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The blue gate of Bab Bou Jeloud, Fes
FesThe blue gate of Bab Bou Jeloud
The House of the Blackheads at dusk, Riga
RigaThe House of the Blackheads at dusk

Photos: Fes by Ideophagous, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Riga by Diliff, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Fes or Riga?

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

  • shopping
  • wellness
  • prices

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

Choose Riga for

  • nightlife
  • beaches
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Riga’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, Riga 40: Riga leads by 35 points.
Food & drink. Fes 62, Riga 52: Fes leads by 10 points.
Culture & sights. Fes 80, Riga 66: Fes leads by 14 points.
Nightlife. Fes 12, Riga 52: Riga leads by 40 points.
Nature & outdoors. Fes 52, Riga 55: Riga leads by 3 points.
Day trips. Fes 62, Riga 60: Fes leads by 2 points.
Good for families. Fes 22, Riga 50: Riga leads by 28 points.
Getting around. Fes 40, Riga 68: Riga leads by 28 points.
Shopping & style. Fes 68, Riga 45: Fes leads by 23 points.
Affordability. Fes 80, Riga 62: Fes leads by 18 points.
Live music & performing arts. Fes 32, Riga 65: Riga leads by 33 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Fes 70, Riga 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 Riga.

Your match

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

Fes
49match

Wins on shopping and wellness with your weighting.

Riga
Best match
55match

Wins on nightlife and beaches 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

Riga in July

24 °Cdaytime high
15 °Cnight-time low
87 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
18 °Csea
17 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). Riga: 1991-2020 normals, Riga (4.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureFesRiga
Official languageArabic, Standard Moroccan TamazightLatvian
CurrencyMoroccan Dirham (MAD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1UTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15112
Elevation408 m6 m
Main airportFes Saïss International Airport (FEZ)13 km from centre35 non-stop destinationsRiga International Airport (RIX)9 km from centre93 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days-

By the numbers

MeasureFesRiga
City population1,167,842588,911
People per km²3,650-
Museums within 10 km212
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. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.