50 HzCEF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15112
Elevation74 m68 m
Main airportAl Massira Airport (AGA)20 km from centre75 non-stop destinationsNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)18 km from centre130 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureAgadirMonaco
City population538,00038,857
People per km²-18,503
Museums within 10 km114
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone4 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. 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.