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The beach below the Kasbah hill and its inscription, Agadir
AgadirThe beach below the Kasbah hill and its inscription
Palacio Salvo under a blue sky, Montevideo
MontevideoPalacio Salvo under a blue sky

Photos: Agadir by michiel1972, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Montevideo by Andrés Franchi Ugart…, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Agadir or Montevideo?

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

  • nature and the outdoors
  • prices
  • wellness

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

Choose Montevideo for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Montevideo’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, Montevideo 55: Agadir leads by 17 points.
Food & drink. Agadir 50, Montevideo 57: Montevideo leads by 7 points.
Culture & sights. Agadir 22, Montevideo 54: Montevideo leads by 32 points.
Nightlife. Agadir 33, Montevideo 50: Montevideo leads by 17 points.
Nature & outdoors. Agadir 65, Montevideo 34: Agadir leads by 31 points.
Day trips. Agadir 38, Montevideo 55: Montevideo leads by 17 points.
Good for families. Agadir 58, Montevideo 55: Agadir leads by 3 points.
Getting around. Agadir 45, Montevideo 54: Montevideo leads by 9 points.
Shopping & style. Agadir 38, Montevideo 36: Agadir leads by 2 points.
Affordability. Agadir 70, Montevideo 42: Agadir leads by 28 points.
Live music & performing arts. Agadir 18, Montevideo 57: Montevideo leads by 39 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Agadir 60, Montevideo 38: Agadir leads by 22 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Agadir and Montevideo.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Agadir
47match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and prices with your weighting.

Montevideo
49match

Wins on live music and the arts and culture and sights 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

Montevideo in July

15 °Cdaytime high
6 °Cnight-time low
99 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
11 °Csea
10 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). Montevideo: 1991-2020 normals, Carrasco (19.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAgadirMontevideo
Official languageArabic, Standard Moroccan Tamazight-
CurrencyMoroccan Dirham (MAD)Peso Uruguayo (UYU)
SocketsCE50 HzCFIL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1UTC-3
Emergency numberPolice 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15911
Elevation74 m41 m
Main airportAl Massira Airport (AGA)20 km from centre75 non-stop destinationsCarrasco General Cesáreo L. Berisso International Airport (MVD)17 km from centre15 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureAgadirMontevideo
City population538,0001,302,954
People per km²-1,785
Museums within 10 km136
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
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. 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.