VacationSelector
The beach below the Kasbah hill and its inscription, Agadir
AgadirThe beach below the Kasbah hill and its inscription
The skyline over the Schuylkill, Philadelphia
PhiladelphiaThe skyline over the Schuylkill

Photos: Agadir by michiel1972, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Philadelphia by Trev W. Adams, Pexels License.

Agadir or Philadelphia?

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
  • wellness
  • prices

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

Choose Philadelphia for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Philadelphia’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, Philadelphia 36: Agadir leads by 36 points.
Food & drink. Agadir 50, Philadelphia 62: Philadelphia leads by 12 points.
Culture & sights. Agadir 22, Philadelphia 72: Philadelphia leads by 50 points.
Nightlife. Agadir 33, Philadelphia 55: Philadelphia leads by 22 points.
Nature & outdoors. Agadir 65, Philadelphia 52: Agadir leads by 13 points.
Day trips. Agadir 38, Philadelphia 80: Philadelphia leads by 42 points.
Good for families. Agadir 58, Philadelphia 68: Philadelphia leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Agadir 45, Philadelphia 66: Philadelphia leads by 21 points.
Shopping & style. Agadir 38, Philadelphia 57: Philadelphia leads by 19 points.
Affordability. Agadir 70, Philadelphia 40: Agadir leads by 30 points.
Live music & performing arts. Agadir 18, Philadelphia 72: Philadelphia leads by 54 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Agadir 60, Philadelphia 26: Agadir leads by 34 points.
0255075100

What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Agadir and Philadelphia.

Your match

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

Agadir
47match

Wins on beaches and wellness with your weighting.

Philadelphia
Best match
57match

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

Philadelphia in July

31 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
111 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

0°10°20°30°40°JFMAMJJASOND

Rainfall in the month, mm

0255075100125JFMAMJJASOND
AgadirPhiladelphia

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). Philadelphia: 1991-2020 normals, Philadelphia International Airport (11.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAgadirPhiladelphia
Official languageArabic, Standard Moroccan Tamazight-
CurrencyMoroccan Dirham (MAD)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCE50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15911
Elevation74 m12 m
Main airportAl Massira Airport (AGA)20 km from centre75 non-stop destinationsPhiladelphia International Airport (PHL)11 km from centre129 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureAgadirPhiladelphia
City population538,0001,603,797
People per km²-4,339
Museums within 10 km154
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone-

Where else could you go?

Every comparison below shares a destination with this one, so you can follow Agadir or Philadelphia somewhere new.

Browse every destination

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.