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The arch at the entrance to the boardwalk, Ocean City, Maryland
Ocean City, MarylandThe arch at the entrance to the boardwalk
The Cap Spartel lighthouse among palms, Tangier
TangierThe Cap Spartel lighthouse among palms

Photos: Ocean City, Maryland by Dough4872, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Tangier by Ideophagous, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Ocean City, Maryland 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 Ocean City, Maryland for

  • families
  • beaches
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Ocean City, Maryland’s own page.

Choose Tangier for

  • culture and sights
  • prices
  • day trips

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. Ocean City, Maryland 78, Tangier 50: Ocean City, Maryland leads by 28 points.
Food & drink. Ocean City, Maryland 40, Tangier 58: Tangier leads by 18 points.
Culture & sights. Ocean City, Maryland 14, Tangier 57: Tangier leads by 43 points.
Nightlife. Ocean City, Maryland 45, Tangier 30: Ocean City, Maryland leads by 15 points.
Nature & outdoors. Ocean City, Maryland 50, Tangier 55: Tangier leads by 5 points.
Day trips. Ocean City, Maryland 42, Tangier 72: Tangier leads by 30 points.
Good for families. Ocean City, Maryland 78, Tangier 35: Ocean City, Maryland leads by 43 points.
Getting around. Ocean City, Maryland 34, Tangier 40: Tangier leads by 6 points.
Shopping & style. Ocean City, Maryland 24, Tangier 42: Tangier leads by 18 points.
Affordability. Ocean City, Maryland 40, Tangier 76: Tangier leads by 36 points.
Live music & performing arts. Ocean City, Maryland 18, Tangier 28: Tangier leads by 10 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Ocean City, Maryland 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: Ocean City, Maryland and Tangier.

Your match

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

Ocean City, Maryland
40match

Wins on families and beaches with your weighting.

Tangier
Best match
49match

Wins on culture and sights and prices with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Ocean City, Maryland in July

29 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
96 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
24 °Csea
15 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

Ocean City, Maryland 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. Ocean City, Maryland: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Ocean City / Morris Mobile Home Park (10.2 km from centre). Tangier: 1991-2020 normals, Tanger Aerodrome (9.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureOcean City, MarylandTangier
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
Elevation2 m56 m
Main airportSalisbury Ocean City Wicomico Regional Airport (SBY)39 km from centre4 non-stop destinationsTangier Ibn Battuta Airport (TNG)11 km from centre50 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureOcean City, MarylandTangier
City population6,8441,275,428
People per km²736,393
Museums within 10 km06
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.