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The Botanical Building, Balboa Park, San Diego
San DiegoThe Botanical Building, Balboa Park
The Cap Spartel lighthouse among palms, Tangier
TangierThe Cap Spartel lighthouse among palms

Photos: San Diego by Bernard Gagnon, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Tangier by Ideophagous, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

San Diego 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 San Diego for

  • families
  • live music and the arts
  • beaches

What lies behind each score is written up on San Diego’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. San Diego 72, Tangier 50: San Diego leads by 22 points.
Food & drink. San Diego 62, Tangier 58: San Diego leads by 4 points.
Culture & sights. San Diego 50, Tangier 57: Tangier leads by 7 points.
Nightlife. San Diego 48, Tangier 30: San Diego leads by 18 points.
Nature & outdoors. San Diego 77, Tangier 55: San Diego leads by 22 points.
Day trips. San Diego 60, Tangier 72: Tangier leads by 12 points.
Good for families. San Diego 96, Tangier 35: San Diego leads by 61 points.
Getting around. San Diego 38, Tangier 40: Tangier leads by 2 points.
Shopping & style. San Diego 44, Tangier 42: San Diego leads by 2 points.
Affordability. San Diego 26, Tangier 76: Tangier leads by 50 points.
Live music & performing arts. San Diego 56, Tangier 28: San Diego leads by 28 points.
Wellness & relaxation. San Diego 45, Tangier 50: Tangier leads by 5 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: San Diego and Tangier.

Your match

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

San Diego
Best match
56match

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

Tangier
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.

San Diego in July

24 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
2 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
20 °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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Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. San Diego: 1991-2020 normals, San Diego International Airport (2.8 km from centre). Tangier: 1991-2020 normals, Tanger Aerodrome (9.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureSan DiegoTangier
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
Elevation129 m56 m
Main airportSan Diego International Airport (SAN)3 km from centre87 non-stop destinationsTangier Ibn Battuta Airport (TNG)11 km from centre50 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureSan DiegoTangier
City population1,386,9321,275,428
People per km²1,4386,393
Museums within 10 km266
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C1 month3 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.