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The blue gate of Bab Bou Jeloud, Fes
FesThe blue gate of Bab Bou Jeloud
Fishing boats in the harbour, La Spezia
La SpeziaFishing boats in the harbour

Photos: Fes by Ideophagous, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; La Spezia by Irina Balashova, Pexels License.

Fes or La Spezia?

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
  • shopping

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

Choose La Spezia for

  • beaches
  • getting around
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on La Spezia’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, La Spezia 60: La Spezia leads by 55 points.
Food & drink. Fes 62, La Spezia 58: Fes leads by 4 points.
Culture & sights. Fes 80, La Spezia 40: Fes leads by 40 points.
Nightlife. Fes 12, La Spezia 28: La Spezia leads by 16 points.
Nature & outdoors. Fes 52, La Spezia 79: La Spezia leads by 27 points.
Day trips. Fes 62, La Spezia 87: La Spezia leads by 25 points.
Good for families. Fes 22, La Spezia 48: La Spezia leads by 26 points.
Getting around. Fes 40, La Spezia 70: La Spezia leads by 30 points.
Shopping & style. Fes 68, La Spezia 35: Fes leads by 33 points.
Affordability. Fes 80, La Spezia 50: Fes leads by 30 points.
Live music & performing arts. Fes 32, La Spezia 28: Fes leads by 4 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Fes 70, La Spezia 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 La Spezia.

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.

La Spezia
51match

Wins on beaches and getting around 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

La Spezia in July

30 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
20 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
24 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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FesLa Spezia

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.

La Spezia's temperatures are measured 65 km from the centre, at Pisa / S. Giusto.

La Spezia 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). La Spezia: 1991-2020 normals, Pisa / S. Giusto (64.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureFesLa Spezia
Official languageArabic, Standard Moroccan TamazightItalian
CurrencyMoroccan Dirham (MAD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15112
Elevation408 m3 m
Main airportFes Saïss International Airport (FEZ)13 km from centre35 non-stop destinationsPisa International Airport (PSA)65 km from centre82 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureFesLa Spezia
City population1,167,84292,119
People per km²3,6501,792
Museums within 10 km212
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Swim season, months above 21 °C-4 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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.