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The beach below the Kasbah hill and its inscription, Agadir
AgadirThe beach below the Kasbah hill and its inscription
The Big Buddha on the hill above Phuket, Phuket
PhuketThe Big Buddha on the hill above Phuket

Photos: Agadir by michiel1972, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Phuket by Mussi Katz, CC0.

Agadir or Phuket?

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

  • getting around
  • prices

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

Choose Phuket for

  • nightlife
  • wellness
  • beaches

What lies behind each score is written up on Phuket’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, Phuket 90: Phuket leads by 18 points.
Food & drink. Agadir 50, Phuket 66: Phuket leads by 16 points.
Culture & sights. Agadir 22, Phuket 35: Phuket leads by 13 points.
Nightlife. Agadir 33, Phuket 72: Phuket leads by 39 points.
Nature & outdoors. Agadir 65, Phuket 80: Phuket leads by 15 points.
Day trips. Agadir 38, Phuket 45: Phuket leads by 7 points.
Good for families. Agadir 58, Phuket 65: Phuket leads by 7 points.
Getting around. Agadir 45, Phuket 22: Agadir leads by 23 points.
Shopping & style. Agadir 38, Phuket 42: Phuket leads by 4 points.
Affordability. Agadir 70, Phuket 68: Agadir leads by 2 points.
Live music & performing arts. Agadir 18, Phuket 20: Phuket leads by 2 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Agadir 60, Phuket 82: Phuket leads by 22 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Agadir and Phuket.

Your match

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

Agadir
47match

Wins on getting around and prices with your weighting.

Phuket
Best match
57match

Wins on nightlife and wellness 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

Phuket in July

32 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
287 mmrain in the month
30 °Csea
13 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.

Phuket's temperatures are measured 27 km from the centre, at Phuket Airport.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Agadir: 1945-2025 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Agadir (4.5 km from centre). Phuket: 1991-2020 (rainfall 1961-1990) normals, Phuket Airport (26.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAgadirPhuket
Official languageArabic, Standard Moroccan TamazightThai
CurrencyMoroccan Dirham (MAD)Baht (THB)
SocketsCE50 HzABCF220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1UTC+7
Emergency numberPolice 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15Police 191, ambulance 1669, fire 199
Elevation74 m19 m
Main airportAl Massira Airport (AGA)20 km from centre75 non-stop destinationsPhuket International Airport (HKT)27 km from centre85 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days-

By the numbers

MeasureAgadirPhuket
City population538,00077,610
People per km²-6,468
Museums within 10 km12
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. 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.