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A paraglider over the beach at Ölüdeniz, Fethiye
FethiyeA paraglider over the beach at Ölüdeniz
Wat Xieng Thong temple, Luang Prabang
Luang PrabangWat Xieng Thong temple

Photos: Fethiye by rheins, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Luang Prabang by Basile Morin, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Fethiye or Luang Prabang?

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
  • day trips
  • nightlife

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

Choose Luang Prabang for

  • culture and sights
  • prices
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Luang Prabang’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, Luang Prabang 14: Fethiye leads by 68 points.
Food & drink. Fethiye 45, Luang Prabang 42: Fethiye leads by 3 points.
Culture & sights. Fethiye 35, Luang Prabang 65: Luang Prabang leads by 30 points.
Nightlife. Fethiye 42, Luang Prabang 8: Fethiye leads by 34 points.
Nature & outdoors. Fethiye 84, Luang Prabang 68: Fethiye leads by 16 points.
Day trips. Fethiye 76, Luang Prabang 35: Fethiye leads by 41 points.
Good for families. Fethiye 60, Luang Prabang 38: Fethiye leads by 22 points.
Getting around. Fethiye and Luang Prabang are level on 50.
Shopping & style. Fethiye and Luang Prabang are level on 38.
Affordability. Fethiye 62, Luang Prabang 80: Luang Prabang leads by 18 points.
Live music & performing arts. Fethiye 15, Luang Prabang 18: Luang Prabang leads by 3 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Fethiye 55, Luang Prabang 60: Luang Prabang leads by 5 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Fethiye and Luang Prabang.

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 day trips with your weighting.

Luang Prabang
43match

Wins on culture and sights and prices 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

Luang Prabang in July

33 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
250 mmrain in the month
4 hsunshine a day
No seasea
13 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). Luang Prabang: 1991-2020 normals, Luang-Prabang (0.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureFethiyeLuang Prabang
Official languageTurkishLao
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Lao Kip (LAK)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzABCEF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC+7
Emergency number112Police 191, ambulance 195, fire 190
Elevation0 m305 m
Main airportDalaman International Airport (DLM)30 km from centre61 non-stop destinationsLuang Phabang International Airport (LPQ)4 km from centre7 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days-

By the numbers

MeasureFethiyeLuang Prabang
City population182,20053,792
Museums within 10 km10
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.