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The blue gate of Bab Bou Jeloud, Fes
FesThe blue gate of Bab Bou Jeloud
The harbour seen from above, Marmaris
MarmarisThe harbour seen from above

Photos: Fes by Ideophagous, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Marmaris by Mstyslav Chernov, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Fes or Marmaris?

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
  • shopping
  • food and drink

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

Choose Marmaris for

  • beaches
  • nightlife
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Marmaris’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, Marmaris 80: Marmaris leads by 75 points.
Food & drink. Fes 62, Marmaris 40: Fes leads by 22 points.
Culture & sights. Fes 80, Marmaris 18: Fes leads by 62 points.
Nightlife. Fes 12, Marmaris 60: Marmaris leads by 48 points.
Nature & outdoors. Fes 52, Marmaris 72: Marmaris leads by 20 points.
Day trips. Fes 62, Marmaris 65: Marmaris leads by 3 points.
Good for families. Fes 22, Marmaris 62: Marmaris leads by 40 points.
Getting around. Fes 40, Marmaris 55: Marmaris leads by 15 points.
Shopping & style. Fes 68, Marmaris 38: Fes leads by 30 points.
Affordability. Fes 80, Marmaris 62: Fes leads by 18 points.
Live music & performing arts. Fes 32, Marmaris 12: Fes leads by 20 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Fes 70, Marmaris 50: Fes leads by 20 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Fes and Marmaris.

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 shopping with your weighting.

Marmaris
51match

Wins on beaches and nightlife 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

Marmaris in July

32 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
8 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
25 °Csea
14 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.

Marmaris's temperatures are measured 49 km from the centre, at Dalaman.

Marmaris 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). Marmaris: 2000-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Dalaman (48.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureFesMarmaris
Official languageArabic, Standard Moroccan TamazightTurkish
CurrencyMoroccan Dirham (MAD)Turkish Lira (TRY)
SocketsCE50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1UTC+3
Emergency numberPolice 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15112
Elevation408 m7 m
Main airportFes Saïss International Airport (FEZ)13 km from centre35 non-stop destinationsDalaman International Airport (DLM)49 km from centre61 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureFesMarmaris
City population1,167,84297,818
People per km²3,650111
Museums within 10 km21
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Swim season, months above 21 °C-6 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. 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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.