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The blue gate of Bab Bou Jeloud, Fes
FesThe blue gate of Bab Bou Jeloud
Palm Springs

Photos: Fes by Ideophagous, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Fes or Palm Springs?

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
  • culture and sights
  • day trips

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

Choose Palm Springs for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • nightlife
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Palm Springs’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, Palm Springs 7: Palm Springs leads by 2 points.
Food & drink. Fes 62, Palm Springs 40: Fes leads by 22 points.
Culture & sights. Fes 80, Palm Springs 42: Fes leads by 38 points.
Nightlife. Fes 12, Palm Springs 36: Palm Springs leads by 24 points.
Nature & outdoors. Fes 52, Palm Springs 78: Palm Springs leads by 26 points.
Day trips. Fes 62, Palm Springs 38: Fes leads by 24 points.
Good for families. Fes 22, Palm Springs 40: Palm Springs leads by 18 points.
Getting around. Fes 40, Palm Springs 22: Fes leads by 18 points.
Shopping & style. Fes 68, Palm Springs 44: Fes leads by 24 points.
Affordability. Fes 80, Palm Springs 32: Fes leads by 48 points.
Live music & performing arts. Fes 32, Palm Springs 40: Palm Springs leads by 8 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Fes 70, Palm Springs 80: Palm Springs leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Fes and Palm Springs.

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 culture and sights with your weighting.

Palm Springs
42match

Wins on nature and the outdoors 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
14 hdaylight a day

Palm Springs in July

42 °Cdaytime high
28 °Cnight-time low
5 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.

Palm Springs 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). Palm Springs: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Palm Springs (2.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureFesPalm Springs
Official languageArabic, Standard Moroccan Tamazight-
CurrencyMoroccan Dirham (MAD)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCE50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1UTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15911
Elevation408 m146 m
Main airportFes Saïss International Airport (FEZ)13 km from centre35 non-stop destinationsPalm Springs International Airport (PSP)2 km from centre29 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureFesPalm Springs
City population1,167,84244,575
People per km²3,650181
Museums within 10 km23
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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.