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Palm Springs
The Cap Spartel lighthouse among palms, Tangier
TangierThe Cap Spartel lighthouse among palms

Photos: Tangier by Ideophagous, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Palm Springs 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 Palm Springs for

  • wellness
  • nature and the outdoors
  • live music and the arts

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

Choose Tangier for

  • prices
  • beaches
  • 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. Palm Springs 7, Tangier 50: Tangier leads by 43 points.
Food & drink. Palm Springs 40, Tangier 58: Tangier leads by 18 points.
Culture & sights. Palm Springs 42, Tangier 57: Tangier leads by 15 points.
Nightlife. Palm Springs 36, Tangier 30: Palm Springs leads by 6 points.
Nature & outdoors. Palm Springs 78, Tangier 55: Palm Springs leads by 23 points.
Day trips. Palm Springs 38, Tangier 72: Tangier leads by 34 points.
Good for families. Palm Springs 40, Tangier 35: Palm Springs leads by 5 points.
Getting around. Palm Springs 22, Tangier 40: Tangier leads by 18 points.
Shopping & style. Palm Springs 44, Tangier 42: Palm Springs leads by 2 points.
Affordability. Palm Springs 32, Tangier 76: Tangier leads by 44 points.
Live music & performing arts. Palm Springs 40, Tangier 28: Palm Springs leads by 12 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Palm Springs 80, Tangier 50: Palm Springs leads by 30 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Palm Springs and Tangier.

Your match

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

Palm Springs
42match

Wins on wellness and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Tangier
Best match
49match

Wins on prices and beaches with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Palm Springs in July

42 °Cdaytime high
28 °Cnight-time low
5 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
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

Palm Springs 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. Palm Springs: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Palm Springs (2.3 km from centre). Tangier: 1991-2020 normals, Tanger Aerodrome (9.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePalm SpringsTangier
Official language-Arabic, Standard Moroccan Tamazight
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Moroccan Dirham (MAD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCE50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-8, UTC-7 in summerUTC+1
Emergency number911Police 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15
Elevation146 m56 m
Main airportPalm Springs International Airport (PSP)2 km from centre29 non-stop destinationsTangier Ibn Battuta Airport (TNG)11 km from centre50 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasurePalm SpringsTangier
City population44,5751,275,428
People per km²1816,393
Museums within 10 km36
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C-3 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. 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.