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The beach below the Kasbah hill and its inscription, Agadir
AgadirThe beach below the Kasbah hill and its inscription
White sand and turquoise water at Pensacola Beach, Pensacola
PensacolaWhite sand and turquoise water at Pensacola Beach

Photos: Agadir by michiel1972, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Pensacola by Jason Meredith, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Agadir or Pensacola?

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

  • wellness
  • getting around
  • prices

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

Choose Pensacola for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Pensacola’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, Pensacola 84: Pensacola leads by 12 points.
Food & drink. Agadir 50, Pensacola 45: Agadir leads by 5 points.
Culture & sights. Agadir 22, Pensacola 45: Pensacola leads by 23 points.
Nightlife. Agadir 33, Pensacola 42: Pensacola leads by 9 points.
Nature & outdoors. Agadir 65, Pensacola 62: Agadir leads by 3 points.
Day trips. Agadir 38, Pensacola 45: Pensacola leads by 7 points.
Good for families. Agadir 58, Pensacola 62: Pensacola leads by 4 points.
Getting around. Agadir 45, Pensacola 18: Agadir leads by 27 points.
Shopping & style. Agadir 38, Pensacola 28: Agadir leads by 10 points.
Affordability. Agadir 70, Pensacola 44: Agadir leads by 26 points.
Live music & performing arts. Agadir 18, Pensacola 36: Pensacola leads by 18 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Agadir 60, Pensacola 30: Agadir leads by 30 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Agadir and Pensacola.

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 wellness and getting around with your weighting.

Pensacola
45match

Wins on culture and sights 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
19 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Pensacola in July

33 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
200 mmrain in the month
29 °Csea
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.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Agadir: 1945-2025 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Agadir (4.5 km from centre). Pensacola: 1991-2020 normals, Pensacola / Pleasant Grove (12.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAgadirPensacola
Official languageArabic, Standard Moroccan Tamazight-
CurrencyMoroccan Dirham (MAD)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCE50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1UTC-6, UTC-5 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15911
Elevation74 m31 m
Main airportAl Massira Airport (AGA)20 km from centre75 non-stop destinationsPensacola International Airport (PNS)6 km from centre27 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureAgadirPensacola
City population538,00054,312
People per km²-515
Museums within 10 km15
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone7 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. 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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.