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The beach below the Kasbah hill and its inscription, Agadir
AgadirThe beach below the Kasbah hill and its inscription
Palms on a white beach at Cap Cana, Punta Cana
Punta CanaPalms on a white beach at Cap Cana

Photos: Agadir by michiel1972, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Punta Cana by Mary Mark Ockerbloom, CC0.

Agadir or Punta Cana?

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
  • food and drink

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

Choose Punta Cana for

  • beaches
  • families
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Punta Cana’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, Punta Cana 94: Punta Cana leads by 22 points.
Food & drink. Agadir 50, Punta Cana 30: Agadir leads by 20 points.
Culture & sights. Agadir 22, Punta Cana 8: Agadir leads by 14 points.
Nightlife. Agadir 33, Punta Cana 40: Punta Cana leads by 7 points.
Nature & outdoors. Agadir 65, Punta Cana 52: Agadir leads by 13 points.
Day trips. Agadir 38, Punta Cana 35: Agadir leads by 3 points.
Good for families. Agadir 58, Punta Cana 68: Punta Cana leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Agadir 45, Punta Cana 15: Agadir leads by 30 points.
Shopping & style. Agadir 38, Punta Cana 30: Agadir leads by 8 points.
Affordability. Agadir 70, Punta Cana 44: Agadir leads by 26 points.
Live music & performing arts. Agadir 18, Punta Cana 15: Agadir leads by 3 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Agadir 60, Punta Cana 52: Agadir leads by 8 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Agadir and Punta Cana.

Your match

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

Agadir
Best match
47match

Wins on getting around and prices with your weighting.

Punta Cana
40match

Wins on beaches and families 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

Punta Cana in July

32 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
96 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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AgadirPunta Cana

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.

Punta Cana 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). Punta Cana: 1993-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Punta Cana (0.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAgadirPunta Cana
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 m28 m
Main airportAl Massira Airport (AGA)20 km from centre75 non-stop destinationsPunta Cana International Airport (PUJ)1 km from centre93 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureAgadirPunta Cana
City population538,000138,919
People per km²-292
Museums within 10 km10
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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.