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The Texas State Capitol under a blue sky, Austin
AustinThe Texas State Capitol under a blue sky
The white medina above the harbour walls, Essaouira
EssaouiraThe white medina above the harbour walls

Photos: Austin by LoneStarMike, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Essaouira by Manel Cusido, Pexels License.

Austin or Essaouira?

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 Austin for

  • nightlife
  • live music and the arts
  • day trips

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

Choose Essaouira for

  • prices
  • getting around
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Essaouira’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. Austin 30, Essaouira 47: Essaouira leads by 17 points.
Food & drink. Austin 66, Essaouira 44: Austin leads by 22 points.
Culture & sights. Austin 40, Essaouira 48: Essaouira leads by 8 points.
Nightlife. Austin 65, Essaouira 14: Austin leads by 51 points.
Nature & outdoors. Austin and Essaouira are level on 57.
Day trips. Austin 58, Essaouira 17: Austin leads by 41 points.
Good for families. Austin 55, Essaouira 42: Austin leads by 13 points.
Getting around. Austin 30, Essaouira 58: Essaouira leads by 28 points.
Shopping & style. Austin 45, Essaouira 44: Austin leads by 1 points.
Affordability. Austin 33, Essaouira 74: Essaouira leads by 41 points.
Live music & performing arts. Austin 77, Essaouira 28: Austin leads by 49 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Austin 40, Essaouira 66: Essaouira leads by 26 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Austin and Essaouira.

Your match

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

Austin
Best match
50match

Wins on nightlife and live music and the arts with your weighting.

Essaouira
45match

Wins on prices 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.

Austin in July

36 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
49 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
No seasea
14 hdaylight a day

Essaouira in July

22 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
20 °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

Essaouira 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. Austin: 1991-2020 normals, Camp Mabry/Austin City Asos (3.7 km from centre). Essaouira: 1991-2020 normals, Essaouira (1.4 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAustinEssaouira
Official language-Arabic, Standard Moroccan Tamazight
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Moroccan Dirham (MAD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCE50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6, UTC-5 in summerUTC+1
Emergency number911Police 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15
Elevation149 m11 m
Main airportAustin Bergstrom International Airport (AUS)13 km from centre91 non-stop destinationsEssaouira-Mogador Airport (ESU)15 km from centre13 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureAustinEssaouira
City population961,85582,962
People per km²1,21716,592
Museums within 10 km212
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C-None

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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. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.