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The blue gate of Bab Bou Jeloud, Fes
FesThe blue gate of Bab Bou Jeloud
The city from Hallgrímskirkja, Reykjavik
ReykjavikThe city from Hallgrímskirkja

Photos: Fes by Ideophagous, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Reykjavik by Atlantic Ambience, Pexels License.

Fes or Reykjavik?

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
  • shopping

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

Choose Reykjavik for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • nightlife
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Reykjavik’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, Reykjavik 12: Reykjavik leads by 7 points.
Food & drink. Fes 62, Reykjavik 42: Fes leads by 20 points.
Culture & sights. Fes 80, Reykjavik 25: Fes leads by 55 points.
Nightlife. Fes 12, Reykjavik 45: Reykjavik leads by 33 points.
Nature & outdoors. Fes 52, Reykjavik 92: Reykjavik leads by 40 points.
Day trips. Fes 62, Reykjavik 35: Fes leads by 27 points.
Good for families. Fes 22, Reykjavik 55: Reykjavik leads by 33 points.
Getting around. Fes 40, Reykjavik 55: Reykjavik leads by 15 points.
Shopping & style. Fes 68, Reykjavik 25: Fes leads by 43 points.
Affordability. Fes 80, Reykjavik 6: Fes leads by 74 points.
Live music & performing arts. Fes 32, Reykjavik 45: Reykjavik leads by 13 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Fes 70, Reykjavik 88: Reykjavik leads by 18 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Fes and Reykjavik.

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.

Reykjavik
44match

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
No seasea
14 hdaylight a day

Reykjavik in July

15 °Cdaytime high
9 °Cnight-time low
50 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
11 °Csea
20 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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FesReykjavik

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). Reykjavik: 1991-2020 normals, Reykjavik (2.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureFesReykjavik
Official languageArabic, Standard Moroccan TamazightIcelandic
CurrencyMoroccan Dirham (MAD)Iceland Krona (ISK)
SocketsCE50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1UTC
Emergency numberPolice 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15112
Elevation408 m8 m
Main airportFes Saïss International Airport (FEZ)13 km from centre35 non-stop destinationsKeflavik International Airport (KEF)37 km from centre88 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureFesReykjavik
City population1,167,842138,772
People per km²3,650569
Museums within 10 km223
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Swim season, months above 21 °C-None

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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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.