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The blue gate of Bab Bou Jeloud, Fes
FesThe blue gate of Bab Bou Jeloud
The Outback, with the Tenmile Range in the distance, Keystone
KeystoneThe Outback, with the Tenmile Range in the distance

Photos: Fes by Ideophagous, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Keystone by Rudi Riet, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Fes or Keystone?

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
  • shopping

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

Choose Keystone for

  • families
  • nature and the outdoors
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Keystone’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 and Keystone are level on 5.
Food & drink. Fes 62, Keystone 27: Fes leads by 35 points.
Culture & sights. Fes 80, Keystone 7: Fes leads by 73 points.
Nightlife. Fes and Keystone are level on 12.
Nature & outdoors. Fes 52, Keystone 93: Keystone leads by 41 points.
Day trips. Fes 62, Keystone 55: Fes leads by 7 points.
Good for families. Fes 22, Keystone 66: Keystone leads by 44 points.
Getting around. Fes 40, Keystone 50: Keystone leads by 10 points.
Shopping & style. Fes 68, Keystone 22: Fes leads by 46 points.
Affordability. Fes 80, Keystone 12: Fes leads by 68 points.
Live music & performing arts. Fes 32, Keystone 22: Fes leads by 10 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Fes 70, Keystone 32: Fes leads by 38 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Fes and Keystone.

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.

Keystone
34match

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
14 hdaylight a day

Keystone in July

21 °Cdaytime high
5 °Cnight-time low
39 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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FesKeystone

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.

Keystone's temperatures are measured 51 km from the centre, at Leadville / Stringtown.

Keystone's station stands 232 m above the city centre, so the centre is likely a little warmer than the figures say.

Keystone 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). Keystone: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Leadville / Stringtown (50.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureFesKeystone
Official languageArabic, Standard Moroccan Tamazight-
CurrencyMoroccan Dirham (MAD)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCE50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1UTC-7, UTC-6 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15911
Elevation408 m2,796 m
Main airportFes Saïss International Airport (FEZ)13 km from centre35 non-stop destinationsDenver International Airport (DEN)116 km from centre231 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureFesKeystone
City population1,167,8421,369
People per km²3,65013
Museums within 10 km20
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10

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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. 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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.