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A classic car in front of the Capitolio, Havana
HavanaA classic car in front of the Capitolio
The Cap Spartel lighthouse among palms, Tangier
TangierThe Cap Spartel lighthouse among palms

Photos: Havana by AXP Photography, Pexels License; Tangier by Ideophagous, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Havana or Tangier?

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 Havana for

  • live music and the arts
  • nightlife
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Tangier for

  • day trips
  • wellness
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Tangier’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. Havana 64, Tangier 50: Havana leads by 14 points.
Food & drink. Havana 40, Tangier 58: Tangier leads by 18 points.
Culture & sights. Havana 77, Tangier 57: Havana leads by 20 points.
Nightlife. Havana 60, Tangier 30: Havana leads by 30 points.
Nature & outdoors. Havana 34, Tangier 55: Tangier leads by 21 points.
Day trips. Havana 38, Tangier 72: Tangier leads by 34 points.
Good for families. Havana 34, Tangier 35: Tangier leads by 1 points.
Getting around. Havana 38, Tangier 40: Tangier leads by 2 points.
Shopping & style. Havana 30, Tangier 42: Tangier leads by 12 points.
Affordability. Havana 58, Tangier 76: Tangier leads by 18 points.
Live music & performing arts. Havana 74, Tangier 28: Havana leads by 46 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Havana 22, Tangier 50: Tangier leads by 28 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Havana and Tangier.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Havana
47match

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

Tangier
49match

Wins on day trips and wellness with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Havana in July

32 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
118 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
29 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Tangier in July

29 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
22 °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

Havana 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. Havana: 1991-2020 normals, Casa Blanca, La Habana (3.5 km from centre). Tangier: 1991-2020 normals, Tanger Aerodrome (9.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureHavanaTangier
Official languageSpanishArabic, Standard Moroccan Tamazight
CurrencyCuban Peso (CUP)Moroccan Dirham (MAD)
SocketsAB110 V, 60 HzCE50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+1
Emergency numberPolice 106, ambulance 104, fire 105Police 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15
Elevation59 m56 m
Main airportJosé Martí International Airport (HAV)17 km from centre21 non-stop destinationsTangier Ibn Battuta Airport (TNG)11 km from centre50 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureHavanaTangier
City population2,492,6181,275,428
People per km²3,4236,393
Museums within 10 km126
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months3 months

Where else could you go?

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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). Time zones from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0); clock offsets computed from the IANA time zone database. Price level from World Bank open data (PPP conversion factor for private consumption and official exchange rate), 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.