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The blue gate of Bab Bou Jeloud, Fes
FesThe blue gate of Bab Bou Jeloud
The Great Mosque with the mountains behind, Tirana
TiranaThe Great Mosque with the mountains behind

Photos: Fes by Ideophagous, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Tirana by Bjørn Christian Tørrissen, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Fes or Tirana?

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

  • wellness
  • culture and sights
  • shopping

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

Choose Tirana for

  • nightlife
  • beaches
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Tirana’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, Tirana 46: Tirana leads by 41 points.
Food & drink. Fes 62, Tirana 57: Fes leads by 5 points.
Culture & sights. Fes 80, Tirana 42: Fes leads by 38 points.
Nightlife. Fes 12, Tirana 58: Tirana leads by 46 points.
Nature & outdoors. Fes 52, Tirana 62: Tirana leads by 10 points.
Day trips. Fes 62, Tirana 64: Tirana leads by 2 points.
Good for families. Fes 22, Tirana 40: Tirana leads by 18 points.
Getting around. Fes 40, Tirana 54: Tirana leads by 14 points.
Shopping & style. Fes 68, Tirana 32: Fes leads by 36 points.
Affordability. Fes 80, Tirana 76: Fes leads by 4 points.
Live music & performing arts. Fes and Tirana are level on 32.
Wellness & relaxation. Fes 70, Tirana 27: Fes leads by 43 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Fes and Tirana.

Your match

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

Too close to call, level with your weighting

Fes
49match

Wins on wellness and culture and sights with your weighting.

Tirana
49match

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

Tirana in July

31 °Cdaytime high
17 °Cnight-time low
43 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
24 °Csea
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). Tirana: 1961-1990 normals, Tirana (3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureFesTirana
Official languageArabic, Standard Moroccan TamazightAlbanian
CurrencyMoroccan Dirham (MAD)Lek (ALL)
SocketsCE50 HzCF220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15112
Elevation408 m110 m
Main airportFes Saïss International Airport (FEZ)13 km from centre35 non-stop destinationsTirana International Airport Mother Teresa (TIA)13 km from centre121 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureFesTirana
City population1,167,842389,323
People per km²3,6509,314
Museums within 10 km211
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °C-5 months

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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.