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The blue gate of Bab Bou Jeloud, Fes
FesThe blue gate of Bab Bou Jeloud
The golden Dome of the Rock, Jerusalem
JerusalemThe golden Dome of the Rock

Photos: Fes by Ideophagous, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Jerusalem by Yasir Gürbüz, Pexels License.

Fes or Jerusalem?

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
  • shopping

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

Choose Jerusalem for

  • beaches
  • families
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Jerusalem’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, Jerusalem 40: Jerusalem leads by 35 points.
Food & drink. Fes 62, Jerusalem 66: Jerusalem leads by 4 points.
Culture & sights. Fes 80, Jerusalem 92: Jerusalem leads by 12 points.
Nightlife. Fes 12, Jerusalem 38: Jerusalem leads by 26 points.
Nature & outdoors. Fes 52, Jerusalem 60: Jerusalem leads by 8 points.
Day trips. Fes 62, Jerusalem 80: Jerusalem leads by 18 points.
Good for families. Fes 22, Jerusalem 52: Jerusalem leads by 30 points.
Getting around. Fes 40, Jerusalem 55: Jerusalem leads by 15 points.
Shopping & style. Fes 68, Jerusalem 48: Fes leads by 20 points.
Affordability. Fes 80, Jerusalem 20: Fes leads by 60 points.
Live music & performing arts. Fes 32, Jerusalem 40: Jerusalem leads by 8 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Fes 70, Jerusalem 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 Jerusalem.

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.

Jerusalem
Best match
53match

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

Jerusalem in July

30 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
27 °Csea
14 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.

Jerusalem 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.

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). Jerusalem: 1991-2020 normals, Jerusalem (1.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureFesJerusalem
Official languageArabic, Standard Moroccan TamazightHebrew
CurrencyMoroccan Dirham (MAD)New Israeli Sheqel (ILS)
SocketsCE50 HzCHM230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1UTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15Police 100, fire 102
Elevation408 m754 m
Main airportFes Saïss International Airport (FEZ)13 km from centre35 non-stop destinationsBen Gurion International Airport (TLV)42 km from centre111 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days-

By the numbers

MeasureFesJerusalem
City population1,167,8421,050,151
People per km²3,6508,374
Museums within 10 km269
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km17
Swim season, months above 21 °C-7 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.