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A dhow below the towers of West Bay, Doha
DohaA dhow below the towers of West Bay
The blue gate of Bab Bou Jeloud, Fes
FesThe blue gate of Bab Bou Jeloud

Photos: Doha by Gregory Hawken Kramer, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Fes by Ideophagous, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Doha 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 Doha for

  • beaches
  • families
  • nightlife

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

Choose Fes for

  • day trips
  • nature and the outdoors
  • prices

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. Doha 45, Fes 5: Doha leads by 40 points.
Food & drink. Doha 55, Fes 62: Fes leads by 7 points.
Culture & sights. Doha 55, Fes 80: Fes leads by 25 points.
Nightlife. Doha 20, Fes 12: Doha leads by 8 points.
Nature & outdoors. Doha 7, Fes 52: Fes leads by 45 points.
Day trips. Doha 5, Fes 62: Fes leads by 57 points.
Good for families. Doha 60, Fes 22: Doha leads by 38 points.
Getting around. Doha 45, Fes 40: Doha leads by 5 points.
Shopping & style. Doha 60, Fes 68: Fes leads by 8 points.
Affordability. Doha 38, Fes 80: Fes leads by 42 points.
Live music & performing arts. Doha 30, Fes 32: Fes leads by 2 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Doha 38, Fes 70: Fes leads by 32 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Doha and Fes.

Your match

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

Doha
38match

Wins on beaches and families with your weighting.

Fes
Best match
49match

Wins on day trips and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Doha in July

43 °Cdaytime high
33 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
33 °Csea
14 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. Doha: 1991-2020 normals, Doha International Airport (5.5 km from centre). Fes: 1999-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Fes-Sais (12.4 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureDohaFes
Official languageArabicArabic, Standard Moroccan Tamazight
CurrencyQatari Rial (QAR)Moroccan Dirham (MAD)
SocketsG240 V, 50 HzCE50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC+1
Emergency number999Police 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15
Elevation0 m408 m
Main airportHamad International Airport (DOH)8 km from centre195 non-stop destinationsFes Saïss International Airport (FEZ)13 km from centre35 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-11 days

By the numbers

MeasureDohaFes
City population1,186,0231,167,842
People per km²8,9853,650
Museums within 10 km62
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C9 months-

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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). 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. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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.