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The blue gate of Bab Bou Jeloud, Fes
FesThe blue gate of Bab Bou Jeloud
The Latin Bridge over the Miljacka, Sarajevo
SarajevoThe Latin Bridge over the Miljacka

Photos: Fes by Ideophagous, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Sarajevo by Tumi-1983, CC0.

Fes or Sarajevo?

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
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Sarajevo for

  • nightlife
  • nature and the outdoors
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Sarajevo’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, Sarajevo 6: Sarajevo leads by 1 points.
Food & drink. Fes 62, Sarajevo 60: Fes leads by 2 points.
Culture & sights. Fes 80, Sarajevo 64: Fes leads by 16 points.
Nightlife. Fes 12, Sarajevo 44: Sarajevo leads by 32 points.
Nature & outdoors. Fes 52, Sarajevo 78: Sarajevo leads by 26 points.
Day trips. Fes and Sarajevo are level on 62.
Good for families. Fes 22, Sarajevo 38: Sarajevo leads by 16 points.
Getting around. Fes 40, Sarajevo 60: Sarajevo leads by 20 points.
Shopping & style. Fes 68, Sarajevo 40: Fes leads by 28 points.
Affordability. Fes and Sarajevo are level on 80.
Live music & performing arts. Fes 32, Sarajevo 40: Sarajevo leads by 8 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Fes 70, Sarajevo 42: Fes leads by 28 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Fes and Sarajevo.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Fes
49match

Wins on shopping and wellness with your weighting.

Sarajevo
51match

Wins on nightlife and nature and the outdoors 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

Sarajevo in July

28 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
75 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
15 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). Sarajevo: 1991-2020 normals, Sarajevo-Bejelave (2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureFesSarajevo
Official languageArabic, Standard Moroccan TamazightCroatian, Serbian, Bosnian
CurrencyMoroccan Dirham (MAD)Convertible Mark (BAM)
SocketsCE50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15112
Elevation408 m518 m
Main airportFes Saïss International Airport (FEZ)13 km from centre35 non-stop destinationsSarajevo International Airport (SJJ)7 km from centre38 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureFesSarajevo
City population1,167,842275,524
People per km²3,6501,947
Museums within 10 km225
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11

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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. 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.