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The blue gate of Bab Bou Jeloud, Fes
FesThe blue gate of Bab Bou Jeloud
The Cloth Hall on the Main Square, Krakow
KrakowThe Cloth Hall on the Main Square

Photos: Fes by Ideophagous, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Krakow by Jakub Hałun, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Fes or Krakow?

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

  • wellness
  • shopping
  • prices

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

Choose Krakow for

  • nightlife
  • families
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Krakow’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, Krakow 9: Krakow leads by 4 points.
Food & drink. Fes 62, Krakow 55: Fes leads by 7 points.
Culture & sights. Fes 80, Krakow 77: Fes leads by 3 points.
Nightlife. Fes 12, Krakow 68: Krakow leads by 56 points.
Nature & outdoors. Fes 52, Krakow 62: Krakow leads by 10 points.
Day trips. Fes 62, Krakow 76: Krakow leads by 14 points.
Good for families. Fes 22, Krakow 58: Krakow leads by 36 points.
Getting around. Fes 40, Krakow 74: Krakow leads by 34 points.
Shopping & style. Fes 68, Krakow 48: Fes leads by 20 points.
Affordability. Fes 80, Krakow 72: Fes leads by 8 points.
Live music & performing arts. Fes 32, Krakow 55: Krakow leads by 23 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Fes 70, Krakow 36: Fes leads by 34 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Fes and Krakow.

Your match

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

Fes
49match

Wins on wellness and shopping with your weighting.

Krakow
Best match
58match

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
14 hdaylight a day

Krakow in July

25 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
100 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
16 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). Krakow: 1991-2020 normals, Krakow (10.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureFesKrakow
Official languageArabic, Standard Moroccan TamazightPolish
CurrencyMoroccan Dirham (MAD)Zloty (PLN)
SocketsCE50 HzCE50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15112
Elevation408 m219 m
Main airportFes Saïss International Airport (FEZ)13 km from centre35 non-stop destinationsKraków John Paul II International Airport (KRK)11 km from centre132 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureFesKrakow
City population1,167,842804,237
People per km²3,6502,459
Museums within 10 km2113
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km14

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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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.