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The white medina above the harbour walls, Essaouira
EssaouiraThe white medina above the harbour walls
The old town below the fortress, Salzburg
SalzburgThe old town below the fortress

Photos: Essaouira by Manel Cusido, Pexels License; Salzburg by Leonhard Niederwimmer, Pexels License.

Essaouira or Salzburg?

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
  • beaches
  • wellness

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

Choose Salzburg for

  • day trips
  • live music and the arts
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Salzburg’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, Salzburg 35: Essaouira leads by 12 points.
Food & drink. Essaouira 44, Salzburg 45: Salzburg leads by 1 points.
Culture & sights. Essaouira 48, Salzburg 72: Salzburg leads by 24 points.
Nightlife. Essaouira 14, Salzburg 25: Salzburg leads by 11 points.
Nature & outdoors. Essaouira 57, Salzburg 86: Salzburg leads by 29 points.
Day trips. Essaouira 17, Salzburg 80: Salzburg leads by 63 points.
Good for families. Essaouira 42, Salzburg 65: Salzburg leads by 23 points.
Getting around. Essaouira 58, Salzburg 72: Salzburg leads by 14 points.
Shopping & style. Essaouira 44, Salzburg 48: Salzburg leads by 4 points.
Affordability. Essaouira 74, Salzburg 32: Essaouira leads by 42 points.
Live music & performing arts. Essaouira 28, Salzburg 80: Salzburg leads by 52 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Essaouira 66, Salzburg 55: Essaouira leads by 11 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Essaouira and Salzburg.

Your match

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

Essaouira
45match

Wins on prices and beaches with your weighting.

Salzburg
Best match
58match

Wins on day trips 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
No recordsunshine a day
20 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Salzburg in July

25 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
159 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
No seasea
16 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). Salzburg: 1991-2020 normals, Salzburg (3.4 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureEssaouiraSalzburg
Official languageArabic, Standard Moroccan TamazightGerman, Austrian Sign Language
CurrencyMoroccan Dirham (MAD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15112
Elevation11 m424 m
Main airportEssaouira-Mogador Airport (ESU)15 km from centre13 non-stop destinationsSalzburg Airport (SZG)3 km from centre64 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureEssaouiraSalzburg
City population82,962155,021
People per km²16,5922,360
Museums within 10 km238
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km13
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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.