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The Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco
San FranciscoThe Golden Gate Bridge
The Cap Spartel lighthouse among palms, Tangier
TangierThe Cap Spartel lighthouse among palms

Photos: San Francisco by Elijah Cobb, Pexels License; Tangier by Ideophagous, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

San Francisco 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 Francisco for

  • live music and the arts
  • families
  • getting around

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

Choose Tangier for

  • prices
  • beaches
  • wellness

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 Francisco 25, Tangier 50: Tangier leads by 25 points.
Food & drink. San Francisco 82, Tangier 58: San Francisco leads by 24 points.
Culture & sights. San Francisco 68, Tangier 57: San Francisco leads by 11 points.
Nightlife. San Francisco 58, Tangier 30: San Francisco leads by 28 points.
Nature & outdoors. San Francisco 80, Tangier 55: San Francisco leads by 25 points.
Day trips. San Francisco and Tangier are level on 72.
Good for families. San Francisco 66, Tangier 35: San Francisco leads by 31 points.
Getting around. San Francisco 70, Tangier 40: San Francisco leads by 30 points.
Shopping & style. San Francisco 58, Tangier 42: San Francisco leads by 16 points.
Affordability. San Francisco 14, Tangier 76: Tangier leads by 62 points.
Live music & performing arts. San Francisco 76, Tangier 28: San Francisco leads by 48 points.
Wellness & relaxation. San Francisco 42, Tangier 50: Tangier leads by 8 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: San Francisco and Tangier.

Your match

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

San Francisco
Best match
59match

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

Tangier
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.

San Francisco in July

22 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
13 °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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San FranciscoTangier

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. San Francisco: 1981-2010 normals, Alameda Naval Air Station (9.1 km from centre). Tangier: 1991-2020 normals, Tanger Aerodrome (9.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureSan FranciscoTangier
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
Elevation16 m56 m
Main airportSan Francisco International Airport (SFO)18 km from centre142 non-stop destinationsTangier Ibn Battuta Airport (TNG)11 km from centre50 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureSan FranciscoTangier
City population873,9651,275,428
People per km²1,4556,393
Museums within 10 km516
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone3 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.