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The white medina above the harbour walls, Essaouira
EssaouiraThe white medina above the harbour walls
Castelvecchio and Ponte Scaligero over the Adige, Verona
VeronaCastelvecchio and Ponte Scaligero over the Adige

Photos: Essaouira by Manel Cusido, Pexels License; Verona by NorbertNagel, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Essaouira or Verona?

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
  • wellness
  • beaches

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

Choose Verona for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Verona’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, Verona 44: Essaouira leads by 3 points.
Food & drink. Essaouira 44, Verona 66: Verona leads by 22 points.
Culture & sights. Essaouira 48, Verona 76: Verona leads by 28 points.
Nightlife. Essaouira 14, Verona 37: Verona leads by 23 points.
Nature & outdoors. Essaouira 57, Verona 65: Verona leads by 8 points.
Day trips. Essaouira 17, Verona 92: Verona leads by 75 points.
Good for families. Essaouira 42, Verona 66: Verona leads by 24 points.
Getting around. Essaouira 58, Verona 68: Verona leads by 10 points.
Shopping & style. Essaouira 44, Verona 52: Verona leads by 8 points.
Affordability. Essaouira 74, Verona 46: Essaouira leads by 28 points.
Live music & performing arts. Essaouira 28, Verona 66: Verona leads by 38 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Essaouira 66, Verona 48: Essaouira leads by 18 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Essaouira and Verona.

Your match

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

Essaouira
45match

Wins on prices and wellness with your weighting.

Verona
Best match
61match

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

Verona in July

30 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
62 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
No seasea
15 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). Verona: 1991-2020 normals, Verona / Villafranca (11.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureEssaouiraVerona
Official languageArabic, Standard Moroccan TamazightItalian
CurrencyMoroccan Dirham (MAD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15112
Elevation11 m59 m
Main airportEssaouira-Mogador Airport (ESU)15 km from centre13 non-stop destinationsVerona Villafranca Valerio Catullo Airport (VRN)10 km from centre96 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureEssaouiraVerona
City population82,962255,588
People per km²16,5921,285
Museums within 10 km218
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km15
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.