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Cloud Gate in Millennium Park, Chicago
ChicagoCloud Gate in Millennium Park
A paraglider over the beach at Ölüdeniz, Fethiye
FethiyeA paraglider over the beach at Ölüdeniz

Photos: Chicago by Jesus Toledo, Pexels License; Fethiye by rheins, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

Chicago 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 Chicago for

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

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

Choose Fethiye for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • day trips
  • beaches

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. Chicago 50, Fethiye 82: Fethiye leads by 32 points.
Food & drink. Chicago 80, Fethiye 45: Chicago leads by 35 points.
Culture & sights. Chicago 78, Fethiye 35: Chicago leads by 43 points.
Nightlife. Chicago 77, Fethiye 42: Chicago leads by 35 points.
Nature & outdoors. Chicago 48, Fethiye 84: Fethiye leads by 36 points.
Day trips. Chicago 42, Fethiye 76: Fethiye leads by 34 points.
Good for families. Chicago 78, Fethiye 60: Chicago leads by 18 points.
Getting around. Chicago 72, Fethiye 50: Chicago leads by 22 points.
Shopping & style. Chicago 70, Fethiye 38: Chicago leads by 32 points.
Affordability. Chicago 33, Fethiye 62: Fethiye leads by 29 points.
Live music & performing arts. Chicago 82, Fethiye 15: Chicago leads by 67 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Chicago 33, Fethiye 55: Fethiye leads by 22 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Chicago and Fethiye.

Your match

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

Chicago
Best match
62match

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

Fethiye
54match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and day trips with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Chicago in July

29 °Cdaytime high
20 °Cnight-time low
102 mmrain in the month
21 °Csea
15 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. Chicago: 1991-2020 normals, Chicago Midway Airport (14.5 km from centre). Fethiye: 2000-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Dalaman (30.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureChicagoFethiye
Official language-Turkish
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Turkish Lira (TRY)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6, UTC-5 in summerUTC+3
Emergency number911112
Elevation179 m0 m
Main airportChicago O'Hare International Airport (ORD)25 km from centre274 non-stop destinationsDalaman International Airport (DLM)30 km from centre61 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureChicagoFethiye
City population2,746,388182,200
People per km²4,529-
Museums within 10 km441
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Swim season, months above 21 °C1 month6 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.