Photos: Fes by Ideophagous, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; San Sebastian by Guérin Nicolas, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.
Fes or San Sebastian?
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 San Sebastian for
- beaches
- families
- getting around
What lies behind each score is written up on San Sebastian’s own page.
Scoreboard
Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.
What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Fes and San Sebastian.
Your match
Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.
Wins on prices and culture and sights with your weighting.
Wins on beaches 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
San Sebastian in July
Daytime high, °C
Rainfall in the month, mm
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.
San Sebastian's station stands 252 m above the city centre, so the centre is likely a little warmer than the figures say.
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). San Sebastian: 1991-2020 normals, San Sebastian / Igueldo (6.1 km from centre).
Before you go
| Measure | Fes | San Sebastian |
|---|---|---|
| Official language | Arabic, Standard Moroccan Tamazight | Spanish |
| Currency | Moroccan Dirham (MAD) | Euro (EUR) |
| Sockets | CE50 Hz | CF230 V, 50 Hz |
| Driving side | Right | Right |
| Time zone | UTC+1 | UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer |
| Emergency number | Police 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15 | 112 |
| Elevation | 408 m | 6 m |
| Main airport | Fes Saïss International Airport (FEZ)13 km from centre35 non-stop destinations | San Sebastián Airport (EAS)16 km from centre11 non-stop destinations |
| Public holidays this year | 11 days | 13 days |
By the numbers
| Measure | Fes | San Sebastian |
|---|---|---|
| City population | 1,167,842 | 189,866 |
| People per km² | 3,650 | 3,118 |
| Museums within 10 km | 2 | 14 |
| UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km | 1 | 3 |
| Swim season, months above 21 °C | - | 2 months |
Where else could you go?
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