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The Cap Spartel lighthouse among palms, Tangier
TangierThe Cap Spartel lighthouse among palms
Rowing boats below the ghats in the morning light, Varanasi
VaranasiRowing boats below the ghats in the morning light

Photos: Tangier by Ideophagous, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Varanasi by Dennis G. Jarvis, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Tangier or Varanasi?

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 Tangier for

  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors
  • day trips

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

Choose Varanasi for

  • live music and the arts
  • culture and sights
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Varanasi’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. Tangier 50, Varanasi 4: Tangier leads by 46 points.
Food & drink. Tangier 58, Varanasi 55: Tangier leads by 3 points.
Culture & sights. Tangier 57, Varanasi 80: Varanasi leads by 23 points.
Nightlife. Tangier 30, Varanasi 10: Tangier leads by 20 points.
Nature & outdoors. Tangier 55, Varanasi 18: Tangier leads by 37 points.
Day trips. Tangier 72, Varanasi 42: Tangier leads by 30 points.
Good for families. Tangier 35, Varanasi 5: Tangier leads by 30 points.
Getting around. Tangier 40, Varanasi 28: Tangier leads by 12 points.
Shopping & style. Tangier 42, Varanasi 55: Varanasi leads by 13 points.
Affordability. Tangier 76, Varanasi 92: Varanasi leads by 16 points.
Live music & performing arts. Tangier 28, Varanasi 58: Varanasi leads by 30 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Tangier 50, Varanasi 30: Tangier leads by 20 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Tangier and Varanasi.

Your match

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

Tangier
Best match
49match

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

Varanasi
40match

Wins on live music and the arts 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.

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

Varanasi in July

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

Varanasi has no weather station within reach, so its figures come from a gridded climate model rather than a measured record, and read a broad area rather than the city itself.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Tangier: 1991-2020 normals, Tanger Aerodrome (9.5 km from centre). Varanasi: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureTangierVaranasi
Official languageArabic, Standard Moroccan TamazightHindi, English
CurrencyMoroccan Dirham (MAD)Indian Rupee (INR)
SocketsCE50 HzCM230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1UTC+5:30
Emergency numberPolice 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15108 or 112
Elevation56 m76 m
Main airportTangier Ibn Battuta Airport (TNG)11 km from centre50 non-stop destinationsLal Bahadur Shastri International Airport (VNS)21 km from centre16 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days-

By the numbers

MeasureTangierVaranasi
City population1,275,4281,198,491
People per km²6,39314,598
Museums within 10 km62
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 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). 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. Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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.