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The beach below the Kasbah hill and its inscription, Agadir
AgadirThe beach below the Kasbah hill and its inscription
The Metropolitan Cathedral of San Jose, San Jose, Costa Rica
San Jose, Costa RicaThe Metropolitan Cathedral of San Jose

Photos: Agadir by michiel1972, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; San Jose, Costa Rica by Bernard Gagnon, CC0.

Agadir or San Jose, Costa Rica?

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
  • wellness
  • prices

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

Choose San Jose, Costa Rica for

  • live music and the arts
  • culture and sights
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on San Jose, Costa Rica’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, San Jose, Costa Rica 12: Agadir leads by 60 points.
Food & drink. Agadir 50, San Jose, Costa Rica 42: Agadir leads by 8 points.
Culture & sights. Agadir 22, San Jose, Costa Rica 38: San Jose, Costa Rica leads by 16 points.
Nightlife. Agadir 33, San Jose, Costa Rica 40: San Jose, Costa Rica leads by 7 points.
Nature & outdoors. Agadir 65, San Jose, Costa Rica 78: San Jose, Costa Rica leads by 13 points.
Day trips. Agadir 38, San Jose, Costa Rica 52: San Jose, Costa Rica leads by 14 points.
Good for families. Agadir 58, San Jose, Costa Rica 44: Agadir leads by 14 points.
Getting around. Agadir 45, San Jose, Costa Rica 30: Agadir leads by 15 points.
Shopping & style. Agadir 38, San Jose, Costa Rica 36: Agadir leads by 2 points.
Affordability. Agadir 70, San Jose, Costa Rica 54: Agadir leads by 16 points.
Live music & performing arts. Agadir 18, San Jose, Costa Rica 38: San Jose, Costa Rica leads by 20 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Agadir 60, San Jose, Costa Rica 28: Agadir leads by 32 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Agadir and San Jose, Costa Rica.

Your match

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

Agadir
Best match
47match

Wins on beaches and wellness with your weighting.

San Jose, Costa Rica
41match

Wins on live music and the arts and culture and sights 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

San Jose, Costa Rica in July

28 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
173 mmrain in the month
No seasea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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AgadirSan Jose, Costa Rica

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.

San Jose, Costa Rica's station stands 241 m below the city centre, so the centre is likely a little cooler than the figures say.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Agadir: 1945-2025 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Agadir (4.5 km from centre). San Jose, Costa Rica: 1991-2020 normals, Juan Santamaria (16.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAgadirSan Jose, Costa Rica
Official languageArabic, Standard Moroccan TamazightSpanish
CurrencyMoroccan Dirham (MAD)Costa Rican Colon (CRC)
SocketsCE50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1UTC-6
Emergency numberPolice 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15911
Elevation74 m1,161 m
Main airportAl Massira Airport (AGA)20 km from centre75 non-stop destinationsJuan Santamaría International Airport (SJO)16 km from centre49 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureAgadirSan Jose, Costa Rica
City population538,000335,007
People per km²-7,511
Museums within 10 km19
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
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.