Photos: Agadir by michiel1972, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; San Jose by Roxanna Salceda, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.
Agadir or San Jose?
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
- wellness
What lies behind each score is written up on Agadir’s own page.
Choose San Jose for
- day trips
- live music and the arts
- culture and sights
What lies behind each score is written up on San Jose’s own page.
Scoreboard
Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.
What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Agadir and San Jose.
Your match
Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.
Too close to call, 2 points apart
Wins on prices and beaches with your weighting.
Wins on day trips and live music and the arts 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
San Jose in July
Daytime high, °C
Rainfall in the month, mm
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). San Jose: 1991-2020 normals, San Jose / Santa Clara Trailer Village (8.2 km from centre).
Before you go
| Measure | Agadir | San Jose |
|---|---|---|
| Official language | Arabic, Standard Moroccan Tamazight | - |
| Currency | Moroccan Dirham (MAD) | US Dollar (USD) |
| Sockets | CE50 Hz | AB120 V, 60 Hz |
| Driving side | Right | Right |
| Time zone | UTC+1 | UTC-8, UTC-7 in summer |
| Emergency number | Police 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15 | 911 |
| Elevation | 74 m | 25 m |
| Main airport | Al Massira Airport (AGA)20 km from centre75 non-stop destinations | Mineta San Jose International Airport (SJC)8 km from centre38 non-stop destinations |
| Public holidays this year | 11 days | 13 days |
By the numbers
| Measure | Agadir | San Jose |
|---|---|---|
| City population | 538,000 | 1,013,240 |
| People per km² | - | 2,167 |
| Museums within 10 km | 1 | 19 |
| UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km | 0 | 0 |
| Swim season, months above 21 °C | None | None |
Where else could you go?
Every comparison below shares a destination with this one, so you can follow Agadir or San Jose somewhere new.