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A heritage tram before the Regent building, Christchurch
ChristchurchA heritage tram before the Regent building
A paraglider over the beach at Ölüdeniz, Fethiye
FethiyeA paraglider over the beach at Ölüdeniz

Photos: Christchurch by Bernard Spragg. NZ, CC0; Fethiye by rheins, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

Christchurch 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 Christchurch for

  • live music and the arts
  • families
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Fethiye for

  • beaches
  • day trips
  • 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. Christchurch 38, Fethiye 82: Fethiye leads by 44 points.
Food & drink. Christchurch and Fethiye are level on 45.
Culture & sights. Christchurch 38, Fethiye 35: Christchurch leads by 3 points.
Nightlife. Christchurch 32, Fethiye 42: Fethiye leads by 10 points.
Nature & outdoors. Christchurch and Fethiye are level on 84.
Day trips. Christchurch 45, Fethiye 76: Fethiye leads by 31 points.
Good for families. Christchurch 66, Fethiye 60: Christchurch leads by 6 points.
Getting around. Christchurch 48, Fethiye 50: Fethiye leads by 2 points.
Shopping & style. Christchurch 32, Fethiye 38: Fethiye leads by 6 points.
Affordability. Christchurch 38, Fethiye 62: Fethiye leads by 24 points.
Live music & performing arts. Christchurch 38, Fethiye 15: Christchurch leads by 23 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Christchurch 45, Fethiye 55: Fethiye leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Christchurch and Fethiye.

Your match

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

Christchurch
46match

Wins on live music and the arts and families with your weighting.

Fethiye
Best match
54match

Wins on beaches 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.

Christchurch in July

11 °Cdaytime high
1 °Cnight-time low
68 mmrain in the month
4 hsunshine a day
10 °Csea
9 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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ChristchurchFethiye

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. Christchurch: 1991-2020 normals, Christchurch (8.7 km from centre). Fethiye: 2000-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Dalaman (30.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureChristchurchFethiye
Official languageEnglish, New Zealand Sign Language, MāoriTurkish
CurrencyNew Zealand Dollar (NZD)Turkish Lira (TRY)
SocketsI230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+12, UTC+13 in summerUTC+3
Emergency number111112
Elevation20 m0 m
Main airportChristchurch International Airport (CHC)10 km from centre28 non-stop destinationsDalaman International Airport (DLM)30 km from centre61 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureChristchurchFethiye
City population383,200182,200
People per km²1,298-
Museums within 10 km111
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
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.