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The Brandenburg Gate, Berlin
BerlinThe Brandenburg Gate
The blue gate of Bab Bou Jeloud, Fes
FesThe blue gate of Bab Bou Jeloud

Photos: Berlin by Claudia Solano, Pexels License; Fes by Ideophagous, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Berlin 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 Berlin for

  • nightlife
  • live music and the arts
  • families

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

Choose Fes for

  • prices
  • wellness
  • nature and the outdoors

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. Berlin 38, Fes 5: Berlin leads by 33 points.
Food & drink. Berlin 66, Fes 62: Berlin leads by 4 points.
Culture & sights. Berlin 86, Fes 80: Berlin leads by 6 points.
Nightlife. Berlin 98, Fes 12: Berlin leads by 86 points.
Nature & outdoors. Berlin 50, Fes 52: Fes leads by 2 points.
Day trips. Berlin 66, Fes 62: Berlin leads by 4 points.
Good for families. Berlin 76, Fes 22: Berlin leads by 54 points.
Getting around. Berlin 82, Fes 40: Berlin leads by 42 points.
Shopping & style. Berlin and Fes are level on 68.
Affordability. Berlin 48, Fes 80: Fes leads by 32 points.
Live music & performing arts. Berlin 90, Fes 32: Berlin leads by 58 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Berlin 55, Fes 70: Fes leads by 15 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Berlin and Fes.

Your match

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

Berlin
Best match
69match

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

Fes
49match

Wins on prices and wellness with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Berlin in July

25 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
76 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
16 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. Berlin: 1991-2020 normals, Berlin / Alexanderplatz (0.9 km from centre). Fes: 1999-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Fes-Sais (12.4 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBerlinFes
Official languageGermanArabic, Standard Moroccan Tamazight
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Moroccan Dirham (MAD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCE50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1
Emergency number112Police 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15
Elevation34 m408 m
Main airportBerlin Brandenburg Airport (BER)19 km from centre161 non-stop destinationsFes Saïss International Airport (FEZ)13 km from centre35 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBerlinFes
City population3,700,5771,167,842
People per km²4,1533,650
Museums within 10 km1572
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km41

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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). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.