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The beach below the Kasbah hill and its inscription, Agadir
AgadirThe beach below the Kasbah hill and its inscription
The cathedral above the old town, Santiago de Compostela
Santiago de CompostelaThe cathedral above the old town

Photos: Agadir by michiel1972, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Santiago de Compostela by Luis Miguel Bugallo Sánchez (Lmbuga), CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Agadir or Santiago de Compostela?

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
  • families

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

Choose Santiago de Compostela for

  • culture and sights
  • day trips
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Santiago de Compostela’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, Santiago de Compostela 32: Agadir leads by 40 points.
Food & drink. Agadir 50, Santiago de Compostela 68: Santiago de Compostela leads by 18 points.
Culture & sights. Agadir 22, Santiago de Compostela 70: Santiago de Compostela leads by 48 points.
Nightlife. Agadir 33, Santiago de Compostela 45: Santiago de Compostela leads by 12 points.
Nature & outdoors. Agadir 65, Santiago de Compostela 62: Agadir leads by 3 points.
Day trips. Agadir 38, Santiago de Compostela 72: Santiago de Compostela leads by 34 points.
Good for families. Agadir 58, Santiago de Compostela 42: Agadir leads by 16 points.
Getting around. Agadir 45, Santiago de Compostela 70: Santiago de Compostela leads by 25 points.
Shopping & style. Agadir 38, Santiago de Compostela 35: Agadir leads by 3 points.
Affordability. Agadir 70, Santiago de Compostela 64: Agadir leads by 6 points.
Live music & performing arts. Agadir 18, Santiago de Compostela 40: Santiago de Compostela leads by 22 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Agadir 60, Santiago de Compostela 42: Agadir leads by 18 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Agadir and Santiago de Compostela.

Your match

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

Agadir
47match

Wins on beaches and wellness with your weighting.

Santiago de Compostela
Best match
54match

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

Santiago de Compostela in July

25 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
41 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
17 °Csea
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). Santiago de Compostela: 1991-2020 normals, Santiago / Labacolla (8.4 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAgadirSantiago de Compostela
Official languageArabic, Standard Moroccan TamazightSpanish
CurrencyMoroccan Dirham (MAD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15112
Elevation74 m260 m
Main airportAl Massira Airport (AGA)20 km from centre75 non-stop destinationsSantiago-Rosalía de Castro Airport (SCQ)10 km from centre29 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureAgadirSantiago de Compostela
City population538,000100,965
People per km²-459
Museums within 10 km16
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
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. 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.