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The Fisherman's Bastion, Budapest
BudapestThe Fisherman's Bastion
A paraglider over the beach at Ölüdeniz, Fethiye
FethiyeA paraglider over the beach at Ölüdeniz

Photos: Budapest by Perituss, CC0; Fethiye by rheins, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

Budapest 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 Budapest for

  • live music and the arts
  • culture and sights
  • wellness

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

Choose Fethiye for

  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors
  • 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. Budapest 25, Fethiye 82: Fethiye leads by 57 points.
Food & drink. Budapest 63, Fethiye 45: Budapest leads by 18 points.
Culture & sights. Budapest 80, Fethiye 35: Budapest leads by 45 points.
Nightlife. Budapest 78, Fethiye 42: Budapest leads by 36 points.
Nature & outdoors. Budapest 58, Fethiye 84: Fethiye leads by 26 points.
Day trips. Budapest 68, Fethiye 76: Fethiye leads by 8 points.
Good for families. Budapest 62, Fethiye 60: Budapest leads by 2 points.
Getting around. Budapest 78, Fethiye 50: Budapest leads by 28 points.
Shopping & style. Budapest 55, Fethiye 38: Budapest leads by 17 points.
Affordability. Budapest and Fethiye are level on 62.
Live music & performing arts. Budapest 76, Fethiye 15: Budapest leads by 61 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Budapest 98, Fethiye 55: Budapest leads by 43 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Budapest and Fethiye.

Your match

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

Budapest
Best match
67match

Wins on live music and the arts and culture and sights with your weighting.

Fethiye
54match

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

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Budapest in July

27 °Cdaytime high
17 °Cnight-time low
75 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
No seasea
16 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. Budapest: 1991-2020 normals, Budapest Met Center (2.1 km from centre). Fethiye: 2000-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Dalaman (30.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBudapestFethiye
Official languageHungarianTurkish
CurrencyForint (HUF)Turkish Lira (TRY)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+3
Emergency number112112
Elevation117 m0 m
Main airportBudapest Liszt Ferenc International Airport (BUD)18 km from centre157 non-stop destinationsDalaman International Airport (DLM)30 km from centre61 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureBudapestFethiye
City population1,675,777182,200
People per km²3,191-
Museums within 10 km811
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
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). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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. 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.