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The blue gate of Bab Bou Jeloud, Fes
FesThe blue gate of Bab Bou Jeloud
The Japanese Covered Bridge, Hoi An
Hoi AnThe Japanese Covered Bridge

Photos: Fes by Ideophagous, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Hoi An by François Guerraz, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Fes or Hoi An?

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

  • culture and sights
  • day trips
  • shopping

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

Choose Hoi An for

  • beaches
  • families
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Hoi An’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, Hoi An 72: Hoi An leads by 67 points.
Food & drink. Fes 62, Hoi An 68: Hoi An leads by 6 points.
Culture & sights. Fes 80, Hoi An 66: Fes leads by 14 points.
Nightlife. Fes 12, Hoi An 28: Hoi An leads by 16 points.
Nature & outdoors. Fes 52, Hoi An 63: Hoi An leads by 11 points.
Day trips. Fes 62, Hoi An 50: Fes leads by 12 points.
Good for families. Fes 22, Hoi An 58: Hoi An leads by 36 points.
Getting around. Fes 40, Hoi An 48: Hoi An leads by 8 points.
Shopping & style. Fes 68, Hoi An 57: Fes leads by 11 points.
Affordability. Fes 80, Hoi An 88: Hoi An leads by 8 points.
Live music & performing arts. Fes 32, Hoi An 24: Fes leads by 8 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Fes 70, Hoi An 65: Fes leads by 5 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Fes and Hoi An.

Your match

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

Fes
49match

Wins on culture and sights and day trips with your weighting.

Hoi An
Best match
57match

Wins on beaches and families 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
No seasea
14 hdaylight a day

Hoi An in July

35 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
83 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
29 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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FesHoi An

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). Hoi An: 1991-2020 normals, Da Nang (23.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureFesHoi An
Official languageArabic, Standard Moroccan TamazightVietnamese
CurrencyMoroccan Dirham (MAD)Dong (VND)
SocketsCE50 HzACFG220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1UTC+7
Emergency numberPolice 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15Police 113, ambulance 115, fire 114
Elevation408 m13 m
Main airportFes Saïss International Airport (FEZ)13 km from centre35 non-stop destinationsDa Nang International Airport (DAD)23 km from centre47 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days-

By the numbers

MeasureFesHoi An
City population1,167,842121,716
People per km²3,650-
Museums within 10 km25
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Swim season, months above 21 °C-12 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. 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.