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The beach below the Kasbah hill and its inscription, Agadir
AgadirThe beach below the Kasbah hill and its inscription
The Arctic Cathedral, Tromso
TromsoThe Arctic Cathedral

Photos: Agadir by michiel1972, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Tromso by Moyan Brenn, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Agadir or Tromso?

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
  • prices
  • day trips

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

Choose Tromso for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • getting around
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Tromso’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, Tromso 8: Agadir leads by 64 points.
Food & drink. Agadir 50, Tromso 36: Agadir leads by 14 points.
Culture & sights. Agadir 22, Tromso 27: Tromso leads by 5 points.
Nightlife. Agadir 33, Tromso 38: Tromso leads by 5 points.
Nature & outdoors. Agadir 65, Tromso 92: Tromso leads by 27 points.
Day trips. Agadir 38, Tromso 14: Agadir leads by 24 points.
Good for families. Agadir 58, Tromso 45: Agadir leads by 13 points.
Getting around. Agadir 45, Tromso 60: Tromso leads by 15 points.
Shopping & style. Agadir 38, Tromso 15: Agadir leads by 23 points.
Affordability. Agadir 70, Tromso 11: Agadir leads by 59 points.
Live music & performing arts. Agadir 18, Tromso 32: Tromso leads by 14 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Agadir 60, Tromso 38: Agadir leads by 22 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Agadir and Tromso.

Your match

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

Agadir
Best match
47match

Wins on beaches and prices with your weighting.

Tromso
35match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and getting around 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

Tromso in July

16 °Cdaytime high
9 °Cnight-time low
73 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
10 °Csea
24 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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AgadirTromso

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). Tromso: 1991-2020 normals, Tromso (0.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAgadirTromso
Official languageArabic, Standard Moroccan TamazightNorwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, Sámi
CurrencyMoroccan Dirham (MAD)Norwegian Krone (NOK)
SocketsCE50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15Police 112, ambulance 113, fire 110
Elevation74 m20 m
Main airportAl Massira Airport (AGA)20 km from centre75 non-stop destinationsTromsø Airport (TOS)4 km from centre49 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureAgadirTromso
City population538,00079,943
People per km²-32
Museums within 10 km18
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
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. 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.