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The beach below the Kasbah hill and its inscription, Agadir
AgadirThe beach below the Kasbah hill and its inscription
Angkor Wat beyond the palms of the causeway, Siem Reap
Siem ReapAngkor Wat beyond the palms of the causeway

Photos: Agadir by michiel1972, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Siem Reap by allPhoto Bangkok, Pexels License.

Agadir or Siem Reap?

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
  • nature and the outdoors
  • families

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

Choose Siem Reap for

  • culture and sights
  • prices
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Siem Reap’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, Siem Reap 5: Agadir leads by 67 points.
Food & drink. Agadir 50, Siem Reap 45: Agadir leads by 5 points.
Culture & sights. Agadir 22, Siem Reap 88: Siem Reap leads by 66 points.
Nightlife. Agadir 33, Siem Reap 42: Siem Reap leads by 9 points.
Nature & outdoors. Agadir 65, Siem Reap 40: Agadir leads by 25 points.
Day trips. Agadir 38, Siem Reap 55: Siem Reap leads by 17 points.
Good for families. Agadir 58, Siem Reap 35: Agadir leads by 23 points.
Getting around. Agadir 45, Siem Reap 30: Agadir leads by 15 points.
Shopping & style. Agadir and Siem Reap are level on 38.
Affordability. Agadir 70, Siem Reap 88: Siem Reap leads by 18 points.
Live music & performing arts. Agadir 18, Siem Reap 32: Siem Reap leads by 14 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Agadir and Siem Reap are level on 60.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Agadir and Siem Reap.

Your match

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

Too close to call, level with your weighting

Agadir
47match

Wins on beaches and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Siem Reap
47match

Wins on culture and sights and prices 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

Siem Reap in July

30 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
197 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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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.

Siem Reap has no weather station within reach, so its figures come from a gridded climate model rather than a measured record, and read a broad area rather than the city itself.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Agadir: 1945-2025 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Agadir (4.5 km from centre). Siem Reap: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureAgadirSiem Reap
Official languageArabic, Standard Moroccan TamazightKhmer
CurrencyMoroccan Dirham (MAD)Riel (KHR)
SocketsCE50 HzACG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1UTC+7
Emergency numberPolice 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15Police 117, ambulance 119, fire 118
Elevation74 m18 m
Main airportAl Massira Airport (AGA)20 km from centre75 non-stop destinationsSiem Reap-Angkor International Airport (SAI)39 km from centre14 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days21 days

By the numbers

MeasureAgadirSiem Reap
City population538,000147,866
Museums within 10 km16
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
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. Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. 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.