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The beach below the Kasbah hill and its inscription, Agadir
AgadirThe beach below the Kasbah hill and its inscription
Valletta from the water, Valletta
VallettaValletta from the water

Photos: Agadir by michiel1972, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Valletta by Pho Tomass, Pexels License.

Agadir or Valletta?

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
  • prices
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Valletta for

  • culture and sights
  • day trips
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Valletta’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, Valletta 68: Agadir leads by 4 points.
Food & drink. Agadir 50, Valletta 55: Valletta leads by 5 points.
Culture & sights. Agadir 22, Valletta 76: Valletta leads by 54 points.
Nightlife. Agadir 33, Valletta 46: Valletta leads by 13 points.
Nature & outdoors. Agadir 65, Valletta 56: Agadir leads by 9 points.
Day trips. Agadir 38, Valletta 76: Valletta leads by 38 points.
Good for families. Agadir and Valletta are level on 58.
Getting around. Agadir 45, Valletta 62: Valletta leads by 17 points.
Shopping & style. Agadir and Valletta are level on 38.
Affordability. Agadir 70, Valletta 50: Agadir leads by 20 points.
Live music & performing arts. Agadir 18, Valletta 44: Valletta leads by 26 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Agadir 60, Valletta 32: Agadir leads by 28 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Agadir and Valletta.

Your match

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

Agadir
47match

Wins on wellness and prices with your weighting.

Valletta
Best match
55match

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

Valletta in July

32 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
25 °Csea
14 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). Valletta: 1991-2020 normals, Luqa (5.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAgadirValletta
Official languageArabic, Standard Moroccan TamazightEnglish, Maltese
CurrencyMoroccan Dirham (MAD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15112
Elevation74 m56 m
Main airportAl Massira Airport (AGA)20 km from centre75 non-stop destinationsMalta International Airport (MLA)6 km from centre113 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureAgadirValletta
City population538,0005,197
People per km²-6,496
Museums within 10 km116
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone6 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. 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.