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The Fisherman's Bastion, Budapest
BudapestThe Fisherman's Bastion
The blue gate of Bab Bou Jeloud, Fes
FesThe blue gate of Bab Bou Jeloud

Photos: Budapest by Perituss, CC0; Fes by Ideophagous, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Budapest 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 Budapest for

  • nightlife
  • live music and the arts
  • families

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

Choose Fes for

  • prices
  • 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. Budapest 25, Fes 5: Budapest leads by 20 points.
Food & drink. Budapest 63, Fes 62: Budapest leads by 1 points.
Culture & sights. Budapest and Fes are level on 80.
Nightlife. Budapest 78, Fes 12: Budapest leads by 66 points.
Nature & outdoors. Budapest 58, Fes 52: Budapest leads by 6 points.
Day trips. Budapest 68, Fes 62: Budapest leads by 6 points.
Good for families. Budapest 62, Fes 22: Budapest leads by 40 points.
Getting around. Budapest 78, Fes 40: Budapest leads by 38 points.
Shopping & style. Budapest 55, Fes 68: Fes leads by 13 points.
Affordability. Budapest 62, Fes 80: Fes leads by 18 points.
Live music & performing arts. Budapest 76, Fes 32: Budapest leads by 44 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Budapest 98, Fes 70: Budapest leads by 28 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Budapest and Fes.

Your match

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

Budapest
Best match
67match

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

Fes
49match

Wins on prices and shopping with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Budapest in July

27 °Cdaytime high
17 °Cnight-time low
75 mmrain in the month
10 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. Budapest: 1991-2020 normals, Budapest Met Center (2.1 km from centre). Fes: 1999-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Fes-Sais (12.4 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBudapestFes
Official languageHungarianArabic, Standard Moroccan Tamazight
CurrencyForint (HUF)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
Elevation117 m408 m
Main airportBudapest Liszt Ferenc International Airport (BUD)18 km from centre157 non-stop destinationsFes Saïss International Airport (FEZ)13 km from centre35 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBudapestFes
City population1,675,7771,167,842
People per km²3,1913,650
Museums within 10 km812
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11

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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.