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The beach below the Kasbah hill and its inscription, Agadir
AgadirThe beach below the Kasbah hill and its inscription
The limestone terraces of Dunn's River Falls, Ocho Rios
Ocho RiosThe limestone terraces of Dunn's River Falls

Photos: Agadir by michiel1972, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Ocho Rios by Dr. Thomas Liptak, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Agadir or Ocho Rios?

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
  • getting around
  • shopping

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

Choose Ocho Rios for

  • day trips
  • nature and the outdoors
  • beaches

What lies behind each score is written up on Ocho Rios’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, Ocho Rios 78: Ocho Rios leads by 6 points.
Food & drink. Agadir 50, Ocho Rios 42: Agadir leads by 8 points.
Culture & sights. Agadir 22, Ocho Rios 16: Agadir leads by 6 points.
Nightlife. Agadir 33, Ocho Rios 28: Agadir leads by 5 points.
Nature & outdoors. Agadir 65, Ocho Rios 72: Ocho Rios leads by 7 points.
Day trips. Agadir 38, Ocho Rios 56: Ocho Rios leads by 18 points.
Good for families. Agadir 58, Ocho Rios 60: Ocho Rios leads by 2 points.
Getting around. Agadir 45, Ocho Rios 24: Agadir leads by 21 points.
Shopping & style. Agadir 38, Ocho Rios 26: Agadir leads by 12 points.
Affordability. Agadir 70, Ocho Rios 42: Agadir leads by 28 points.
Live music & performing arts. Agadir 18, Ocho Rios 14: Agadir leads by 4 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Agadir 60, Ocho Rios 50: Agadir leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Agadir and Ocho Rios.

Your match

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

Agadir
Best match
47match

Wins on prices and getting around with your weighting.

Ocho Rios
42match

Wins on day trips and nature and the outdoors 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

Ocho Rios in July

33 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
85 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
29 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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AgadirOcho Rios

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.

Ocho Rios's temperatures are measured 62 km from the centre, at Kingston / Norman Manley.

Ocho Rios 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). Ocho Rios: 1991-2020 normals, Kingston / Norman Manley (61.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAgadirOcho Rios
Official languageArabic, Standard Moroccan TamazightEnglish, Jamaican Patois
CurrencyMoroccan Dirham (MAD)Jamaican Dollar (JMD)
SocketsCE50 HzAB116 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1UTC-5
Emergency numberPolice 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15Police 110/112/119/911, ambulance 110, fire 110
Elevation74 m59 m
Main airportAl Massira Airport (AGA)20 km from centre75 non-stop destinationsSangster International Airport (MBJ)86 km from centre48 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureAgadirOcho Rios
City population538,00016,671
Museums within 10 km10
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone12 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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.