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The beach below the Kasbah hill and its inscription, Agadir
AgadirThe beach below the Kasbah hill and its inscription
A cobbled street of painted houses in Old San Juan, San Juan
San JuanA cobbled street of painted houses in Old San Juan

Photos: Agadir by michiel1972, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; San Juan by Mohan Nannapaneni, Pexels License.

Agadir or San Juan?

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
  • wellness
  • getting around

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

Choose San Juan for

  • culture and sights
  • nightlife
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on San Juan’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 Juan 84: San Juan leads by 12 points.
Food & drink. Agadir 50, San Juan 66: San Juan leads by 16 points.
Culture & sights. Agadir 22, San Juan 64: San Juan leads by 42 points.
Nightlife. Agadir 33, San Juan 70: San Juan leads by 37 points.
Nature & outdoors. Agadir 65, San Juan 74: San Juan leads by 9 points.
Day trips. Agadir 38, San Juan 52: San Juan leads by 14 points.
Good for families. Agadir and San Juan are level on 58.
Getting around. Agadir 45, San Juan 38: Agadir leads by 7 points.
Shopping & style. Agadir 38, San Juan 50: San Juan leads by 12 points.
Affordability. Agadir 70, San Juan 38: Agadir leads by 32 points.
Live music & performing arts. Agadir 18, San Juan 55: San Juan leads by 37 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Agadir 60, San Juan 40: Agadir leads by 20 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Agadir and San Juan.

Your match

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

Agadir
47match

Wins on prices and wellness with your weighting.

San Juan
Best match
57match

Wins on culture and sights and nightlife 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

San Juan in July

32 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
153 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
28 °Csea
13 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). San Juan: 1991-2020 normals, San Juan / Int., Puerto Rico (12.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAgadirSan Juan
Official languageArabic, Standard Moroccan TamazightSpanish, English
CurrencyMoroccan Dirham (MAD)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCE50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1UTC-4
Emergency numberPolice 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15911
Elevation74 m3 m
Main airportAl Massira Airport (AGA)20 km from centre75 non-stop destinationsLuis Munoz Marin International Airport (SJU)12 km from centre59 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days21 days

By the numbers

MeasureAgadirSan Juan
City population538,000342,259
People per km²-2,847
Museums within 10 km118
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
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. 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.