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The beach below the Kasbah hill and its inscription, Agadir
AgadirThe beach below the Kasbah hill and its inscription
The opera house on Place de la Comédie, Montpellier
MontpellierThe opera house on Place de la Comédie

Photos: Agadir by michiel1972, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Montpellier by Peter, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Agadir or Montpellier?

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 Montpellier for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Montpellier’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, Montpellier 64: Agadir leads by 8 points.
Food & drink. Agadir 50, Montpellier 64: Montpellier leads by 14 points.
Culture & sights. Agadir 22, Montpellier 60: Montpellier leads by 38 points.
Nightlife. Agadir 33, Montpellier 56: Montpellier leads by 23 points.
Nature & outdoors. Agadir 65, Montpellier 72: Montpellier leads by 7 points.
Day trips. Agadir 38, Montpellier 85: Montpellier leads by 47 points.
Good for families. Agadir 58, Montpellier 62: Montpellier leads by 4 points.
Getting around. Agadir 45, Montpellier 74: Montpellier leads by 29 points.
Shopping & style. Agadir 38, Montpellier 47: Montpellier leads by 9 points.
Affordability. Agadir 70, Montpellier 50: Agadir leads by 20 points.
Live music & performing arts. Agadir 18, Montpellier 63: Montpellier leads by 45 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Agadir 60, Montpellier 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 Montpellier.

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.

Montpellier
Best match
62match

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

Montpellier in July

30 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
17 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
21 °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). Montpellier: 1991-2020 normals, Montpellier (7.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAgadirMontpellier
Official languageArabic, Standard Moroccan TamazightFrench
CurrencyMoroccan Dirham (MAD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15112
Elevation74 m7 m
Main airportAl Massira Airport (AGA)20 km from centre75 non-stop destinationsMontpellier-Méditerranée Airport (MPL)8 km from centre41 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureAgadirMontpellier
City population538,000310,240
People per km²-5,452
Museums within 10 km114
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone2 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. 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.