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The Anshun Bridge over the Jin River, Chengdu
ChengduThe Anshun Bridge over the Jin River
A paraglider over the beach at Ölüdeniz, Fethiye
FethiyeA paraglider over the beach at Ölüdeniz

Photos: Chengdu by TurnOnTheNight, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Fethiye by rheins, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

Chengdu 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 Chengdu for

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

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

Choose Fethiye for

  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors

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. Chengdu 5, Fethiye 82: Fethiye leads by 77 points.
Food & drink. Chengdu 86, Fethiye 45: Chengdu leads by 41 points.
Culture & sights. Chengdu 60, Fethiye 35: Chengdu leads by 25 points.
Nightlife. Chengdu 68, Fethiye 42: Chengdu leads by 26 points.
Nature & outdoors. Chengdu 68, Fethiye 84: Fethiye leads by 16 points.
Day trips. Chengdu 80, Fethiye 76: Chengdu leads by 4 points.
Good for families. Chengdu 65, Fethiye 60: Chengdu leads by 5 points.
Getting around. Chengdu 74, Fethiye 50: Chengdu leads by 24 points.
Shopping & style. Chengdu 64, Fethiye 38: Chengdu leads by 26 points.
Affordability. Chengdu 80, Fethiye 62: Chengdu leads by 18 points.
Live music & performing arts. Chengdu 50, Fethiye 15: Chengdu leads by 35 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Chengdu 58, Fethiye 55: Chengdu leads by 3 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Chengdu and Fethiye.

Your match

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

Chengdu
Best match
63match

Wins on food and drink and live music and the arts 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.

Chengdu in July

31 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
177 mmrain in the month
4 hsunshine a day
No seasea
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. Chengdu: 1991-2020 normals, Chengdu (4.5 km from centre). Fethiye: 2000-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Dalaman (30.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureChengduFethiye
Official languagePutonghuaTurkish
CurrencyYuan Renminbi (CNY)Turkish Lira (TRY)
SocketsACI220 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+8UTC+3
Emergency numberPolice 110, ambulance 120, fire 119112
Elevation500 m0 m
Main airportChengdu Shuangliu International Airport (CTU)16 km from centre77 non-stop destinationsDalaman International Airport (DLM)30 km from centre61 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year6 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureChengduFethiye
City population20,937,757182,200
People per km²1,456-
Museums within 10 km101
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
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). 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. 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.