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The blue gate of Bab Bou Jeloud, Fes
FesThe blue gate of Bab Bou Jeloud
The Istiqlal Mosque, Jakarta
JakartaThe Istiqlal Mosque

Photos: Fes by Ideophagous, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Jakarta by Antonyus Bunjamin, Pexels License.

Fes or Jakarta?

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
  • wellness
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Jakarta for

  • nightlife
  • families
  • beaches

What lies behind each score is written up on Jakarta’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, Jakarta 28: Jakarta leads by 23 points.
Food & drink. Fes 62, Jakarta 78: Jakarta leads by 16 points.
Culture & sights. Fes 80, Jakarta 48: Fes leads by 32 points.
Nightlife. Fes 12, Jakarta 66: Jakarta leads by 54 points.
Nature & outdoors. Fes 52, Jakarta 30: Fes leads by 22 points.
Day trips. Fes 62, Jakarta 45: Fes leads by 17 points.
Good for families. Fes 22, Jakarta 50: Jakarta leads by 28 points.
Getting around. Fes 40, Jakarta 36: Fes leads by 4 points.
Shopping & style. Fes 68, Jakarta 64: Fes leads by 4 points.
Affordability. Fes and Jakarta are level on 80.
Live music & performing arts. Fes 32, Jakarta 42: Jakarta leads by 10 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Fes 70, Jakarta 46: Fes leads by 24 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Fes and Jakarta.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Fes
49match

Wins on culture and sights and wellness with your weighting.

Jakarta
51match

Wins on nightlife 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

Jakarta in July

32 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
85 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
29 °Csea
12 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). Jakarta: 1991-2020 normals, Jakarta / Observatory (1.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureFesJakarta
Official languageArabic, Standard Moroccan TamazightIndonesian
CurrencyMoroccan Dirham (MAD)Rupiah (IDR)
SocketsCE50 HzCF50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1UTC+7
Emergency numberPolice 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15112
Elevation408 m91 m
Main airportFes Saïss International Airport (FEZ)13 km from centre35 non-stop destinationsSoekarno-Hatta International Airport (CGK)20 km from centre89 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days-

By the numbers

MeasureFesJakarta
City population1,167,84211,135,191
People per km²3,65016,821
Museums within 10 km244
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.