Agadir Car Hire: Compare Local Rental Deals
Live prices from suppliers working Agadir and Al Massira, with the deposit printed on every car.
Every line, one car at a time
In Agadir the deposit mostly stops existing
Count the hundred cars the grid above loads first and 86 of them block nothing on your card. No city on this site comes close to that, and it quietly changes how you should shop here: the question that dominates car hire almost everywhere else is already answered, so you can spend your attention on the gearbox, the size and the mileage instead.
86
listed with no deposit at all
37
priced under EUR 50 a day
96
with unlimited mileage
67
cancellable free of charge
48
automatics, against 52 manuals
10
SUV and crossover body shapes
Counted on the live first page of availability, so the figures move with the day. What does not move is the shape of the market: nothing in that hundred is classed as premium, and there is not one convertible, seven seater, van or electric car among them.
Three roads leave the city, and they want different cars
Agadir sits at a junction rather than at the end of anything. North is the surf coast, east is the climb towards the Anti-Atlas, and the long way north is the coast road to Essaouira. Deciding which of the three you are really going to drive is the fastest way to pick a car.
North on the coast road, to the surf villages
Tamraght and Taghazout start about fifteen and nineteen kilometres out, and the road keeps going past Aourir to the beaches at Tamri. It is the drive most visitors do most often, usually twice a day, and it asks almost nothing of the car. The thing it does ask for is somewhere to leave it: the village parking fills by mid morning in winter, and you will be reversing into a gap between two surf vans. A small hatchback is not a compromise on this road, it is the right answer.
The Taghazout and Tamri coastInland and upward
Turn east at Aourir and the road climbs into the first ridge of the Anti-Atlas towards Paradise Valley and Immouzer. Surface and width both fall away as you go, there are blind bends with no barrier, and the last stretch to the pools is rough. Only ten of the hundred cars are SUV or crossover shapes, so if you want one for this, book it before the week you need it.
Driving to Paradise ValleyThe long run to Essaouira
About a hundred and seventy kilometres of coast road, two and a half to three hours each way depending on how often you stop for the argan groves and the goats. It is comfortably a day trip and a terrible idea as a rush. This is the one journey where unlimited mileage earns its place on the booking, and 96 of the hundred cars have it.
The Essaouira coast roadAnd the one you drive first, from the airport
Al Massira sits roughly twenty five kilometres inland, so the first drive of the holiday happens before you have found the light switch in the apartment. Most charter flights into Agadir land in the evening, which means a first drive in the dark on an unfamiliar road. It is worth reading about before you land rather than after.
Collecting at Al MassiraThe order these choices actually arrive in
Most people open a list of cars and sort by price. In this city that puts the decisions in the wrong order, because the thing that normally costs you money has already been removed from most of the fleet. Work down in this sequence instead and you will be done in about four minutes.
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Settle the deposit first
Here that decision is almost made for you. Eighty six of the hundred cars in the current window block nothing on your card, so unless you have a specific reason to take a car that holds money, filter them out and the rest of the comparison gets simpler. Your liability if you damage the car is a separate question from whether money is frozen up front, and the car card tells you both.
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Pick the gearbox before the model
The split is close to even at 48 automatics against 52 manuals, which is unusual for a Moroccan city and means you are not forced into whichever one is left. It also means the automatics go first on busy dates. If an automatic is non negotiable for you, that is the part of the list to book early rather than the week before.
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Size it to the road you will actually drive
The coast road north and the trunk roads inland are surfaced and fine for anything. The pull up towards the Anti-Atlas is where a bigger car stops being a luxury, and there are only ten SUV or crossover shapes in the window. There are no seven seaters and no vans in this feed at all, so a group of six has to think in two cars.
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Check the mileage before you plan the week
Ninety six of the hundred come with unlimited kilometres, which matters more here than the number suggests. A week that takes in the surf villages, a day inland and one run up the coast to Essaouira and back puts six hundred kilometres on the clock without anyone trying, and that is before the daily trips to the beach and the souk.
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Keep an exit while your plans are soft
Sixty seven of the hundred can be cancelled free of charge. Book one of those as soon as your flights are fixed rather than waiting for certainty about the rest of the trip. Prices here move with the charter schedule, and the booking you can walk away from costs nothing to hold while you decide.
What driving here asks of you that driving at home does not
Morocco drives on the right and the road signs are in French and Arabic, so the mechanics are familiar to most European visitors. Three things are not, and all three are easier if you have read about them once.
Gendarmerie Royale checkpoints sit on the edges of towns and at junctions on the rural roads, and you will pass several in a day out of Agadir. They are a normal part of driving in Morocco rather than a sign that something is wrong. Slow to walking pace, wind the window down, and most of the time you get a nod and a wave through.
When you are stopped, what gets asked for is the driving licence, the International Driving Permit, and the car documents the supplier left in the glovebox. Keep all three together and reachable rather than in a bag in the boot. Speed is the other thing worth knowing: the limit drops to 60 at the town sign and the camera is usually just after it, not before.
Carry the permit and the licence as a pair. The permit on its own is not a licence, and the licence on its own is what some desks will query.
Filling stations are attended. You do not touch the pump: you say how much you want, in dirhams or in litres, and someone else does it. Diesel is sold as gasoil and is what most of the small hire cars here take, so check the cap and the dashboard before the nozzle goes in rather than after. Stations on the main roads out of the city are frequent; the ones in the hills are not, which matters on the inland runs.
Pay in cash unless you have seen a card machine. Rates in the search above are quoted in euros because that is the currency the suppliers price in, but fuel, parking and the tip at the end of it all happen in dirhams. Draw some before you leave the airport road behind. Whatever your voucher says about the tank, photograph the gauge and the odometer at pickup, because that photograph is the only version of the handover that is on your side.
Ask for the tank to be filled by amount, not by saying full, if you are returning the car the same day and want the gauge to land where it started.
On most streets near the beach, the marina and Souk El Had, a parking attendant will appear as you pull in and guide you into the space whether you wanted guidance or not. This is a recognised job rather than a scam. He watches the car while you are gone, and a few dirhams on your return is the expected payment. Hand it over when you leave, not when you arrive.
Hotel and apartment parking along the beach road is usually gated and often free for guests, and it is worth asking before you book a week of street parking you did not need. The one place to be careful is the souk on a Sunday, when the surrounding streets fill completely. Park a few blocks out and walk in; it is faster than circling, and the walk is five minutes.
Keep a handful of small coins in the door pocket. Nobody has change for a large note, and that is how a few dirhams becomes a lot of them.
Where the car earns its keep, and what each run asks for
Six journeys cover most of what people actually do with a hire car here. Read the last column before the first one: it is the part that decides which car you book.
| Run from Agadir | Distance | Typical drive | What it asks of the car |
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| Taghazout and the surf villages | 19 km | About 30 minutes | Nothing special. The smallest car in the list does this run happily. |
| Paradise Valley, by way of Aourir | About 60 km | Around 1 hour 20 | A narrowing road with blind bends and a rough final stretch. Ground clearance helps. |
| Taroudant and its walls | About 80 km | Around 1 hour 15 | Working air conditioning matters more than anything mechanical. |
| Tiznit and the road south | About 90 km | Around 1 hour 30 | A long straight run. Comfort and a full tank beat power. |
| Essaouira, up the coast | About 170 km | Around 2 hours 40 | Unlimited mileage, which 96 of the 100 cars already carry. |
| Souss-Massa and the river mouth | About 60 km south | Around 1 hour | Care on the last unsurfaced section, and daylight for the return. |
Times are for an ordinary day outside the morning rush on the beach road. Agadir is the largest Moroccan city with no railway station, which is the plain reason a car opens up more here than it would somewhere with a train out of town.
What drivers said when they brought the car back
Read all reviews“Nothing at all was blocked on the card, which I had read and still did not believe until the handover was over. The little Clio did Taghazout twice a day for nine days.”
Lucile Charbonnier
Nantes, France
“Good price and an easy pickup. I would warn people that the drive in from the airport in the dark is longer than it looks on a map, so do not book anything for that evening.”
Wouter Claessens
Antwerp, Belgium
“I drive down from Casablanca twice a year and hire here rather than bring my own car. Unlimited kilometres is the part that makes it work. The automatic I wanted was gone, so I booked earlier the second time.”
Hicham Benjelloun
Casablanca, Morocco
Give the list your dates and watch it reprice
The grid at the top of this page is live inventory, not a sample. Agadir Travel shows the deposit, the mileage and the cancellation terms on every car before you commit to any of them.
Search available carsQuestions people ask before they book here
Bring one. Your national licence is the document the law recognises, but rental desks in Morocco very commonly ask to see an International Driving Permit alongside it, especially if the licence is not in French or Arabic script. It is cheap and quick to get at home and impossible to get here, so the sensible plan is to carry both and never find out which desk would have insisted.
Yes, and it is the normal case rather than the exception here. Eighty six of the hundred cars in the current window are listed with no deposit at all, which is the highest proportion of any city on this site. Each card prints its own figure before you reserve, so you are not finding out at the counter what is about to be frozen.
Both are available in roughly equal numbers, 48 against 52 in the current window. That is a better automatic share than most of Morocco, and it exists because Agadir runs on package holiday traffic from northern Europe. The practical consequence is that automatics are the half of the list that empties first on school holiday dates.
There are no convertibles, no seven seaters, no vans and no electric cars in the current hundred, and nothing the feed classes as premium. Agadir is a small and mid sized hatchback market with a thin layer of crossovers on top. If you were planning on a large people carrier for a group, plan on two smaller cars instead.
The surfaced road network is in good condition and traffic drives on the right. Gendarmerie checkpoints on rural roads are routine rather than a problem: slow down, be ready to show licence, permit and the rental papers, and you will usually be waved through. Fixed and mobile speed cameras are common on the approaches to towns, and the limits drop sharply at the town sign.
Not necessarily, and it is worth being honest about that before you book two weeks of parking you will not use. The beach, the marina and the souk are walkable or a cheap taxi apart. The car is what gets you to the places the taxis will not take you cheaply. There is a fuller answer on the page about whether a car is worth it at all.