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The beach below the Kasbah hill and its inscription, Agadir
AgadirThe beach below the Kasbah hill and its inscription
The Fortaleza San Felipe, Puerto Plata
Puerto PlataThe Fortaleza San Felipe

Photos: Agadir by michiel1972, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Puerto Plata by CareAhLine, CC0.

Agadir or Puerto Plata?

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
  • food and drink

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

Choose Puerto Plata for

  • culture and sights
  • day trips
  • beaches

What lies behind each score is written up on Puerto Plata’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, Puerto Plata 80: Puerto Plata leads by 8 points.
Food & drink. Agadir 50, Puerto Plata 40: Agadir leads by 10 points.
Culture & sights. Agadir 22, Puerto Plata 35: Puerto Plata leads by 13 points.
Nightlife. Agadir 33, Puerto Plata 38: Puerto Plata leads by 5 points.
Nature & outdoors. Agadir 65, Puerto Plata 68: Puerto Plata leads by 3 points.
Day trips. Agadir 38, Puerto Plata 48: Puerto Plata leads by 10 points.
Good for families. Agadir 58, Puerto Plata 57: Agadir leads by 1 points.
Getting around. Agadir 45, Puerto Plata 30: Agadir leads by 15 points.
Shopping & style. Agadir 38, Puerto Plata 30: Agadir leads by 8 points.
Affordability. Agadir 70, Puerto Plata 64: Agadir leads by 6 points.
Live music & performing arts. Agadir and Puerto Plata are level on 18.
Wellness & relaxation. Agadir 60, Puerto Plata 35: Agadir leads by 25 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Agadir and Puerto Plata.

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.

Puerto Plata
45match

Wins on culture and sights and day trips 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

Puerto Plata in July

33 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
67 mmrain in the month
28 °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.

Puerto Plata 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). Puerto Plata: 1993-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Puerto Plata (15.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAgadirPuerto Plata
Official languageArabic, Standard Moroccan TamazightSpanish
CurrencyMoroccan Dirham (MAD)Dominican Peso (DOP)
SocketsCE50 HzAB110 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1UTC-4
Emergency numberPolice 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15911
Elevation74 m34 m
Main airportAl Massira Airport (AGA)20 km from centre75 non-stop destinationsGregorio Luperon International Airport (POP)13 km from centre16 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureAgadirPuerto Plata
City population538,000-
Museums within 10 km11
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. 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.