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The beach below the Kasbah hill and its inscription, Agadir
AgadirThe beach below the Kasbah hill and its inscription
A painted funicular on the hillside, Valparaiso
ValparaisoA painted funicular on the hillside

Photos: Agadir by michiel1972, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Valparaiso by Maclemo, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Agadir or Valparaiso?

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
  • families

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

Choose Valparaiso for

  • culture and sights
  • day trips
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Valparaiso’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, Valparaiso 36: Agadir leads by 36 points.
Food & drink. Agadir and Valparaiso are level on 50.
Culture & sights. Agadir 22, Valparaiso 62: Valparaiso leads by 40 points.
Nightlife. Agadir 33, Valparaiso 56: Valparaiso leads by 23 points.
Nature & outdoors. Agadir 65, Valparaiso 60: Agadir leads by 5 points.
Day trips. Agadir 38, Valparaiso 63: Valparaiso leads by 25 points.
Good for families. Agadir 58, Valparaiso 33: Agadir leads by 25 points.
Getting around. Agadir 45, Valparaiso 44: Agadir leads by 1 points.
Shopping & style. Agadir 38, Valparaiso 30: Agadir leads by 8 points.
Affordability. Agadir 70, Valparaiso 60: Agadir leads by 10 points.
Live music & performing arts. Agadir 18, Valparaiso 38: Valparaiso leads by 20 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Agadir 60, Valparaiso 18: Agadir leads by 42 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Agadir and Valparaiso.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Agadir
47match

Wins on wellness and beaches with your weighting.

Valparaiso
46match

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
19 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Valparaiso in July

15 °Cdaytime high
7 °Cnight-time low
71 mmrain in the month
13 °Csea
10 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.

Valparaiso 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). Valparaiso: 2010-2025 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Viña Del Mar / Montemar (17 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAgadirValparaiso
Official languageArabic, Standard Moroccan TamazightSpanish
CurrencyMoroccan Dirham (MAD)Chilean Peso (CLP)
SocketsCE50 HzCL220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1UTC-4, UTC-3 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15Police 133/134, ambulance 131, fire 132
Elevation74 m21 m
Main airportAl Massira Airport (AGA)20 km from centre75 non-stop destinationsComodoro Arturo Merino Benítez International Airport (SCL)87 km from centre67 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureAgadirValparaiso
City population538,000296,655
People per km²-6,180
Museums within 10 km117
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
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. 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.