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A paraglider over the beach at Ölüdeniz, Fethiye
FethiyeA paraglider over the beach at Ölüdeniz
Surfers Paradise from Narrowneck Beach, Gold Coast
Gold CoastSurfers Paradise from Narrowneck Beach

Photos: Fethiye by rheins, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Gold Coast by Kgbo, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Fethiye or Gold Coast?

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

  • prices
  • day trips
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Gold Coast for

  • families
  • live music and the arts
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Gold Coast’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, Gold Coast 92: Gold Coast leads by 10 points.
Food & drink. Fethiye 45, Gold Coast 47: Gold Coast leads by 2 points.
Culture & sights. Fethiye 35, Gold Coast 15: Fethiye leads by 20 points.
Nightlife. Fethiye 42, Gold Coast 55: Gold Coast leads by 13 points.
Nature & outdoors. Fethiye 84, Gold Coast 82: Fethiye leads by 2 points.
Day trips. Fethiye 76, Gold Coast 52: Fethiye leads by 24 points.
Good for families. Fethiye 60, Gold Coast 89: Gold Coast leads by 29 points.
Getting around. Fethiye 50, Gold Coast 45: Fethiye leads by 5 points.
Shopping & style. Fethiye 38, Gold Coast 40: Gold Coast leads by 2 points.
Affordability. Fethiye 62, Gold Coast 35: Fethiye leads by 27 points.
Live music & performing arts. Fethiye 15, Gold Coast 30: Gold Coast leads by 15 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Fethiye 55, Gold Coast 42: Fethiye leads by 13 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Fethiye and Gold Coast.

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 prices and day trips with your weighting.

Gold Coast
52match

Wins on families and live music and the arts 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

Gold Coast in July

22 °Cdaytime high
12 °Cnight-time low
59 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
21 °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.

Gold Coast's sunshine is measured 75 km from the centre, at Brisbane Airport.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Fethiye: 2000-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Dalaman (30.8 km from centre). Gold Coast: 1991-2020 normals, Gold Coast Seaway (13 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureFethiyeGold Coast
Official languageTurkishEnglish
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Australian Dollar (AUD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzI230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+3UTC+10
Emergency number112000
Elevation0 m12 m
Main airportDalaman International Airport (DLM)30 km from centre61 non-stop destinationsGold Coast Airport (OOL)20 km from centre19 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureFethiyeGold Coast
City population182,200607,665
People per km²-433
Museums within 10 km12
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Swim season, months above 21 °C6 months12 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.