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The Hassan II Mosque and its minaret, Casablanca
CasablancaThe Hassan II Mosque and its minaret
A paraglider over the beach at Ölüdeniz, Fethiye
FethiyeA paraglider over the beach at Ölüdeniz

Photos: Casablanca by Samir Bakkah, Pexels License; Fethiye by rheins, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

Casablanca 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 Casablanca for

  • live music and the arts
  • culture and sights
  • food and drink

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

Choose Fethiye for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • beaches
  • families

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. Casablanca 50, Fethiye 82: Fethiye leads by 32 points.
Food & drink. Casablanca 60, Fethiye 45: Casablanca leads by 15 points.
Culture & sights. Casablanca 52, Fethiye 35: Casablanca leads by 17 points.
Nightlife. Casablanca 44, Fethiye 42: Casablanca leads by 2 points.
Nature & outdoors. Casablanca 33, Fethiye 84: Fethiye leads by 51 points.
Day trips. Casablanca 55, Fethiye 76: Fethiye leads by 21 points.
Good for families. Casablanca 38, Fethiye 60: Fethiye leads by 22 points.
Getting around. Casablanca 42, Fethiye 50: Fethiye leads by 8 points.
Shopping & style. Casablanca 50, Fethiye 38: Casablanca leads by 12 points.
Affordability. Casablanca 68, Fethiye 62: Casablanca leads by 6 points.
Live music & performing arts. Casablanca 38, Fethiye 15: Casablanca leads by 23 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Casablanca 52, Fethiye 55: Fethiye leads by 3 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Casablanca and Fethiye.

Your match

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

Casablanca
49match

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

Fethiye
Best match
54match

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

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Casablanca in July

26 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
22 °Csea
14 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. Casablanca: 1991-2020 normals, Casablanca (5.6 km from centre). Fethiye: 2000-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Dalaman (30.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCasablancaFethiye
Official languageArabic, Standard Moroccan TamazightTurkish
CurrencyMoroccan Dirham (MAD)Turkish Lira (TRY)
SocketsCE50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1UTC+3
Emergency numberPolice 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15112
Elevation115 m0 m
Main airportMohammed V International Airport (CMN)26 km from centre112 non-stop destinationsDalaman International Airport (DLM)30 km from centre61 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureCasablancaFethiye
City population3,215,935182,200
People per km²8,375-
Museums within 10 km31
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
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). 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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.