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The blue gate of Bab Bou Jeloud, Fes
FesThe blue gate of Bab Bou Jeloud
The Petronas Twin Towers from KLCC Park, Kuala Lumpur
Kuala LumpurThe Petronas Twin Towers from KLCC Park

Photos: Fes by Ideophagous, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Kuala Lumpur by Brownc, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Fes or Kuala Lumpur?

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
  • culture and sights
  • day trips

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

Choose Kuala Lumpur for

  • nightlife
  • families
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on Kuala Lumpur’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, Kuala Lumpur 12: Kuala Lumpur leads by 7 points.
Food & drink. Fes 62, Kuala Lumpur 82: Kuala Lumpur leads by 20 points.
Culture & sights. Fes 80, Kuala Lumpur 57: Fes leads by 23 points.
Nightlife. Fes 12, Kuala Lumpur 54: Kuala Lumpur leads by 42 points.
Nature & outdoors. Fes 52, Kuala Lumpur 47: Fes leads by 5 points.
Day trips. Fes 62, Kuala Lumpur 52: Fes leads by 10 points.
Good for families. Fes 22, Kuala Lumpur 64: Kuala Lumpur leads by 42 points.
Getting around. Fes 40, Kuala Lumpur 57: Kuala Lumpur leads by 17 points.
Shopping & style. Fes 68, Kuala Lumpur 66: Fes leads by 2 points.
Affordability. Fes 80, Kuala Lumpur 75: Fes leads by 5 points.
Live music & performing arts. Fes 32, Kuala Lumpur 42: Kuala Lumpur leads by 10 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Fes 70, Kuala Lumpur 44: Fes leads by 26 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Fes and Kuala Lumpur.

Your match

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

Fes
49match

Wins on wellness and culture and sights with your weighting.

Kuala Lumpur
Best match
54match

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

Kuala Lumpur in July

33 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
139 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
30 °Csea
12 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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FesKuala Lumpur

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.

Kuala Lumpur's temperatures are measured 46 km from the centre, at Sepang/KL International Airport.

Kuala Lumpur 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). Kuala Lumpur: 1991-2020 normals, Sepang/KL International Airport (46.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureFesKuala Lumpur
Official languageArabic, Standard Moroccan TamazightMalay
CurrencyMoroccan Dirham (MAD)Malaysian Ringgit (MYR)
SocketsCE50 HzG240 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1UTC+8
Emergency numberPolice 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15999
Elevation408 m50 m
Main airportFes Saïss International Airport (FEZ)13 km from centre35 non-stop destinationsKuala Lumpur International Airport (KUL)45 km from centre146 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days-

By the numbers

MeasureFesKuala Lumpur
City population1,167,8429,000,280
People per km²3,65036,932
Museums within 10 km225
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
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.