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A paraglider over the beach at Ölüdeniz, Fethiye
FethiyeA paraglider over the beach at Ölüdeniz
Praia Mole in Florianopolis, Florianopolis
FlorianopolisPraia Mole in Florianopolis

Photos: Fethiye by rheins, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Florianopolis by Papa Pic, CC0.

Fethiye or Florianopolis?

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 Fethiye for

  • day trips
  • getting around
  • wellness

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

Choose Florianopolis for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Florianopolis’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. Fethiye 82, Florianopolis 85: Florianopolis leads by 3 points.
Food & drink. Fethiye 45, Florianopolis 58: Florianopolis leads by 13 points.
Culture & sights. Fethiye 35, Florianopolis 33: Fethiye leads by 2 points.
Nightlife. Fethiye 42, Florianopolis 60: Florianopolis leads by 18 points.
Nature & outdoors. Fethiye 84, Florianopolis 78: Fethiye leads by 6 points.
Day trips. Fethiye 76, Florianopolis 50: Fethiye leads by 26 points.
Good for families. Fethiye and Florianopolis are level on 60.
Getting around. Fethiye 50, Florianopolis 28: Fethiye leads by 22 points.
Shopping & style. Fethiye 38, Florianopolis 33: Fethiye leads by 5 points.
Affordability. Fethiye 62, Florianopolis 60: Fethiye leads by 2 points.
Live music & performing arts. Fethiye 15, Florianopolis 28: Florianopolis leads by 13 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Fethiye 55, Florianopolis 45: Fethiye leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Fethiye and Florianopolis.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Fethiye
54match

Wins on day trips and getting around with your weighting.

Florianopolis
52match

Wins on nightlife and food and drink with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

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

Florianopolis in July

21 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
91 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
18 °Csea
11 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. Fethiye: 2000-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Dalaman (30.8 km from centre). Florianopolis: 1991-2020 normals, Florianopolis (1.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureFethiyeFlorianopolis
Official languageTurkishPortuguese
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Brazilian Real (BRL)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCN60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC-3
Emergency number112Police 190, ambulance 192, fire 193
Elevation0 m3 m
Main airportDalaman International Airport (DLM)30 km from centre61 non-stop destinationsHercílio Luz International Airport (FLN)9 km from centre21 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureFethiyeFlorianopolis
City population182,200587,486
People per km²-870
Museums within 10 km111
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °C6 months7 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). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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. 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.