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Painted wooden houses under palms in Key West, Key West
Key WestPainted wooden houses under palms in Key West
The Cap Spartel lighthouse among palms, Tangier
TangierThe Cap Spartel lighthouse among palms

Photos: Key West by Dominik Gryzbon, Pexels License; Tangier by Ideophagous, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Key West 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 Key West for

  • nightlife
  • getting around
  • beaches

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

Choose Tangier for

  • prices
  • day trips
  • culture and sights

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. Key West 60, Tangier 50: Key West leads by 10 points.
Food & drink. Key West 45, Tangier 58: Tangier leads by 13 points.
Culture & sights. Key West 40, Tangier 57: Tangier leads by 17 points.
Nightlife. Key West 62, Tangier 30: Key West leads by 32 points.
Nature & outdoors. Key West 62, Tangier 55: Key West leads by 7 points.
Day trips. Key West 28, Tangier 72: Tangier leads by 44 points.
Good for families. Key West 40, Tangier 35: Key West leads by 5 points.
Getting around. Key West 62, Tangier 40: Key West leads by 22 points.
Shopping & style. Key West 30, Tangier 42: Tangier leads by 12 points.
Affordability. Key West 15, Tangier 76: Tangier leads by 61 points.
Live music & performing arts. Key West 38, Tangier 28: Key West leads by 10 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Key West 40, Tangier 50: Tangier leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Key West and Tangier.

Your match

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

Key West
44match

Wins on nightlife and getting around with your weighting.

Tangier
Best match
49match

Wins on prices and day trips with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Key West in July

32 °Cdaytime high
27 °Cnight-time low
84 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
30 °Csea
14 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

Key West's temperatures are measured 69 km from the centre, at Key West Airport.

Key West 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. Key West: 1991-2020 normals, Key West Airport (69.1 km from centre). Tangier: 1991-2020 normals, Tanger Aerodrome (9.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureKey WestTangier
Official language-Arabic, Standard Moroccan Tamazight
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Moroccan Dirham (MAD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCE50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+1
Emergency number911Police 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15
Elevation4 m56 m
Main airportKey West International Airport (EYW)2 km from centre24 non-stop destinationsTangier Ibn Battuta Airport (TNG)11 km from centre50 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureKey WestTangier
City population26,4441,275,428
People per km²1,4076,393
Museums within 10 km76
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months3 months

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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). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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. 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.