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A paraglider over the beach at Ölüdeniz, Fethiye
FethiyeA paraglider over the beach at Ölüdeniz
Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow
GlasgowKelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum

Photos: Fethiye by rheins, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Glasgow by Stinglehammer, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Fethiye or Glasgow?

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
  • wellness
  • prices

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

Choose Glasgow for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Glasgow’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, Glasgow 14: Fethiye leads by 68 points.
Food & drink. Fethiye 45, Glasgow 52: Glasgow leads by 7 points.
Culture & sights. Fethiye 35, Glasgow 62: Glasgow leads by 27 points.
Nightlife. Fethiye 42, Glasgow 66: Glasgow leads by 24 points.
Nature & outdoors. Fethiye 84, Glasgow 75: Fethiye leads by 9 points.
Day trips. Fethiye and Glasgow are level on 76.
Good for families. Fethiye 60, Glasgow 58: Fethiye leads by 2 points.
Getting around. Fethiye 50, Glasgow 66: Glasgow leads by 16 points.
Shopping & style. Fethiye 38, Glasgow 64: Glasgow leads by 26 points.
Affordability. Fethiye 62, Glasgow 46: Fethiye leads by 16 points.
Live music & performing arts. Fethiye 15, Glasgow 72: Glasgow leads by 57 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Fethiye 55, Glasgow 28: Fethiye leads by 27 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Fethiye and Glasgow.

Your match

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

Fethiye
54match

Wins on beaches and wellness with your weighting.

Glasgow
Best match
57match

Wins on live music and the arts and culture and sights 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

Glasgow in July

19 °Cdaytime high
11 °Cnight-time low
85 mmrain in the month
4 hsunshine a day
15 °Csea
17 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.

Glasgow 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.

Glasgow's sunshine is measured 90 km from the centre, at Eskdalemuir.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Fethiye: 2000-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Dalaman (30.8 km from centre). Glasgow: 1991-2020 normals, Glasgow Airport (11.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureFethiyeGlasgow
Official languageTurkishEnglish
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+3UTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112112 or 999
Elevation0 m21 m
Main airportDalaman International Airport (DLM)30 km from centre61 non-stop destinationsGlasgow Airport (GLA)11 km from centre95 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureFethiyeGlasgow
City population182,200626,410
People per km²-190
Museums within 10 km129
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Swim season, months above 21 °C6 monthsNone

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