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The Explanada de España, Alicante
AlicanteThe Explanada de España
A paraglider over the beach at Ölüdeniz, Fethiye
FethiyeA paraglider over the beach at Ölüdeniz

Photos: Alicante by Emilio Sánchez Hernández, Pexels License; Fethiye by rheins, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

Alicante or Fethiye?

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 Alicante for

  • food and drink
  • live music and the arts
  • nightlife

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

Choose Fethiye for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • wellness
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Fethiye’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. Alicante and Fethiye are level on 82.
Food & drink. Alicante 67, Fethiye 45: Alicante leads by 22 points.
Culture & sights. Alicante 46, Fethiye 35: Alicante leads by 11 points.
Nightlife. Alicante 60, Fethiye 42: Alicante leads by 18 points.
Nature & outdoors. Alicante 63, Fethiye 84: Fethiye leads by 21 points.
Day trips. Alicante 72, Fethiye 76: Fethiye leads by 4 points.
Good for families. Alicante 68, Fethiye 60: Alicante leads by 8 points.
Getting around. Alicante 66, Fethiye 50: Alicante leads by 16 points.
Shopping & style. Alicante 44, Fethiye 38: Alicante leads by 6 points.
Affordability. Alicante 60, Fethiye 62: Fethiye leads by 2 points.
Live music & performing arts. Alicante 37, Fethiye 15: Alicante leads by 22 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Alicante 40, Fethiye 55: Fethiye leads by 15 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Alicante and Fethiye.

Your match

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

Alicante
Best match
59match

Wins on food and drink and live music and the arts with your weighting.

Fethiye
54match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and wellness with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Alicante in July

30 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
3 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
25 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Fethiye in July

32 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
8 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
26 °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

Fethiye's temperatures are measured 31 km from the centre, at Dalaman.

Fethiye 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.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Alicante: 1991-2020 normals, Alicante (2.8 km from centre). Fethiye: 2000-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Dalaman (30.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAlicanteFethiye
Official languageSpanishTurkish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Turkish Lira (TRY)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+3
Emergency number112112
Elevation3 m0 m
Main airportAlicante-Elche Miguel Hernández Airport (ALC)10 km from centre126 non-stop destinationsDalaman International Airport (DLM)30 km from centre61 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureAlicanteFethiye
City population366,221182,200
People per km²1,819-
Museums within 10 km81
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months6 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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. 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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.