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The blue gate of Bab Bou Jeloud, Fes
FesThe blue gate of Bab Bou Jeloud
Valletta from the water, Valletta
VallettaValletta from the water

Photos: Fes by Ideophagous, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Valletta by Pho Tomass, Pexels License.

Fes or Valletta?

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
  • shopping
  • prices

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

Choose Valletta for

  • beaches
  • families
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Valletta’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, Valletta 68: Valletta leads by 63 points.
Food & drink. Fes 62, Valletta 55: Fes leads by 7 points.
Culture & sights. Fes 80, Valletta 76: Fes leads by 4 points.
Nightlife. Fes 12, Valletta 46: Valletta leads by 34 points.
Nature & outdoors. Fes 52, Valletta 56: Valletta leads by 4 points.
Day trips. Fes 62, Valletta 76: Valletta leads by 14 points.
Good for families. Fes 22, Valletta 58: Valletta leads by 36 points.
Getting around. Fes 40, Valletta 62: Valletta leads by 22 points.
Shopping & style. Fes 68, Valletta 38: Fes leads by 30 points.
Affordability. Fes 80, Valletta 50: Fes leads by 30 points.
Live music & performing arts. Fes 32, Valletta 44: Valletta leads by 12 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Fes 70, Valletta 32: Fes leads by 38 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Fes and Valletta.

Your match

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

Fes
49match

Wins on wellness and shopping with your weighting.

Valletta
Best match
55match

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

36 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
No seasea
14 hdaylight a day

Valletta in July

32 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
25 °Csea
14 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). Valletta: 1991-2020 normals, Luqa (5.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureFesValletta
Official languageArabic, Standard Moroccan TamazightEnglish, Maltese
CurrencyMoroccan Dirham (MAD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15112
Elevation408 m56 m
Main airportFes Saïss International Airport (FEZ)13 km from centre35 non-stop destinationsMalta International Airport (MLA)6 km from centre113 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureFesValletta
City population1,167,8425,197
People per km²3,6506,496
Museums within 10 km216
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km13
Swim season, months above 21 °C-6 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.