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The blue gate of Bab Bou Jeloud, Fes
FesThe blue gate of Bab Bou Jeloud
The junk Duk Ling in Victoria Harbour, Hong Kong
Hong KongThe junk Duk Ling in Victoria Harbour

Photos: Fes by Ideophagous, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Hong Kong by LN9267, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Fes or Hong Kong?

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
  • wellness
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Hong Kong for

  • getting around
  • nightlife
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Hong Kong’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, Hong Kong 50: Hong Kong leads by 45 points.
Food & drink. Fes 62, Hong Kong 90: Hong Kong leads by 28 points.
Culture & sights. Fes 80, Hong Kong 60: Fes leads by 20 points.
Nightlife. Fes 12, Hong Kong 68: Hong Kong leads by 56 points.
Nature & outdoors. Fes 52, Hong Kong 80: Hong Kong leads by 28 points.
Day trips. Fes 62, Hong Kong 68: Hong Kong leads by 6 points.
Good for families. Fes 22, Hong Kong 75: Hong Kong leads by 53 points.
Getting around. Fes 40, Hong Kong 97: Hong Kong leads by 57 points.
Shopping & style. Fes 68, Hong Kong 88: Hong Kong leads by 20 points.
Affordability. Fes 80, Hong Kong 27: Fes leads by 53 points.
Live music & performing arts. Fes 32, Hong Kong 55: Hong Kong leads by 23 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Fes 70, Hong Kong 42: Fes leads by 28 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Fes and Hong Kong.

Your match

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

Fes
49match

Wins on prices and wellness with your weighting.

Hong Kong
Best match
67match

Wins on getting around and nightlife 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

Hong Kong in July

31 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
381 mmrain in the month
7 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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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). Hong Kong: 1991-2020 normals, King's Park (4.4 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureFesHong Kong
Official languageArabic, Standard Moroccan TamazightStandard Chinese
CurrencyMoroccan Dirham (MAD)Hong Kong Dollar (HKD)
SocketsCE50 HzG220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1UTC+8
Emergency numberPolice 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15999
Elevation408 m7 m
Main airportFes Saïss International Airport (FEZ)13 km from centre35 non-stop destinationsHong Kong International Airport (HKG)25 km from centre148 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days17 days

By the numbers

MeasureFesHong Kong
City population1,167,8427,413,070
People per km²3,650-
Museums within 10 km239
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °C-8 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. 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.