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The Cap Spartel lighthouse among palms, Tangier
TangierThe Cap Spartel lighthouse among palms
The Rialto Bridge on the Grand Canal, Venice
VeniceThe Rialto Bridge on the Grand Canal

Photos: Tangier by Ideophagous, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Venice by David Vives, Pexels License.

Tangier or Venice?

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

  • prices
  • nature and the outdoors
  • wellness

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

Choose Venice for

  • culture and sights
  • live music and the arts
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Venice’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, Venice 56: Venice leads by 6 points.
Food & drink. Tangier 58, Venice 60: Venice leads by 2 points.
Culture & sights. Tangier 57, Venice 94: Venice leads by 37 points.
Nightlife. Tangier 30, Venice 27: Tangier leads by 3 points.
Nature & outdoors. Tangier 55, Venice 45: Tangier leads by 10 points.
Day trips. Tangier 72, Venice 86: Venice leads by 14 points.
Good for families. Tangier 35, Venice 45: Venice leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Tangier 40, Venice 68: Venice leads by 28 points.
Shopping & style. Tangier 42, Venice 57: Venice leads by 15 points.
Affordability. Tangier 76, Venice 20: Tangier leads by 56 points.
Live music & performing arts. Tangier 28, Venice 62: Venice leads by 34 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Tangier 50, Venice 40: Tangier leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Tangier and Venice.

Your match

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

Tangier
49match

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

Venice
Best match
55match

Wins on culture and sights and live music and the arts 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

Venice in July

29 °Cdaytime high
20 °Cnight-time low
61 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
25 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Venice 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.

Venice's sunshine is measured 26 km from the centre, at Treviso / S. Angelo.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Tangier: 1991-2020 normals, Tanger Aerodrome (9.5 km from centre). Venice: 1991-2020 normals, Venezia / Tessera (6.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureTangierVenice
Official languageArabic, Standard Moroccan TamazightItalian
CurrencyMoroccan Dirham (MAD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15112
Elevation56 m2 m
Main airportTangier Ibn Battuta Airport (TNG)11 km from centre50 non-stop destinationsVenice Marco Polo Airport (VCE)7 km from centre103 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureTangierVenice
City population1,275,428250,369
People per km²6,393602
Museums within 10 km652
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km15
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 months4 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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under 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.