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The blue gate of Bab Bou Jeloud, Fes
FesThe blue gate of Bab Bou Jeloud
The Jet d'Eau and a lake boat, Geneva
GenevaThe Jet d'Eau and a lake boat

Photos: Fes by Ideophagous, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Geneva by Diviosen, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Fes or Geneva?

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 Fes for

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • wellness

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

Choose Geneva for

  • getting around
  • beaches
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Geneva’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. Fes 5, Geneva 45: Geneva leads by 40 points.
Food & drink. Fes 62, Geneva 55: Fes leads by 7 points.
Culture & sights. Fes 80, Geneva 58: Fes leads by 22 points.
Nightlife. Fes 12, Geneva 38: Geneva leads by 26 points.
Nature & outdoors. Fes 52, Geneva 82: Geneva leads by 30 points.
Day trips. Fes 62, Geneva 80: Geneva leads by 18 points.
Good for families. Fes 22, Geneva 57: Geneva leads by 35 points.
Getting around. Fes 40, Geneva 86: Geneva leads by 46 points.
Shopping & style. Fes and Geneva are level on 68.
Affordability. Fes 80, Geneva 5: Fes leads by 75 points.
Live music & performing arts. Fes 32, Geneva 60: Geneva leads by 28 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Fes 70, Geneva 55: Fes leads by 15 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Fes and Geneva.

Your match

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

Fes
49match

Wins on prices and culture and sights with your weighting.

Geneva
Best match
57match

Wins on getting around and beaches with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Fes in July

36 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
14 hdaylight a day

Geneva in July

27 °Cdaytime high
15 °Cnight-time low
77 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
15 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. Fes: 1999-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Fes-Sais (12.4 km from centre). Geneva: 1991-2020 normals, Geneve-Cointrin (5.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureFesGeneva
Official languageArabic, Standard Moroccan TamazightFrench, German, Italian, Romansh
CurrencyMoroccan Dirham (MAD)Swiss Franc (CHF)
SocketsCE50 HzCJ230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15112
Elevation408 m403 m
Main airportFes Saïss International Airport (FEZ)13 km from centre35 non-stop destinationsGeneva International Airport (GVA)5 km from centre150 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureFesGeneva
City population1,167,842211,152
People per km²3,65013,280
Museums within 10 km234
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12

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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). 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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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.