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A paraglider over the beach at Ölüdeniz, Fethiye
FethiyeA paraglider over the beach at Ölüdeniz
A cable car over the brick-red houses, La Paz
La PazA cable car over the brick-red houses

Photos: Fethiye by rheins, CC BY 3.0, cropped; La Paz by Arabsalam, CC BY 4.0, cropped.

Fethiye or La Paz?

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
  • families
  • wellness

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

Choose La Paz for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on La Paz’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, La Paz 3: Fethiye leads by 79 points.
Food & drink. Fethiye 45, La Paz 50: La Paz leads by 5 points.
Culture & sights. Fethiye 35, La Paz 52: La Paz leads by 17 points.
Nightlife. Fethiye 42, La Paz 38: Fethiye leads by 4 points.
Nature & outdoors. Fethiye 84, La Paz 82: Fethiye leads by 2 points.
Day trips. Fethiye 76, La Paz 40: Fethiye leads by 36 points.
Good for families. Fethiye 60, La Paz 10: Fethiye leads by 50 points.
Getting around. Fethiye 50, La Paz 45: Fethiye leads by 5 points.
Shopping & style. Fethiye 38, La Paz 45: La Paz leads by 7 points.
Affordability. Fethiye 62, La Paz 92: La Paz leads by 30 points.
Live music & performing arts. Fethiye 15, La Paz 35: La Paz leads by 20 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Fethiye 55, La Paz 12: Fethiye leads by 43 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Fethiye and La Paz.

Your match

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

Fethiye
Best match
54match

Wins on beaches and families with your weighting.

La Paz
42match

Wins on prices 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
26 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

La Paz in July

13 °Cdaytime high
-2 °Cnight-time low
16 mmrain in the month
No seasea
11 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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FethiyeLa Paz

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.

La Paz has no weather station within reach, so its figures come from a gridded climate model rather than a measured record, and read a broad area rather than the city itself.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Fethiye: 2000-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Dalaman (30.8 km from centre). La Paz: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureFethiyeLa Paz
Official languageTurkishSpanish, Aymara, Quechua, Guarani
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Boliviano (BOB)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAC50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC-4
Emergency number112911
Elevation0 m3,640 m
Main airportDalaman International Airport (DLM)30 km from centre61 non-stop destinationsEl Alto International Airport (LPB)6 km from centre12 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureFethiyeLa Paz
City population182,200755,732
People per km²-1,601
Museums within 10 km121
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. Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. 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.