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The white medina above the harbour walls, Essaouira
EssaouiraThe white medina above the harbour walls
Lower Broadway and its honky-tonks, Nashville
NashvilleLower Broadway and its honky-tonks

Photos: Essaouira by Manel Cusido, Pexels License; Nashville by Warren LeMay, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Essaouira or Nashville?

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

  • wellness
  • prices
  • beaches

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

Choose Nashville for

  • nightlife
  • live music and the arts
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Nashville’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, Nashville 14: Essaouira leads by 33 points.
Food & drink. Essaouira 44, Nashville 62: Nashville leads by 18 points.
Culture & sights. Essaouira 48, Nashville 50: Nashville leads by 2 points.
Nightlife. Essaouira 14, Nashville 70: Nashville leads by 56 points.
Nature & outdoors. Essaouira 57, Nashville 46: Essaouira leads by 11 points.
Day trips. Essaouira 17, Nashville 52: Nashville leads by 35 points.
Good for families. Essaouira 42, Nashville 55: Nashville leads by 13 points.
Getting around. Essaouira 58, Nashville 30: Essaouira leads by 28 points.
Shopping & style. Essaouira 44, Nashville 42: Essaouira leads by 2 points.
Affordability. Essaouira 74, Nashville 30: Essaouira leads by 44 points.
Live music & performing arts. Essaouira 28, Nashville 82: Nashville leads by 54 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Essaouira 66, Nashville 20: Essaouira leads by 46 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Essaouira and Nashville.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Essaouira
45match

Wins on wellness and prices with your weighting.

Nashville
46match

Wins on nightlife and live music and the arts 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

Nashville in July

32 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
104 mmrain in the month
No seasea
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). Nashville: 1991-2020 normals, Nashville Airport (9.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureEssaouiraNashville
Official languageArabic, Standard Moroccan Tamazight-
CurrencyMoroccan Dirham (MAD)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCE50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1UTC-6, UTC-5 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15911
Elevation11 m182 m
Main airportEssaouira-Mogador Airport (ESU)15 km from centre13 non-stop destinationsNashville International Airport (BNA)10 km from centre122 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureEssaouiraNashville
City population82,962689,447
People per km²16,592506
Museums within 10 km212
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
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. 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.