Rebuilt from nothing after 1960, Agadir has no ticketed medina and almost no entry fees worth the name. Free parks, 20 MAD museums, port stalls grilling sardines by weight and 4.5 MAD buses north make it Morocco's cheapest coastal base.
A free 4.5-hectare strip park cut through Avenue Hassan II, holding flamingos, mouflon sheep, a small aviary and a mini-waterfall. Open 09:00–18:30, closed Mondays, with no ticket booth at either gate. Shaded benches everywhere.
A walled Portuguese-style garden gifted by twin city Olhão, containing the Mémoire d'Agadir museum: black-and-white photographs of the streets before and after the February 1960 earthquake. Entry 20 MAD, open 09:30–17:30.
Tucked in Passage Ait Souss, this municipal museum shows Souss Berber silver: fibulae, amber and coral necklaces, carved wooden door locks and Tiznit enamel work, captioned in Tifinagh script. Open 09:30–17:30, Monday to Saturday.
Ten kilometres north on bus 32 (4.5 MAD), the low-tide rock shelf at Anza exposes theropod tracks pressed into Jurassic stone. Unfenced, unsigned and free — the clearest slab sits north of the fishermen's launching ramp.
The neighbourhood market where Agadir actually shops: a kilo of tomatoes for 8 MAD, Souss dates at 25 MAD, argan oil at roughly half the Corniche price. Open daily 07:00–20:00 and the haggling stays gentle here.
Numbered blue stalls inside the working fishing port grill whatever the trawlers landed that morning. Point at sardines, sole or squid, pay by weight; a full plate with bread, tomato salad and tea runs 50–70 MAD. Open 11:00–16:00.
Twelve kilometres north, Aourir holds its weekly souk every Wednesday: banana stacks from the valley plantations, Berber pottery, second-hand clothes and mint by the armful. Bus 32 or 33 from Yacoub El Mansour costs 4.5 MAD.
After dark the lanes around Place Al Amal fill with harira carts at 3 MAD a bowl, msemen griddles, snail broth for 10 MAD and brochette stands where four skewers with bread come in under 30 MAD. Cash only, small notes.
Shared grand taxis from the Inezgane rank climb 60km into the Anti-Atlas to palm-shaded granite pools on the Tamraght river. Swimming costs nothing; a seat in a six-passenger Mercedes runs about 40 MAD each way.
A wide sand bay under the banana plantations, with gentle beginner breaks and surf schools renting boards from 100 MAD a day. The cliff-top cafés charge triple what the village shops do, so carry food down with you.
A fishing hamlet turned surf capital, but the blue-painted alleys, rooftop mint tea at 12 MAD and watching Panorama and Hash Point break cost nothing at all. Bus 32 from Agadir runs roughly every 30 minutes until 20:00.
The jetty past the marina berths is public and free, facing straight into the Atlantic sunset with the floodlit Kasbah hill and its hillside inscription behind you. Local fishermen work the wall until well after dark.