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The wide beach and its hotels in morning light, Daytona Beach
Daytona BeachThe wide beach and its hotels in morning light
A paraglider over the beach at Ölüdeniz, Fethiye
FethiyeA paraglider over the beach at Ölüdeniz

Photos: Daytona Beach by Han Zheng, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Fethiye by rheins, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

Daytona Beach 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 Daytona Beach for

  • live music and the arts

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

Choose Fethiye for

  • getting around
  • 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. Daytona Beach 80, Fethiye 82: Fethiye leads by 2 points.
Food & drink. Daytona Beach 36, Fethiye 45: Fethiye leads by 9 points.
Culture & sights. Daytona Beach 30, Fethiye 35: Fethiye leads by 5 points.
Nightlife. Daytona Beach 40, Fethiye 42: Fethiye leads by 2 points.
Nature & outdoors. Daytona Beach 56, Fethiye 84: Fethiye leads by 28 points.
Day trips. Daytona Beach 66, Fethiye 76: Fethiye leads by 10 points.
Good for families. Daytona Beach and Fethiye are level on 60.
Getting around. Daytona Beach 18, Fethiye 50: Fethiye leads by 32 points.
Shopping & style. Daytona Beach 27, Fethiye 38: Fethiye leads by 11 points.
Affordability. Daytona Beach 46, Fethiye 62: Fethiye leads by 16 points.
Live music & performing arts. Daytona Beach 30, Fethiye 15: Daytona Beach leads by 15 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Daytona Beach 30, Fethiye 55: Fethiye leads by 25 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Daytona Beach and Fethiye.

Your match

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

Daytona Beach
43match

Wins on live music and the arts with your weighting.

Fethiye
Best match
54match

Wins on getting around 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.

Daytona Beach in July

33 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
153 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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Daytona BeachFethiye

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. Daytona Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Daytona Beach / Mansfield Mobile Home Park (4.9 km from centre). Fethiye: 2000-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Dalaman (30.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureDaytona BeachFethiye
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
Elevation4 m0 m
Main airportDaytona Beach International Airport (DAB)5 km from centre8 non-stop destinationsDalaman International Airport (DLM)30 km from centre61 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureDaytona BeachFethiye
City population72,647182,200
People per km²440-
Museums within 10 km61
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C9 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.