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The skyline across the water with the Chugach Mountains behind, Anchorage
AnchorageThe skyline across the water with the Chugach Mountains behind
The blue gate of Bab Bou Jeloud, Fes
FesThe blue gate of Bab Bou Jeloud

Photos: Anchorage by Frank K., CC BY 2.0, cropped; Fes by Ideophagous, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Anchorage or Fes?

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 Anchorage for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • families
  • nightlife

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

Choose Fes for

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Fes’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. Anchorage 8, Fes 5: Anchorage leads by 3 points.
Food & drink. Anchorage 40, Fes 62: Fes leads by 22 points.
Culture & sights. Anchorage 35, Fes 80: Fes leads by 45 points.
Nightlife. Anchorage 30, Fes 12: Anchorage leads by 18 points.
Nature & outdoors. Anchorage 93, Fes 52: Anchorage leads by 41 points.
Day trips. Anchorage 33, Fes 62: Fes leads by 29 points.
Good for families. Anchorage 55, Fes 22: Anchorage leads by 33 points.
Getting around. Anchorage 22, Fes 40: Fes leads by 18 points.
Shopping & style. Anchorage 28, Fes 68: Fes leads by 40 points.
Affordability. Anchorage 28, Fes 80: Fes leads by 52 points.
Live music & performing arts. Anchorage 34, Fes 32: Anchorage leads by 2 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Anchorage 32, Fes 70: Fes leads by 38 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Anchorage and Fes.

Your match

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

Anchorage
37match

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

Fes
Best match
49match

Wins on prices and culture and sights with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Anchorage in July

20 °Cdaytime high
12 °Cnight-time low
47 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
13 °Csea
18 hdaylight a day

Fes in July

36 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
No seasea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Fes's station stands 171 m above the city centre, so the centre is likely a little warmer than the figures say.

Fes 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.

Fes's sunshine is measured 52 km from the centre, at Meknes.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Anchorage: 1991-2020 normals, Anchorage Air Force Base (7 km from centre). Fes: 1999-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Fes-Sais (12.4 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAnchorageFes
Official language-Arabic, Standard Moroccan Tamazight
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Moroccan Dirham (MAD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCE50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-9, UTC-8 in summerUTC+1
Emergency number911Police 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15
Elevation31 m408 m
Main airportTed Stevens Anchorage International Airport (ANC)7 km from centre49 non-stop destinationsFes Saïss International Airport (FEZ)13 km from centre35 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureAnchorageFes
City population291,2471,167,842
People per km²583,650
Museums within 10 km52
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone-

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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). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm.

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.