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The blue gate of Bab Bou Jeloud, Fes
FesThe blue gate of Bab Bou Jeloud
The railway viaduct over the canal, Castlefield, Manchester
ManchesterThe railway viaduct over the canal, Castlefield

Photos: Fes by Ideophagous, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Manchester by IIya Kuzhekin, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

Fes or Manchester?

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
  • prices
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Manchester for

  • nightlife
  • live music and the arts
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Manchester’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, Manchester 9: Manchester leads by 4 points.
Food & drink. Fes 62, Manchester 51: Fes leads by 11 points.
Culture & sights. Fes 80, Manchester 50: Fes leads by 30 points.
Nightlife. Fes 12, Manchester 72: Manchester leads by 60 points.
Nature & outdoors. Fes 52, Manchester 64: Manchester leads by 12 points.
Day trips. Fes 62, Manchester 77: Manchester leads by 15 points.
Good for families. Fes 22, Manchester 58: Manchester leads by 36 points.
Getting around. Fes 40, Manchester 68: Manchester leads by 28 points.
Shopping & style. Fes 68, Manchester 62: Fes leads by 6 points.
Affordability. Fes 80, Manchester 42: Fes leads by 38 points.
Live music & performing arts. Fes 32, Manchester 74: Manchester leads by 42 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Fes 70, Manchester 15: Fes leads by 55 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Fes and Manchester.

Your match

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

Fes
49match

Wins on wellness and prices with your weighting.

Manchester
Best match
54match

Wins on nightlife and live music and the arts 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

Manchester in July

21 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
60 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
16 °Csea
17 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). Manchester: 1991-2020 normals, Manchester Airport (14.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureFesManchester
Official languageArabic, Standard Moroccan TamazightEnglish
CurrencyMoroccan Dirham (MAD)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsCE50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1UTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15112 or 999
Elevation408 m38 m
Main airportFes Saïss International Airport (FEZ)13 km from centre35 non-stop destinationsManchester Airport (MAN)15 km from centre211 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureFesManchester
City population1,167,842547,627
People per km²3,6504,737
Museums within 10 km228
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Swim season, months above 21 °C-None

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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.