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The blue gate of Bab Bou Jeloud, Fes
FesThe blue gate of Bab Bou Jeloud
Lower Broadway and its honky-tonks, Nashville
NashvilleLower Broadway and its honky-tonks

Photos: Fes by Ideophagous, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Nashville by Warren LeMay, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Fes or Nashville?

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

  • prices
  • wellness
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Nashville for

  • nightlife
  • live music and the arts
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Nashville’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, Nashville 14: Nashville leads by 9 points.
Food & drink. Fes and Nashville are level on 62.
Culture & sights. Fes 80, Nashville 50: Fes leads by 30 points.
Nightlife. Fes 12, Nashville 70: Nashville leads by 58 points.
Nature & outdoors. Fes 52, Nashville 46: Fes leads by 6 points.
Day trips. Fes 62, Nashville 52: Fes leads by 10 points.
Good for families. Fes 22, Nashville 55: Nashville leads by 33 points.
Getting around. Fes 40, Nashville 30: Fes leads by 10 points.
Shopping & style. Fes 68, Nashville 42: Fes leads by 26 points.
Affordability. Fes 80, Nashville 30: Fes leads by 50 points.
Live music & performing arts. Fes 32, Nashville 82: Nashville leads by 50 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Fes 70, Nashville 20: Fes leads by 50 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Fes and Nashville.

Your match

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

Fes
Best match
49match

Wins on prices and wellness with your weighting.

Nashville
46match

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

Nashville in July

32 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
104 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
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.

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). Nashville: 1991-2020 normals, Nashville Airport (9.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureFesNashville
Official languageArabic, Standard Moroccan Tamazight-
CurrencyMoroccan Dirham (MAD)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCE50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1UTC-6, UTC-5 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15911
Elevation408 m182 m
Main airportFes Saïss International Airport (FEZ)13 km from centre35 non-stop destinationsNashville International Airport (BNA)10 km from centre122 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureFesNashville
City population1,167,842689,447
People per km²3,650506
Museums within 10 km212
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10

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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.