Love 🇵🇹 Ponta Delgada (Azores)? Try these quieter alternatives

Ponta Delgada (Azores) is wonderful — but it's also a top-tier destination, which means peak-season crowds, premium prices, and Instagram-famous spots packed three deep. Here are 8 cities whose year-round climate closely matches Ponta Delgada (Azores)'s, but which see a fraction of the visitors.

Top pick: Tangier, Morocco — 63% annual-climate match, considerably less-touristed.

8 quieter cities with Ponta Delgada (Azores)-like climate

#1
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Tangier
Morocco
63%
Summer ~30°C · Winter ~9°C
See Tangier guide →
#2
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Porto
Portugal
65%
Summer ~26°C · Winter ~8°C
See Porto guide →
#3
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Sintra
Portugal
63%
Summer ~25°C · Winter ~8°C
See Sintra guide →
#4
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Genoa
Italy
57%
Summer ~28°C · Winter ~5°C
See Genoa guide →
#5
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Essaouira
Morocco
57%
Summer ~26°C · Winter ~11°C
See Essaouira guide →
#6
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Beirut
Lebanon
54%
Summer ~31°C · Winter ~10°C
See Beirut guide →
#7
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Bwindi
Uganda
56%
Summer ~22°C · Winter ~12°C
See Bwindi guide →
#8
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Asmara
Eritrea
53%
Summer ~25°C · Winter ~10°C
See Asmara guide →

How we picked these

We compared every climate-sample city against Ponta Delgada (Azores)'s monthly temperature and rainfall, then filtered to cities at a meaningfully lower tourist-popularity tier. The percentage above each card is a climate-similarity score (closer to 100% = more identical month-by-month conditions).

Climate isn't everything — culture, food, language, and vibe matter too. Treat these as "if I loved the weather, where else feels like that?" not as 1:1 substitutes.

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