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A paraglider over the beach at Ölüdeniz, Fethiye
FethiyeA paraglider over the beach at Ölüdeniz
The Elbphilharmonie from the water, Hamburg
HamburgThe Elbphilharmonie from the water

Photos: Fethiye by rheins, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Hamburg by Wolfgang Weiser, Pexels License.

Fethiye or Hamburg?

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 Hamburg for

  • live music and the arts
  • nightlife
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Hamburg’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, Hamburg 28: Fethiye leads by 54 points.
Food & drink. Fethiye 45, Hamburg 55: Hamburg leads by 10 points.
Culture & sights. Fethiye 35, Hamburg 62: Hamburg leads by 27 points.
Nightlife. Fethiye 42, Hamburg 76: Hamburg leads by 34 points.
Nature & outdoors. Fethiye 84, Hamburg 52: Fethiye leads by 32 points.
Day trips. Fethiye 76, Hamburg 70: Fethiye leads by 6 points.
Good for families. Fethiye 60, Hamburg 74: Hamburg leads by 14 points.
Getting around. Fethiye 50, Hamburg 80: Hamburg leads by 30 points.
Shopping & style. Fethiye 38, Hamburg 65: Hamburg leads by 27 points.
Affordability. Fethiye 62, Hamburg 38: Fethiye leads by 24 points.
Live music & performing arts. Fethiye 15, Hamburg 80: Hamburg leads by 65 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Fethiye 55, Hamburg 44: Fethiye leads by 11 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Fethiye and Hamburg.

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.

Hamburg
Best match
60match

Wins on live music and the arts and nightlife 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

Hamburg in July

23 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
82 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
No seasea
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.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Fethiye: 2000-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Dalaman (30.8 km from centre). Hamburg: 1991-2020 normals, Hamburg Airport (9.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureFethiyeHamburg
Official languageTurkishGerman
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation0 m6 m
Main airportDalaman International Airport (DLM)30 km from centre61 non-stop destinationsHamburg Helmut Schmidt Airport (HAM)9 km from centre120 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureFethiyeHamburg
City population182,2001,869,473
People per km²-2,476
Museums within 10 km177
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Swim season, months above 21 °C6 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.