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The blue gate of Bab Bou Jeloud, Fes
FesThe blue gate of Bab Bou Jeloud
The City of Arts and Sciences, Valencia
ValenciaThe City of Arts and Sciences

Photos: Fes by Ideophagous, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Valencia by Francesco Ungaro, Pexels License.

Fes or Valencia?

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
  • prices
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Valencia for

  • beaches
  • nightlife
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Valencia’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, Valencia 78: Valencia leads by 73 points.
Food & drink. Fes 62, Valencia 74: Valencia leads by 12 points.
Culture & sights. Fes 80, Valencia 68: Fes leads by 12 points.
Nightlife. Fes 12, Valencia 66: Valencia leads by 54 points.
Nature & outdoors. Fes 52, Valencia 60: Valencia leads by 8 points.
Day trips. Fes 62, Valencia 70: Valencia leads by 8 points.
Good for families. Fes 22, Valencia 75: Valencia leads by 53 points.
Getting around. Fes 40, Valencia 76: Valencia leads by 36 points.
Shopping & style. Fes 68, Valencia 57: Fes leads by 11 points.
Affordability. Fes 80, Valencia 57: Fes leads by 23 points.
Live music & performing arts. Fes 32, Valencia 55: Valencia leads by 23 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Fes 70, Valencia 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 Valencia.

Your match

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

Fes
49match

Wins on wellness and prices with your weighting.

Valencia
Best match
65match

Wins on beaches and nightlife 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

Valencia in July

30 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
7 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
25 °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). Valencia: 1991-2020 normals, Valencia (1.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureFesValencia
Official languageArabic, Standard Moroccan TamazightSpanish
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 m15 m
Main airportFes Saïss International Airport (FEZ)13 km from centre35 non-stop destinationsValencia Airport (VLC)9 km from centre109 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureFesValencia
City population1,167,842840,792
People per km²3,6506,242
Museums within 10 km245
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
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.