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The CEC Palace on Calea Victoriei, Bucharest
BucharestThe CEC Palace on Calea Victoriei
The blue gate of Bab Bou Jeloud, Fes
FesThe blue gate of Bab Bou Jeloud

Photos: Bucharest by Jorge Láscar, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Fes by Ideophagous, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Bucharest 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 Bucharest for

  • nightlife
  • families
  • live music and the arts

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

Choose Fes for

  • shopping
  • wellness
  • culture and sights

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. Bucharest 8, Fes 5: Bucharest leads by 3 points.
Food & drink. Bucharest 55, Fes 62: Fes leads by 7 points.
Culture & sights. Bucharest 58, Fes 80: Fes leads by 22 points.
Nightlife. Bucharest 70, Fes 12: Bucharest leads by 58 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bucharest 45, Fes 52: Fes leads by 7 points.
Day trips. Bucharest 52, Fes 62: Fes leads by 10 points.
Good for families. Bucharest 52, Fes 22: Bucharest leads by 30 points.
Getting around. Bucharest 52, Fes 40: Bucharest leads by 12 points.
Shopping & style. Bucharest 45, Fes 68: Fes leads by 23 points.
Affordability. Bucharest 70, Fes 80: Fes leads by 10 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bucharest 60, Fes 32: Bucharest leads by 28 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bucharest 47, Fes 70: Fes leads by 23 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bucharest and Fes.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Bucharest
51match

Wins on nightlife and families with your weighting.

Fes
49match

Wins on shopping 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.

Bucharest in July

30 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
68 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
15 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. Bucharest: 1991-2020 normals, Bucuresti / Imh (10 km from centre). Fes: 1999-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Fes-Sais (12.4 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBucharestFes
Official languageRomanianArabic, Standard Moroccan Tamazight
CurrencyRomanian Leu (RON)Moroccan Dirham (MAD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCE50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC+1
Emergency number112Police 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15
Elevation70 m408 m
Main airportBucharest Henri Coandă International Airport (OTP)18 km from centre121 non-stop destinationsFes Saïss International Airport (FEZ)13 km from centre35 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBucharestFes
City population1,716,9611,167,842
People per km²7,5973,650
Museums within 10 km412
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01

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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). 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.