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The blue gate of Bab Bou Jeloud, Fes
FesThe blue gate of Bab Bou Jeloud
The old town below the fortress, Salzburg
SalzburgThe old town below the fortress

Photos: Fes by Ideophagous, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Salzburg by Leonhard Niederwimmer, Pexels License.

Fes or Salzburg?

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
  • shopping
  • food and drink

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

Choose Salzburg for

  • live music and the arts
  • families
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Salzburg’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, Salzburg 35: Salzburg leads by 30 points.
Food & drink. Fes 62, Salzburg 45: Fes leads by 17 points.
Culture & sights. Fes 80, Salzburg 72: Fes leads by 8 points.
Nightlife. Fes 12, Salzburg 25: Salzburg leads by 13 points.
Nature & outdoors. Fes 52, Salzburg 86: Salzburg leads by 34 points.
Day trips. Fes 62, Salzburg 80: Salzburg leads by 18 points.
Good for families. Fes 22, Salzburg 65: Salzburg leads by 43 points.
Getting around. Fes 40, Salzburg 72: Salzburg leads by 32 points.
Shopping & style. Fes 68, Salzburg 48: Fes leads by 20 points.
Affordability. Fes 80, Salzburg 32: Fes leads by 48 points.
Live music & performing arts. Fes 32, Salzburg 80: Salzburg leads by 48 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Fes 70, Salzburg 55: Fes leads by 15 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Fes and Salzburg.

Your match

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

Fes
49match

Wins on prices and shopping with your weighting.

Salzburg
Best match
58match

Wins on live music and the arts and families 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

Salzburg in July

25 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
159 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
16 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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FesSalzburg

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). Salzburg: 1991-2020 normals, Salzburg (3.4 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureFesSalzburg
Official languageArabic, Standard Moroccan TamazightGerman, Austrian Sign Language
CurrencyMoroccan Dirham (MAD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15112
Elevation408 m424 m
Main airportFes Saïss International Airport (FEZ)13 km from centre35 non-stop destinationsSalzburg Airport (SZG)3 km from centre64 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureFesSalzburg
City population1,167,842155,021
People per km²3,6502,360
Museums within 10 km238
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km13

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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. 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.