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The blue gate of Bab Bou Jeloud, Fes
FesThe blue gate of Bab Bou Jeloud
The Metropolitan Cathedral on the Zócalo, Mexico City
Mexico CityThe Metropolitan Cathedral on the Zócalo

Photos: Fes by Ideophagous, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Mexico City by Oscar Dominguez, Pexels License.

Fes or Mexico City?

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
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Mexico City for

  • nightlife
  • live music and the arts
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Mexico City’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 and Mexico City are level on 5.
Food & drink. Fes 62, Mexico City 90: Mexico City leads by 28 points.
Culture & sights. Fes 80, Mexico City 88: Mexico City leads by 8 points.
Nightlife. Fes 12, Mexico City 80: Mexico City leads by 68 points.
Nature & outdoors. Fes 52, Mexico City 50: Fes leads by 2 points.
Day trips. Fes 62, Mexico City 75: Mexico City leads by 13 points.
Good for families. Fes 22, Mexico City 58: Mexico City leads by 36 points.
Getting around. Fes 40, Mexico City 50: Mexico City leads by 10 points.
Shopping & style. Fes 68, Mexico City 76: Mexico City leads by 8 points.
Affordability. Fes 80, Mexico City 75: Fes leads by 5 points.
Live music & performing arts. Fes 32, Mexico City 72: Mexico City leads by 40 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Fes 70, Mexico City 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 Mexico City.

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.

Mexico City
Best match
63match

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
14 hdaylight a day

Mexico City in July

25 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
176 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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FesMexico City

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). Mexico City: 1991-2020 normals, Mexico Central, D. F. (7.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureFesMexico City
Official languageArabic, Standard Moroccan TamazightSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyMoroccan Dirham (MAD)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsCE50 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1UTC-6
Emergency numberPolice 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15911
Elevation408 m2,240 m
Main airportFes Saïss International Airport (FEZ)13 km from centre35 non-stop destinationsMexico City Benito Juárez International Airport (MEX)7 km from centre109 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureFesMexico City
City population1,167,8429,209,944
People per km²3,6506,202
Museums within 10 km2108
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km16

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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. 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.