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The beach below the Kasbah hill and its inscription, Agadir
AgadirThe beach below the Kasbah hill and its inscription
Palm Springs

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

Agadir or Palm Springs?

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
  • prices
  • getting around

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

Choose Palm Springs for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Palm Springs’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, Palm Springs 7: Agadir leads by 65 points.
Food & drink. Agadir 50, Palm Springs 40: Agadir leads by 10 points.
Culture & sights. Agadir 22, Palm Springs 42: Palm Springs leads by 20 points.
Nightlife. Agadir 33, Palm Springs 36: Palm Springs leads by 3 points.
Nature & outdoors. Agadir 65, Palm Springs 78: Palm Springs leads by 13 points.
Day trips. Agadir and Palm Springs are level on 38.
Good for families. Agadir 58, Palm Springs 40: Agadir leads by 18 points.
Getting around. Agadir 45, Palm Springs 22: Agadir leads by 23 points.
Shopping & style. Agadir 38, Palm Springs 44: Palm Springs leads by 6 points.
Affordability. Agadir 70, Palm Springs 32: Agadir leads by 38 points.
Live music & performing arts. Agadir 18, Palm Springs 40: Palm Springs leads by 22 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Agadir 60, Palm Springs 80: Palm Springs leads by 20 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Agadir and Palm Springs.

Your match

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

Agadir
Best match
47match

Wins on beaches and prices with your weighting.

Palm Springs
42match

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
19 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Palm Springs in July

42 °Cdaytime high
28 °Cnight-time low
5 mmrain in the month
No seasea
14 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.

Palm Springs 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). Palm Springs: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Palm Springs (2.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAgadirPalm Springs
Official languageArabic, Standard Moroccan Tamazight-
CurrencyMoroccan Dirham (MAD)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCE50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1UTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15911
Elevation74 m146 m
Main airportAl Massira Airport (AGA)20 km from centre75 non-stop destinationsPalm Springs International Airport (PSP)2 km from centre29 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureAgadirPalm Springs
City population538,00044,575
People per km²-181
Museums within 10 km13
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
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.