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The white medina above the harbour walls, Essaouira
EssaouiraThe white medina above the harbour walls
The Ferris wheel on Santa Monica Pier, Los Angeles
Los AngelesThe Ferris wheel on Santa Monica Pier

Photos: Essaouira by Manel Cusido, Pexels License; Los Angeles by Domenico Convertini, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Essaouira or Los Angeles?

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 Essaouira for

  • prices
  • getting around
  • wellness

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

Choose Los Angeles for

  • live music and the arts
  • nightlife
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Los Angeles’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. Essaouira 47, Los Angeles 60: Los Angeles leads by 13 points.
Food & drink. Essaouira 44, Los Angeles 84: Los Angeles leads by 40 points.
Culture & sights. Essaouira 48, Los Angeles 66: Los Angeles leads by 18 points.
Nightlife. Essaouira 14, Los Angeles 67: Los Angeles leads by 53 points.
Nature & outdoors. Essaouira 57, Los Angeles 80: Los Angeles leads by 23 points.
Day trips. Essaouira 17, Los Angeles 60: Los Angeles leads by 43 points.
Good for families. Essaouira 42, Los Angeles 84: Los Angeles leads by 42 points.
Getting around. Essaouira 58, Los Angeles 25: Essaouira leads by 33 points.
Shopping & style. Essaouira 44, Los Angeles 80: Los Angeles leads by 36 points.
Affordability. Essaouira 74, Los Angeles 24: Essaouira leads by 50 points.
Live music & performing arts. Essaouira 28, Los Angeles 83: Los Angeles leads by 55 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Essaouira 66, Los Angeles 60: Essaouira leads by 6 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Essaouira and Los Angeles.

Your match

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

Essaouira
45match

Wins on prices and getting around with your weighting.

Los Angeles
Best match
64match

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

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Essaouira in July

22 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
20 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Los Angeles in July

24 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
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. Essaouira: 1991-2020 normals, Essaouira (1.4 km from centre). Los Angeles: 1991-2020 normals, Los Angeles Airport (18.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureEssaouiraLos Angeles
Official languageArabic, Standard Moroccan Tamazight-
CurrencyMoroccan Dirham (MAD)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCE50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1UTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15911
Elevation11 m106 m
Main airportEssaouira-Mogador Airport (ESU)15 km from centre13 non-stop destinationsLos Angeles International Airport (LAX)19 km from centre177 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureEssaouiraLos Angeles
City population82,9623,898,747
People per km²16,5922,994
Museums within 10 km239
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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.