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A paraglider over the beach at Ölüdeniz, Fethiye
FethiyeA paraglider over the beach at Ölüdeniz
The Ferris wheel on Santa Monica Pier, Los Angeles
Los AngelesThe Ferris wheel on Santa Monica Pier

Photos: Fethiye by rheins, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Los Angeles by Domenico Convertini, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Fethiye or Los Angeles?

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
  • getting around
  • beaches

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

Choose Los Angeles for

  • live music and the arts
  • shopping
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on Los Angeles’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, Los Angeles 60: Fethiye leads by 22 points.
Food & drink. Fethiye 45, Los Angeles 84: Los Angeles leads by 39 points.
Culture & sights. Fethiye 35, Los Angeles 66: Los Angeles leads by 31 points.
Nightlife. Fethiye 42, Los Angeles 67: Los Angeles leads by 25 points.
Nature & outdoors. Fethiye 84, Los Angeles 80: Fethiye leads by 4 points.
Day trips. Fethiye 76, Los Angeles 60: Fethiye leads by 16 points.
Good for families. Fethiye 60, Los Angeles 84: Los Angeles leads by 24 points.
Getting around. Fethiye 50, Los Angeles 25: Fethiye leads by 25 points.
Shopping & style. Fethiye 38, Los Angeles 80: Los Angeles leads by 42 points.
Affordability. Fethiye 62, Los Angeles 24: Fethiye leads by 38 points.
Live music & performing arts. Fethiye 15, Los Angeles 83: Los Angeles leads by 68 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Fethiye 55, Los Angeles 60: Los Angeles leads by 5 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Fethiye and Los Angeles.

Your match

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

Fethiye
54match

Wins on prices and getting around with your weighting.

Los Angeles
Best match
64match

Wins on live music and the arts and shopping 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

Los Angeles in July

24 °Cdaytime high
18 °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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FethiyeLos Angeles

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). Los Angeles: 1991-2020 normals, Los Angeles Airport (18.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureFethiyeLos Angeles
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 m106 m
Main airportDalaman International Airport (DLM)30 km from centre61 non-stop destinationsLos Angeles International Airport (LAX)19 km from centre177 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureFethiyeLos Angeles
City population182,2003,898,747
People per km²-2,994
Museums within 10 km139
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
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.