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The blue gate of Bab Bou Jeloud, Fes
FesThe blue gate of Bab Bou Jeloud
The red cable car above Wellington, Wellington
WellingtonThe red cable car above Wellington

Photos: Fes by Ideophagous, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Wellington by lumoplank, CC0.

Fes or Wellington?

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

  • prices
  • wellness
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Wellington for

  • families
  • nightlife
  • beaches

What lies behind each score is written up on Wellington’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, Wellington 33: Wellington leads by 28 points.
Food & drink. Fes and Wellington are level on 62.
Culture & sights. Fes 80, Wellington 44: Fes leads by 36 points.
Nightlife. Fes 12, Wellington 45: Wellington leads by 33 points.
Nature & outdoors. Fes 52, Wellington 78: Wellington leads by 26 points.
Day trips. Fes 62, Wellington 40: Fes leads by 22 points.
Good for families. Fes 22, Wellington 62: Wellington leads by 40 points.
Getting around. Fes 40, Wellington 68: Wellington leads by 28 points.
Shopping & style. Fes 68, Wellington 42: Fes leads by 26 points.
Affordability. Fes 80, Wellington 33: Fes leads by 47 points.
Live music & performing arts. Fes 32, Wellington 56: Wellington leads by 24 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Fes 70, Wellington 30: Fes leads by 40 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Fes and Wellington.

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
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Wins on prices and wellness with your weighting.

Wellington
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Wins on families 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

Wellington in July

12 °Cdaytime high
7 °Cnight-time low
111 mmrain in the month
4 hsunshine a day
12 °Csea
10 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.

Wellington's sunshine is measured 47 km from the centre, at Paraparaumu Aerodrome.

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). Wellington: 1961-1990 (sunshine 1991-2020) normals, Wellington Aerodrome Aws (5.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureFesWellington
Official languageArabic, Standard Moroccan TamazightEnglish, New Zealand Sign Language, Māori
CurrencyMoroccan Dirham (MAD)New Zealand Dollar (NZD)
SocketsCE50 HzI230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1UTC+12, UTC+13 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15111
Elevation408 m0 m
Main airportFes Saïss International Airport (FEZ)13 km from centre35 non-stop destinationsWellington International Airport (WLG)5 km from centre20 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureFesWellington
City population1,167,842216,200
People per km²3,650487
Museums within 10 km212
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °C-None

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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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm.

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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.