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Cardiff Castle, Cardiff
CardiffCardiff Castle
A paraglider over the beach at Ölüdeniz, Fethiye
FethiyeA paraglider over the beach at Ölüdeniz

Photos: Cardiff by Tevfik Teker, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Fethiye by rheins, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

Cardiff 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 Cardiff for

  • live music and the arts
  • culture and sights
  • getting around

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

Choose Fethiye for

  • beaches
  • wellness
  • prices

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. Cardiff 30, Fethiye 82: Fethiye leads by 52 points.
Food & drink. Cardiff and Fethiye are level on 45.
Culture & sights. Cardiff 58, Fethiye 35: Cardiff leads by 23 points.
Nightlife. Cardiff 50, Fethiye 42: Cardiff leads by 8 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cardiff 70, Fethiye 84: Fethiye leads by 14 points.
Day trips. Cardiff 72, Fethiye 76: Fethiye leads by 4 points.
Good for families. Cardiff 58, Fethiye 60: Fethiye leads by 2 points.
Getting around. Cardiff 66, Fethiye 50: Cardiff leads by 16 points.
Shopping & style. Cardiff 50, Fethiye 38: Cardiff leads by 12 points.
Affordability. Cardiff 46, Fethiye 62: Fethiye leads by 16 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cardiff 57, Fethiye 15: Cardiff leads by 42 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cardiff 27, Fethiye 55: Fethiye leads by 28 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cardiff and Fethiye.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Cardiff
52match

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

Fethiye
54match

Wins on beaches 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.

Cardiff in July

20 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
83 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
17 °Csea
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

Cardiff 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.

Cardiff's sunshine is measured 83 km from the centre, at Lyneham.

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. Cardiff: 1991-2020 normals, Cardiff-Wales Airport (14.9 km from centre). Fethiye: 2000-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Dalaman (30.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCardiffFethiye
Official languageEnglishTurkish
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Turkish Lira (TRY)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+3
Emergency number112 or 999112
Elevation41 m0 m
Main airportCardiff International Airport (CWL)15 km from centre30 non-stop destinationsDalaman International Airport (DLM)30 km from centre61 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureCardiffFethiye
City population383,536182,200
People per km²2,734-
Museums within 10 km91
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone6 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). 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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.