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A paraglider over the beach at Ölüdeniz, Fethiye
FethiyeA paraglider over the beach at Ölüdeniz
Main Beach with its palms and lifeguard tower, Laguna Beach
Laguna BeachMain Beach with its palms and lifeguard tower

Photos: Fethiye by rheins, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Laguna Beach by Mark Stebnicki, Pexels License.

Fethiye or Laguna Beach?

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
  • nightlife
  • getting around

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

Choose Laguna Beach for

  • live music and the arts
  • families
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Laguna Beach’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, Laguna Beach 72: Fethiye leads by 10 points.
Food & drink. Fethiye 45, Laguna Beach 40: Fethiye leads by 5 points.
Culture & sights. Fethiye 35, Laguna Beach 27: Fethiye leads by 8 points.
Nightlife. Fethiye 42, Laguna Beach 18: Fethiye leads by 24 points.
Nature & outdoors. Fethiye 84, Laguna Beach 73: Fethiye leads by 11 points.
Day trips. Fethiye 76, Laguna Beach 72: Fethiye leads by 4 points.
Good for families. Fethiye 60, Laguna Beach 68: Laguna Beach leads by 8 points.
Getting around. Fethiye 50, Laguna Beach 33: Fethiye leads by 17 points.
Shopping & style. Fethiye 38, Laguna Beach 46: Laguna Beach leads by 8 points.
Affordability. Fethiye 62, Laguna Beach 12: Fethiye leads by 50 points.
Live music & performing arts. Fethiye 15, Laguna Beach 40: Laguna Beach leads by 25 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Fethiye 55, Laguna Beach 47: Fethiye leads by 8 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Fethiye and Laguna Beach.

Your match

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Fethiye
Best match
54match

Wins on prices and nightlife with your weighting.

Laguna Beach
46match

Wins on live music and the arts and families 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

Laguna Beach in July

28 °Cdaytime high
17 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
20 °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). Laguna Beach: 1981-2010 normals, Irvine (15.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureFethiyeLaguna Beach
Official languageTurkish-
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation0 m6 m
Main airportDalaman International Airport (DLM)30 km from centre61 non-stop destinationsJohn Wayne Orange County International Airport (SNA)18 km from centre53 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureFethiyeLaguna Beach
City population182,20023,032
People per km²-907
Museums within 10 km12
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
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. 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.