Best time to visit Fes

Fes is a city of two halves. April scores 84 and August scores 30 — a 54-point swing, which is the difference between a holiday and an endurance test. The month you pick matters more here than almost anywhere. 7 of the twelve months sit within ten points of the best, so there is more than one right answer.

August is the warmest month at 39.1 °C and January the coolest at 17.4 °C — a 21.7 °C spread across the year. 143 days a year top 30 °C, more than a third of the calendar, so heat is the baseline here rather than a season.

There is a real wet season here. January, February, March, November and December carry the rain — up to 10 wet days in a month — while June to August drop as low as 1. That 9-day gap is the biggest single difference between a good month and a bad one in Fes, and it moves further than the temperature does.

Daylight runs from 9.9 hours in winter to 14.4 in summer, enough to notice on a sightseeing itinerary.

The three strongest months are April, May, March. The one to think twice about is August. Each month below has its own page with rainfall reliability, extremes, daylight and crowd levels.

Fes month by month