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The Texas State Capitol under a blue sky, Austin
AustinThe Texas State Capitol under a blue sky
The blue gate of Bab Bou Jeloud, Fes
FesThe blue gate of Bab Bou Jeloud

Photos: Austin by LoneStarMike, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Fes by Ideophagous, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Austin 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 Austin for

  • nightlife
  • live music and the arts
  • families

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

Choose Fes for

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • wellness

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. Austin 30, Fes 5: Austin leads by 25 points.
Food & drink. Austin 66, Fes 62: Austin leads by 4 points.
Culture & sights. Austin 40, Fes 80: Fes leads by 40 points.
Nightlife. Austin 65, Fes 12: Austin leads by 53 points.
Nature & outdoors. Austin 57, Fes 52: Austin leads by 5 points.
Day trips. Austin 58, Fes 62: Fes leads by 4 points.
Good for families. Austin 55, Fes 22: Austin leads by 33 points.
Getting around. Austin 30, Fes 40: Fes leads by 10 points.
Shopping & style. Austin 45, Fes 68: Fes leads by 23 points.
Affordability. Austin 33, Fes 80: Fes leads by 47 points.
Live music & performing arts. Austin 77, Fes 32: Austin leads by 45 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Austin 40, Fes 70: Fes leads by 30 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Austin and Fes.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Austin
50match

Wins on nightlife and live music and the arts with your weighting.

Fes
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.

Austin in July

36 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
49 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
14 hdaylight a day

Fes in July

36 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
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. Austin: 1991-2020 normals, Camp Mabry/Austin City Asos (3.7 km from centre). Fes: 1999-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Fes-Sais (12.4 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAustinFes
Official language-Arabic, Standard Moroccan Tamazight
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Moroccan Dirham (MAD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCE50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6, UTC-5 in summerUTC+1
Emergency number911Police 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15
Elevation149 m408 m
Main airportAustin Bergstrom International Airport (AUS)13 km from centre91 non-stop destinationsFes Saïss International Airport (FEZ)13 km from centre35 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureAustinFes
City population961,8551,167,842
People per km²1,2173,650
Museums within 10 km212
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01

Where else could you go?

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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. 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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.