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A paraglider over the beach at Ölüdeniz, Fethiye
FethiyeA paraglider over the beach at Ölüdeniz
The red five-storey pagoda of Tocho-ji, Fukuoka
FukuokaThe red five-storey pagoda of Tocho-ji

Photos: Fethiye by rheins, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Fukuoka by Nick-D, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Fethiye or Fukuoka?

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

  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors
  • prices

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

Choose Fukuoka for

  • food and drink
  • getting around
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Fukuoka’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, Fukuoka 50: Fethiye leads by 32 points.
Food & drink. Fethiye 45, Fukuoka 82: Fukuoka leads by 37 points.
Culture & sights. Fethiye 35, Fukuoka 50: Fukuoka leads by 15 points.
Nightlife. Fethiye 42, Fukuoka 60: Fukuoka leads by 18 points.
Nature & outdoors. Fethiye 84, Fukuoka 62: Fethiye leads by 22 points.
Day trips. Fethiye 76, Fukuoka 84: Fukuoka leads by 8 points.
Good for families. Fethiye 60, Fukuoka 78: Fukuoka leads by 18 points.
Getting around. Fethiye 50, Fukuoka 82: Fukuoka leads by 32 points.
Shopping & style. Fethiye 38, Fukuoka 65: Fukuoka leads by 27 points.
Affordability. Fethiye 62, Fukuoka 58: Fethiye leads by 4 points.
Live music & performing arts. Fethiye 15, Fukuoka 45: Fukuoka leads by 30 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Fethiye 55, Fukuoka 60: Fukuoka leads by 5 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Fethiye and Fukuoka.

Your match

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

Fethiye
54match

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

Fukuoka
Best match
65match

Wins on food and drink and getting around 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

Fukuoka in July

31 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
301 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
24 °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. Fethiye: 2000-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Dalaman (30.8 km from centre). Fukuoka: 1991-2020 normals, Fukuoka (1.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureFethiyeFukuoka
Official languageTurkishJapanese
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Yen (JPY)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+3UTC+9
Emergency number112Police 110, fire 119
Elevation0 m8 m
Main airportDalaman International Airport (DLM)30 km from centre61 non-stop destinationsFukuoka Airport (FUK)5 km from centre46 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureFethiyeFukuoka
City population182,2001,603,043
People per km²-4,715
Museums within 10 km123
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Swim season, months above 21 °C6 months4 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.