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The blue gate of Bab Bou Jeloud, Fes
FesThe blue gate of Bab Bou Jeloud
Inverness Castle above the River Ness, Inverness
InvernessInverness Castle above the River Ness

Photos: Fes by Ideophagous, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Inverness by Diliff, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Fes or Inverness?

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
  • prices
  • wellness

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

Choose Inverness for

  • families
  • nature and the outdoors
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Inverness’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, Inverness 20: Inverness leads by 15 points.
Food & drink. Fes 62, Inverness 36: Fes leads by 26 points.
Culture & sights. Fes 80, Inverness 27: Fes leads by 53 points.
Nightlife. Fes 12, Inverness 28: Inverness leads by 16 points.
Nature & outdoors. Fes 52, Inverness 84: Inverness leads by 32 points.
Day trips. Fes 62, Inverness 56: Fes leads by 6 points.
Good for families. Fes 22, Inverness 55: Inverness leads by 33 points.
Getting around. Fes 40, Inverness 48: Inverness leads by 8 points.
Shopping & style. Fes 68, Inverness 30: Fes leads by 38 points.
Affordability. Fes 80, Inverness 38: Fes leads by 42 points.
Live music & performing arts. Fes 32, Inverness 33: Inverness leads by 1 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Fes 70, Inverness 30: Fes leads by 40 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Fes and Inverness.

Your match

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

Fes
Best match
49match

Wins on culture and sights and prices with your weighting.

Inverness
40match

Wins on families 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.

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

Inverness in July

19 °Cdaytime high
11 °Cnight-time low
69 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
14 °Csea
17 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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FesInverness

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.

Inverness 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.

Inverness's sunshine is measured 43 km from the centre, at Kinloss.

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). Inverness: 2005-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Inverness / Dalcross (11.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureFesInverness
Official languageArabic, Standard Moroccan TamazightEnglish
CurrencyMoroccan Dirham (MAD)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsCE50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1UTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15112 or 999
Elevation408 m7 m
Main airportFes Saïss International Airport (FEZ)13 km from centre35 non-stop destinationsInverness Airport (INV)12 km from centre15 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureFesInverness
City population1,167,84247,380
People per km²3,6502,289
Museums within 10 km23
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °C-None

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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. 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.