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The beach below the Kasbah hill and its inscription, Agadir
AgadirThe beach below the Kasbah hill and its inscription
São Paulo Cathedral, Sao Paulo
Sao PauloSão Paulo Cathedral

Photos: Agadir by michiel1972, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Sao Paulo by Webysther Nunes, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Agadir or Sao Paulo?

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

  • wellness
  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Sao Paulo for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Sao Paulo’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, Sao Paulo 42: Agadir leads by 30 points.
Food & drink. Agadir 50, Sao Paulo 84: Sao Paulo leads by 34 points.
Culture & sights. Agadir 22, Sao Paulo 60: Sao Paulo leads by 38 points.
Nightlife. Agadir 33, Sao Paulo 86: Sao Paulo leads by 53 points.
Nature & outdoors. Agadir 65, Sao Paulo 48: Agadir leads by 17 points.
Day trips. Agadir 38, Sao Paulo 47: Sao Paulo leads by 9 points.
Good for families. Agadir 58, Sao Paulo 52: Agadir leads by 6 points.
Getting around. Agadir 45, Sao Paulo 44: Agadir leads by 1 points.
Shopping & style. Agadir 38, Sao Paulo 70: Sao Paulo leads by 32 points.
Affordability. Agadir 70, Sao Paulo 62: Agadir leads by 8 points.
Live music & performing arts. Agadir 18, Sao Paulo 76: Sao Paulo leads by 58 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Agadir 60, Sao Paulo 25: Agadir leads by 35 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Agadir and Sao Paulo.

Your match

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

Agadir
47match

Wins on wellness and beaches with your weighting.

Sao Paulo
Best match
58match

Wins on live music and the arts 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

Sao Paulo in July

23 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
53 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
No seasea
11 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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AgadirSao Paulo

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). Sao Paulo: 1991-2020 normals, Sao Paulo (5.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAgadirSao Paulo
Official languageArabic, Standard Moroccan TamazightPortuguese
CurrencyMoroccan Dirham (MAD)Brazilian Real (BRL)
SocketsCE50 HzCN60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1UTC-3
Emergency numberPolice 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15Police 190, ambulance 192, fire 193
Elevation74 m760 m
Main airportAl Massira Airport (AGA)20 km from centre75 non-stop destinationsSão Paulo/Guarulhos–Governor André Franco Montoro International Airport (GRU)21 km from centre104 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureAgadirSao Paulo
City population538,00011,451,999
People per km²-7,519
Museums within 10 km190
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. 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.