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The pastel houses of Rainbow Row, Charleston
CharlestonThe pastel houses of Rainbow Row
A paraglider over the beach at Ölüdeniz, Fethiye
FethiyeA paraglider over the beach at Ölüdeniz

Photos: Charleston by NealVickers, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Fethiye by rheins, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

Charleston 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 Charleston for

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

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

Choose Fethiye for

  • prices
  • nature and the outdoors
  • wellness

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. Charleston 72, Fethiye 82: Fethiye leads by 10 points.
Food & drink. Charleston 72, Fethiye 45: Charleston leads by 27 points.
Culture & sights. Charleston 64, Fethiye 35: Charleston leads by 29 points.
Nightlife. Charleston 44, Fethiye 42: Charleston leads by 2 points.
Nature & outdoors. Charleston 55, Fethiye 84: Fethiye leads by 29 points.
Day trips. Charleston 62, Fethiye 76: Fethiye leads by 14 points.
Good for families. Charleston and Fethiye are level on 60.
Getting around. Charleston 46, Fethiye 50: Fethiye leads by 4 points.
Shopping & style. Charleston 55, Fethiye 38: Charleston leads by 17 points.
Affordability. Charleston 27, Fethiye 62: Fethiye leads by 35 points.
Live music & performing arts. Charleston 42, Fethiye 15: Charleston leads by 27 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Charleston 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: Charleston and Fethiye.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Charleston
53match

Wins on culture and sights and food and drink with your weighting.

Fethiye
54match

Wins on prices 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.

Charleston in July

33 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
167 mmrain in the month
28 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Fethiye in July

32 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
8 mmrain in the month
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. Charleston: 1991-2020 normals, Charleston Airport (16.1 km from centre). Fethiye: 2000-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Dalaman (30.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCharlestonFethiye
Official language-Turkish
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Turkish Lira (TRY)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+3
Emergency number911112
Elevation6 m0 m
Main airportCharleston International Airport (CHS)16 km from centre56 non-stop destinationsDalaman International Airport (DLM)30 km from centre61 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureCharlestonFethiye
City population150,227182,200
People per km²532-
Museums within 10 km191
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C6 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). 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.