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Taipei 101 and the skyline from Elephant Mountain, Taipei
TaipeiTaipei 101 and the skyline from Elephant Mountain
The Cap Spartel lighthouse among palms, Tangier
TangierThe Cap Spartel lighthouse among palms

Photos: Taipei by Another Believer, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Tangier by Ideophagous, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Taipei 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 Taipei for

  • getting around
  • families
  • food and drink

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

Choose Tangier for

  • beaches
  • prices

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. Taipei 40, Tangier 50: Tangier leads by 10 points.
Food & drink. Taipei 88, Tangier 58: Taipei leads by 30 points.
Culture & sights. Taipei 68, Tangier 57: Taipei leads by 11 points.
Nightlife. Taipei 58, Tangier 30: Taipei leads by 28 points.
Nature & outdoors. Taipei 78, Tangier 55: Taipei leads by 23 points.
Day trips. Taipei 76, Tangier 72: Taipei leads by 4 points.
Good for families. Taipei 72, Tangier 35: Taipei leads by 37 points.
Getting around. Taipei 86, Tangier 40: Taipei leads by 46 points.
Shopping & style. Taipei 70, Tangier 42: Taipei leads by 28 points.
Affordability. Taipei 66, Tangier 76: Tangier leads by 10 points.
Live music & performing arts. Taipei 55, Tangier 28: Taipei leads by 27 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Taipei 80, Tangier 50: Taipei leads by 30 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Taipei and Tangier.

Your match

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

Taipei
Best match
70match

Wins on getting around and families with your weighting.

Tangier
49match

Wins on beaches 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.

Taipei in July

35 °Cdaytime high
27 °Cnight-time low
288 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
29 °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

Taipei 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. Taipei: 1992-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Sungshan / Taipei (3.5 km from centre). Tangier: 1991-2020 normals, Tanger Aerodrome (9.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureTaipeiTangier
Official languageTaiwanese Sign Language, Amis, Taiwanese Hokkien, Rukai, Bunun, Kanakanavu, Standard Taiwanese Mandarin, Paiwan, Yami, Atayal, Saaroa, Kavalan, Tsou, Seediq, Puyuma, Saisiyat, Sakizaya, Taiwanese Hakka, Truku, Matsu dialect, Kinmen dialect, Wuqiu dialectArabic, Standard Moroccan Tamazight
CurrencyNew Taiwan Dollar (TWD)Moroccan Dirham (MAD)
SocketsAB110 V, 60 HzCE50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+8UTC+1
Emergency number110 or 112 or 119Police 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15
Elevation10 m56 m
Main airportTaiwan Taoyuan International Airport (TPE)33 km from centreTangier Ibn Battuta Airport (TNG)11 km from centre50 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-11 days

By the numbers

MeasureTaipeiTangier
City population2,429,4291,275,428
People per km²8,9386,393
Museums within 10 km696
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). Currency from the ISO 4217 register maintained by SIX, cross-checked against country data from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Time zones from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0); clock offsets computed from the IANA time zone database. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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. Price level from World Bank open data (PPP conversion factor for private consumption and official exchange rate), CC BY 4.0. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.