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The beach below the Kasbah hill and its inscription, Agadir
AgadirThe beach below the Kasbah hill and its inscription
The Christuskirche among palms, Windhoek
WindhoekThe Christuskirche among palms

Photos: Agadir by michiel1972, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Windhoek by Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Agadir or Windhoek?

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
  • wellness
  • families

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

Choose Windhoek for

  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on Windhoek’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, Windhoek 4: Agadir leads by 68 points.
Food & drink. Agadir 50, Windhoek 36: Agadir leads by 14 points.
Culture & sights. Agadir 22, Windhoek 30: Windhoek leads by 8 points.
Nightlife. Agadir 33, Windhoek 25: Agadir leads by 8 points.
Nature & outdoors. Agadir 65, Windhoek 52: Agadir leads by 13 points.
Day trips. Agadir 38, Windhoek 14: Agadir leads by 24 points.
Good for families. Agadir 58, Windhoek 30: Agadir leads by 28 points.
Getting around. Agadir 45, Windhoek 22: Agadir leads by 23 points.
Shopping & style. Agadir 38, Windhoek 30: Agadir leads by 8 points.
Affordability. Agadir 70, Windhoek 62: Agadir leads by 8 points.
Live music & performing arts. Agadir and Windhoek are level on 18.
Wellness & relaxation. Agadir 60, Windhoek 30: Agadir leads by 30 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Agadir and Windhoek.

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 wellness with your weighting.

Windhoek
29match

Wins on culture and sights 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

Windhoek in July

22 °Cdaytime high
7 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
No seasea
11 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). Windhoek: 1991-2020 normals, Windhoek (1.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAgadirWindhoek
Official languageArabic, Standard Moroccan TamazightEnglish
CurrencyMoroccan Dirham (MAD)Namibia Dollar (NAD)
SocketsCE50 HzM220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1UTC+2
Emergency numberPolice 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15112
Elevation74 m1,650 m
Main airportAl Massira Airport (AGA)20 km from centre75 non-stop destinationsHosea Kutako International Airport (WDH)41 km from centre16 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureAgadirWindhoek
City population538,000486,169
People per km²-95
Museums within 10 km15
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. 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.