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The cathedral from the Torre Tavira, Cadiz
CadizThe cathedral from the Torre Tavira
Playa Tamarindo, Tamarindo
TamarindoPlaya Tamarindo

Photos: Cadiz by Bronch, CC BY-SA 3.0 ES, cropped; Tamarindo by Jarle Naustvik, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Cadiz or Tamarindo?

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 Cadiz for

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

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

Choose Tamarindo for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • beaches
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Tamarindo’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. Cadiz 80, Tamarindo 85: Tamarindo leads by 5 points.
Food & drink. Cadiz 68, Tamarindo 38: Cadiz leads by 30 points.
Culture & sights. Cadiz 62, Tamarindo 5: Cadiz leads by 57 points.
Nightlife. Cadiz and Tamarindo are level on 45.
Nature & outdoors. Cadiz 66, Tamarindo 76: Tamarindo leads by 10 points.
Day trips. Cadiz 80, Tamarindo 28: Cadiz leads by 52 points.
Good for families. Cadiz 60, Tamarindo 55: Cadiz leads by 5 points.
Getting around. Cadiz 70, Tamarindo 32: Cadiz leads by 38 points.
Shopping & style. Cadiz 35, Tamarindo 18: Cadiz leads by 17 points.
Affordability. Cadiz 58, Tamarindo 36: Cadiz leads by 22 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cadiz 52, Tamarindo 10: Cadiz leads by 42 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cadiz 42, Tamarindo 45: Tamarindo leads by 3 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cadiz and Tamarindo.

Your match

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

Cadiz
Best match
60match

Wins on culture and sights and day trips with your weighting.

Tamarindo
39match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and beaches with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Cadiz in July

28 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
23 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Tamarindo in July

33 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
129 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
29 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Tamarindo's temperatures are measured 54 km from the centre, at Liberia.

Tamarindo 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. Cadiz: 1991-2020 normals, Cadiz Bay / Puntales (5.2 km from centre). Tamarindo: 1991-2020 normals, Liberia (53.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCadizTamarindo
Official languageSpanishSpanish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Costa Rican Colon (CRC)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-6
Emergency number112911
Elevation11 m27 m
Main airportJerez Airport (XRY)31 km from centre25 non-stop destinationsDaniel Oduber Quirós International Airport (LIR)43 km from centre30 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureCadizTamarindo
City population109,9507,132
People per km²9,08757
Museums within 10 km110
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 months12 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). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.