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The blue gate of Bab Bou Jeloud, Fes
FesThe blue gate of Bab Bou Jeloud
Palms on Waikiki Beach, Honolulu
HonoluluPalms on Waikiki Beach

Photos: Fes by Ideophagous, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Honolulu by Jess Loiterton, Pexels License.

Fes or Honolulu?

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
  • day trips

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

Choose Honolulu for

  • beaches
  • families
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Honolulu’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, Honolulu 91: Honolulu leads by 86 points.
Food & drink. Fes 62, Honolulu 70: Honolulu leads by 8 points.
Culture & sights. Fes 80, Honolulu 55: Fes leads by 25 points.
Nightlife. Fes 12, Honolulu 45: Honolulu leads by 33 points.
Nature & outdoors. Fes 52, Honolulu 88: Honolulu leads by 36 points.
Day trips. Fes 62, Honolulu 38: Fes leads by 24 points.
Good for families. Fes 22, Honolulu 80: Honolulu leads by 58 points.
Getting around. Fes 40, Honolulu 52: Honolulu leads by 12 points.
Shopping & style. Fes 68, Honolulu 60: Fes leads by 8 points.
Affordability. Fes 80, Honolulu 15: Fes leads by 65 points.
Live music & performing arts. Fes 32, Honolulu 40: Honolulu leads by 8 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Fes 70, Honolulu 50: Fes leads by 20 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Fes and Honolulu.

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.

Honolulu
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

Honolulu in July

31 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
13 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
26 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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FesHonolulu

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). Honolulu: 1991-2020 normals, Honolulu International Airport (10.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureFesHonolulu
Official languageArabic, Standard Moroccan Tamazight-
CurrencyMoroccan Dirham (MAD)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCE50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1UTC-10
Emergency numberPolice 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15911
Elevation408 m12 m
Main airportFes Saïss International Airport (FEZ)13 km from centre35 non-stop destinationsDaniel K. Inouye International Airport (HNL)7 km from centre56 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureFesHonolulu
City population1,167,842350,964
People per km²3,6501,981
Museums within 10 km212
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
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. 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.