Best Cafés in Agadir — Seafront Coffee in Morocco's Beach Resort

Unlike the historic medinas of the imperial cities, Agadir is a modern, planned city, rebuilt from scratch after the 1960 earthquake, and its café life reflects that: broad, sunny, open-air and geared to the beach. The long seafront promenade along the bay is lined with café terraces where locals and holidaymakers sit over coffee and mint tea with a view of the Atlantic and the wide sandy beach — the city's defining scene. The marina area adds smarter, more contemporary cafés and lounges by the water.

The orders are the Moroccan classics — mint tea (atay), nous-nous (half coffee, half milk), qahwa kahla (black), café cassé — served in a resort setting more European in rhythm than the inland cities. Being in the Souss, argan country, Agadir cafés often serve amlou (the almond-argan-honey spread) and fresh orange juice from the region's abundant citrus. The mild, sunny climate means terrace weather most of the year, and café hours stretch late into warm evenings.

Away from the seafront, the city's neighbourhoods have the everyday Moroccan cafés — functional, sociable, cheap — where locals sit over a coffee, and the newer districts add modern coffee spots. But the signature Agadir café experience is the beachfront terrace: sun, sea air, a long drink and the Atlantic in front of you, an easy, unhurried pleasure between beach and town.

Pick a promenade terrace facing the beach or a marina café by the water, order a mint tea or a nous-nous, and settle in for the view. Agadir is made for slow, sunny café hours, and one drink buys a long, breezy stay by the ocean.