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The beach below the Kasbah hill and its inscription, Agadir
AgadirThe beach below the Kasbah hill and its inscription
The city from Hallgrímskirkja, Reykjavik
ReykjavikThe city from Hallgrímskirkja

Photos: Agadir by michiel1972, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Reykjavik by Atlantic Ambience, Pexels License.

Agadir or Reykjavik?

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

  • prices
  • beaches
  • shopping

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

Choose Reykjavik for

  • wellness
  • nature and the outdoors
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Reykjavik’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, Reykjavik 12: Agadir leads by 60 points.
Food & drink. Agadir 50, Reykjavik 42: Agadir leads by 8 points.
Culture & sights. Agadir 22, Reykjavik 25: Reykjavik leads by 3 points.
Nightlife. Agadir 33, Reykjavik 45: Reykjavik leads by 12 points.
Nature & outdoors. Agadir 65, Reykjavik 92: Reykjavik leads by 27 points.
Day trips. Agadir 38, Reykjavik 35: Agadir leads by 3 points.
Good for families. Agadir 58, Reykjavik 55: Agadir leads by 3 points.
Getting around. Agadir 45, Reykjavik 55: Reykjavik leads by 10 points.
Shopping & style. Agadir 38, Reykjavik 25: Agadir leads by 13 points.
Affordability. Agadir 70, Reykjavik 6: Agadir leads by 64 points.
Live music & performing arts. Agadir 18, Reykjavik 45: Reykjavik leads by 27 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Agadir 60, Reykjavik 88: Reykjavik leads by 28 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Agadir and Reykjavik.

Your match

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

Agadir
Best match
47match

Wins on prices and beaches with your weighting.

Reykjavik
44match

Wins on wellness and nature and the outdoors 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

Reykjavik in July

15 °Cdaytime high
9 °Cnight-time low
50 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
11 °Csea
20 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). Reykjavik: 1991-2020 normals, Reykjavik (2.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAgadirReykjavik
Official languageArabic, Standard Moroccan TamazightIcelandic
CurrencyMoroccan Dirham (MAD)Iceland Krona (ISK)
SocketsCE50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1UTC
Emergency numberPolice 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15112
Elevation74 m8 m
Main airportAl Massira Airport (AGA)20 km from centre75 non-stop destinationsKeflavik International Airport (KEF)37 km from centre88 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureAgadirReykjavik
City population538,000138,772
People per km²-569
Museums within 10 km123
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °CNoneNone

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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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.