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Skiers at the foot of the slopes in the village, Copper Mountain
Copper MountainSkiers at the foot of the slopes in the village
A paraglider over the beach at Ölüdeniz, Fethiye
FethiyeA paraglider over the beach at Ölüdeniz

Photos: Copper Mountain by SparkFunElectronics, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Fethiye by rheins, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

Copper Mountain 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 Copper Mountain for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • families

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

Choose Fethiye for

  • beaches
  • prices
  • culture and sights

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. Copper Mountain 3, Fethiye 82: Fethiye leads by 79 points.
Food & drink. Copper Mountain 20, Fethiye 45: Fethiye leads by 25 points.
Culture & sights. Copper Mountain 4, Fethiye 35: Fethiye leads by 31 points.
Nightlife. Copper Mountain 12, Fethiye 42: Fethiye leads by 30 points.
Nature & outdoors. Copper Mountain 90, Fethiye 84: Copper Mountain leads by 6 points.
Day trips. Copper Mountain 55, Fethiye 76: Fethiye leads by 21 points.
Good for families. Copper Mountain 62, Fethiye 60: Copper Mountain leads by 2 points.
Getting around. Copper Mountain 48, Fethiye 50: Fethiye leads by 2 points.
Shopping & style. Copper Mountain 8, Fethiye 38: Fethiye leads by 30 points.
Affordability. Copper Mountain 18, Fethiye 62: Fethiye leads by 44 points.
Live music & performing arts. Copper Mountain 8, Fethiye 15: Fethiye leads by 7 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Copper Mountain 28, Fethiye 55: Fethiye leads by 27 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Copper Mountain and Fethiye.

Your match

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

Copper Mountain
30match

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

Fethiye
Best match
54match

Wins on beaches and prices with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Copper Mountain in July

21 °Cdaytime high
5 °Cnight-time low
41 mmrain in the month
No seasea
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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Copper MountainFethiye

Where the figures come from

Copper Mountain's temperatures are measured 35 km from the centre, at Leadville / Stringtown.

Copper Mountain 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.

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. Copper Mountain: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Leadville / Stringtown (35.2 km from centre). Fethiye: 2000-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Dalaman (30.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCopper MountainFethiye
Official language-Turkish
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Turkish Lira (TRY)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC+3
Emergency number911112
Elevation2,955 m0 m
Main airportDenver International Airport (DEN)132 km from centre231 non-stop destinationsDalaman International Airport (DLM)30 km from centre61 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureCopper MountainFethiye
City population650182,200
People per km²8-
Museums within 10 km01
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C-6 months

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Sources

Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national 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.