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The pink Don CeSar hotel seen from the beach, St. Pete Beach
St. Pete BeachThe pink Don CeSar hotel seen from the beach
The Cap Spartel lighthouse among palms, Tangier
TangierThe Cap Spartel lighthouse among palms

Photos: St. Pete Beach by Jeffrey Eisen, Pexels License; Tangier by Ideophagous, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

St. Pete Beach 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 St. Pete Beach for

  • beaches
  • families
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on St. Pete Beach’s own page.

Choose Tangier for

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • shopping

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. St. Pete Beach 87, Tangier 50: St. Pete Beach leads by 37 points.
Food & drink. St. Pete Beach 40, Tangier 58: Tangier leads by 18 points.
Culture & sights. St. Pete Beach 18, Tangier 57: Tangier leads by 39 points.
Nightlife. St. Pete Beach 28, Tangier 30: Tangier leads by 2 points.
Nature & outdoors. St. Pete Beach 57, Tangier 55: St. Pete Beach leads by 2 points.
Day trips. St. Pete Beach 58, Tangier 72: Tangier leads by 14 points.
Good for families. St. Pete Beach 72, Tangier 35: St. Pete Beach leads by 37 points.
Getting around. St. Pete Beach 30, Tangier 40: Tangier leads by 10 points.
Shopping & style. St. Pete Beach 20, Tangier 42: Tangier leads by 22 points.
Affordability. St. Pete Beach 32, Tangier 76: Tangier leads by 44 points.
Live music & performing arts. St. Pete Beach 20, Tangier 28: Tangier leads by 8 points.
Wellness & relaxation. St. Pete Beach 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: St. Pete Beach and Tangier.

Your match

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

St. Pete Beach
42match

Wins on beaches and families with your weighting.

Tangier
Best match
49match

Wins on prices and culture and sights with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

St. Pete Beach in July

32 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
185 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine 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

St. Pete Beach 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.

St. Pete Beach's sunshine is measured 34 km from the centre, at Tampa International Airport.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. St. Pete Beach: 1998-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Saint Petersburg (12.2 km from centre). Tangier: 1991-2020 normals, Tanger Aerodrome (9.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureSt. Pete BeachTangier
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 airportSt. Petersburg Clearwater International Airport (PIE)21 km from centre60 non-stop destinationsTangier Ibn Battuta Airport (TNG)11 km from centre50 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureSt. Pete BeachTangier
City population8,8791,275,428
People per km²1736,393
Museums within 10 km26
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C8 months3 months

Where else could you go?

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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.