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The blue gate of Bab Bou Jeloud, Fes
FesThe blue gate of Bab Bou Jeloud
Victoria Falls and its gorge from a helicopter, Victoria Falls
Victoria FallsVictoria Falls and its gorge from a helicopter

Photos: Fes by Ideophagous, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Victoria Falls by Murray Foubister, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Fes or Victoria Falls?

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

  • culture and sights
  • shopping
  • prices

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

Choose Victoria Falls for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • families
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Victoria Falls’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, Victoria Falls 7: Victoria Falls leads by 2 points.
Food & drink. Fes 62, Victoria Falls 24: Fes leads by 38 points.
Culture & sights. Fes 80, Victoria Falls 12: Fes leads by 68 points.
Nightlife. Fes 12, Victoria Falls 8: Fes leads by 4 points.
Nature & outdoors. Fes 52, Victoria Falls 94: Victoria Falls leads by 42 points.
Day trips. Fes 62, Victoria Falls 22: Fes leads by 40 points.
Good for families. Fes 22, Victoria Falls 38: Victoria Falls leads by 16 points.
Getting around. Fes 40, Victoria Falls 45: Victoria Falls leads by 5 points.
Shopping & style. Fes 68, Victoria Falls 18: Fes leads by 50 points.
Affordability. Fes 80, Victoria Falls 32: Fes leads by 48 points.
Live music & performing arts. Fes 32, Victoria Falls 10: Fes leads by 22 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Fes 70, Victoria Falls 34: Fes leads by 36 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Fes and Victoria Falls.

Your match

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

Fes
Best match
49match

Wins on culture and sights and shopping with your weighting.

Victoria Falls
29match

Wins on nature and the outdoors 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
14 hdaylight a day

Victoria Falls in July

26 °Cdaytime high
8 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
11 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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FesVictoria Falls

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). Victoria Falls: 1991-2020 normals, Livingstone (13.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureFesVictoria Falls
Official languageArabic, Standard Moroccan TamazightEnglish, Xhosa, Ndau, Venda, Chewa, Khoisan, Kalanga, Shona, Tonga, Tswana, Tsonga, Sesotho, Northern Ndebele, Nambya, Zimbabwe Sign Language, Barwe
CurrencyMoroccan Dirham (MAD)Zimbabwe Gold (ZWG)
SocketsCE50 HzG220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1UTC+2
Emergency numberPolice 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15999
Elevation408 m961 m
Main airportFes Saïss International Airport (FEZ)13 km from centre35 non-stop destinationsVictoria Falls International Airport (VFA)18 km from centre12 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureFesVictoria Falls
City population1,167,84233,060
People per km²3,650-
Museums within 10 km22
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10

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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.