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The blue gate of Bab Bou Jeloud, Fes
FesThe blue gate of Bab Bou Jeloud
The Manila Central Post Office on the Pasig, Manila
ManilaThe Manila Central Post Office on the Pasig

Photos: Fes by Ideophagous, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Manila by Kenneth Surillo, Pexels License.

Fes or Manila?

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 Manila for

  • nightlife
  • families
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Manila’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, Manila 12: Manila leads by 7 points.
Food & drink. Fes 62, Manila 64: Manila leads by 2 points.
Culture & sights. Fes 80, Manila 54: Fes leads by 26 points.
Nightlife. Fes 12, Manila 64: Manila leads by 52 points.
Nature & outdoors. Fes 52, Manila 40: Fes leads by 12 points.
Day trips. Fes 62, Manila 42: Fes leads by 20 points.
Good for families. Fes 22, Manila 42: Manila leads by 20 points.
Getting around. Fes 40, Manila 26: Fes leads by 14 points.
Shopping & style. Fes 68, Manila 60: Fes leads by 8 points.
Affordability. Fes 80, Manila 77: Fes leads by 3 points.
Live music & performing arts. Fes 32, Manila 50: Manila leads by 18 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Fes 70, Manila 40: Fes leads by 30 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Fes and Manila.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Fes
49match

Wins on wellness and culture and sights with your weighting.

Manila
48match

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

Manila in July

32 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
487 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
29 °Csea
13 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). Manila: 1991-2020 normals, Science Garden (6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureFesManila
Official languageArabic, Standard Moroccan TamazightEnglish, Filipino, Taglish
CurrencyMoroccan Dirham (MAD)Philippine Peso (PHP)
SocketsCE50 HzABC220 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1UTC+8
Emergency numberPolice 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15911
Elevation408 m9 m
Main airportFes Saïss International Airport (FEZ)13 km from centre35 non-stop destinationsNinoy Aquino International Airport (MNL)11 km from centre90 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days18 days

By the numbers

MeasureFesManila
City population1,167,8421,902,590
People per km²3,65076,104
Museums within 10 km227
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.