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A paraglider over the beach at Ölüdeniz, Fethiye
FethiyeA paraglider over the beach at Ölüdeniz
The cathedral from the gardens, Malaga
MalagaThe cathedral from the gardens

Photos: Fethiye by rheins, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Malaga by Holger Uwe Schmitt, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Fethiye or Malaga?

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

  • wellness
  • nature and the outdoors
  • prices

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

Choose Malaga for

  • culture and sights
  • live music and the arts
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on Malaga’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, Malaga 77: Fethiye leads by 5 points.
Food & drink. Fethiye 45, Malaga 68: Malaga leads by 23 points.
Culture & sights. Fethiye 35, Malaga 65: Malaga leads by 30 points.
Nightlife. Fethiye 42, Malaga 62: Malaga leads by 20 points.
Nature & outdoors. Fethiye 84, Malaga 73: Fethiye leads by 11 points.
Day trips. Fethiye 76, Malaga 87: Malaga leads by 11 points.
Good for families. Fethiye 60, Malaga 70: Malaga leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Fethiye 50, Malaga 70: Malaga leads by 20 points.
Shopping & style. Fethiye 38, Malaga 55: Malaga leads by 17 points.
Affordability. Fethiye 62, Malaga 55: Fethiye leads by 7 points.
Live music & performing arts. Fethiye 15, Malaga 45: Malaga leads by 30 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Fethiye 55, Malaga 42: Fethiye leads by 13 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Fethiye and Malaga.

Your match

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

Fethiye
54match

Wins on wellness and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Malaga
Best match
64match

Wins on culture and sights 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
No recordsunshine a day
26 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Malaga in July

31 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
22 °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). Malaga: 1991-2020 normals, Malaga / Aeropuerto (8.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureFethiyeMalaga
Official languageTurkishSpanish
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 m18 m
Main airportDalaman International Airport (DLM)30 km from centre61 non-stop destinationsMálaga-Costa del Sol Airport (AGP)8 km from centre166 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureFethiyeMalaga
City population182,200599,063
People per km²-1,517
Museums within 10 km132
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Swim season, months above 21 °C6 months3 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.