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The beach below the Kasbah hill and its inscription, Agadir
AgadirThe beach below the Kasbah hill and its inscription
A madrasa and its minarets on the Registan, Samarkand
SamarkandA madrasa and its minarets on the Registan

Photos: Agadir by michiel1972, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Samarkand by Yaşar Başkurt, Pexels License.

Agadir or Samarkand?

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
  • families
  • wellness

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

Choose Samarkand for

  • culture and sights
  • day trips
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Samarkand’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, Samarkand 4: Agadir leads by 68 points.
Food & drink. Agadir 50, Samarkand 54: Samarkand leads by 4 points.
Culture & sights. Agadir 22, Samarkand 84: Samarkand leads by 62 points.
Nightlife. Agadir 33, Samarkand 14: Agadir leads by 19 points.
Nature & outdoors. Agadir 65, Samarkand 40: Agadir leads by 25 points.
Day trips. Agadir 38, Samarkand 72: Samarkand leads by 34 points.
Good for families. Agadir 58, Samarkand 30: Agadir leads by 28 points.
Getting around. Agadir 45, Samarkand 58: Samarkand leads by 13 points.
Shopping & style. Agadir 38, Samarkand 42: Samarkand leads by 4 points.
Affordability. Agadir 70, Samarkand 80: Samarkand leads by 10 points.
Live music & performing arts. Agadir 18, Samarkand 24: Samarkand leads by 6 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Agadir 60, Samarkand 32: Agadir leads by 28 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Agadir and Samarkand.

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 beaches and families with your weighting.

Samarkand
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
No recordsunshine a day
19 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Samarkand in July

34 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
2 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
No seasea
15 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). Samarkand: 1991-2020 normals, Samarkand (10 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAgadirSamarkand
Official languageArabic, Standard Moroccan TamazightUzbek
CurrencyMoroccan Dirham (MAD)Uzbekistan Sum (UZS)
SocketsCE50 HzCFI220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1UTC+5
Emergency numberPolice 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15112
Elevation74 m702 m
Main airportAl Massira Airport (AGA)20 km from centre75 non-stop destinationsSamarkand International Airport (SKD)5 km from centre29 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days-

By the numbers

MeasureAgadirSamarkand
City population538,000546,303
People per km²-5,058
Museums within 10 km111
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone-

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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.