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A paraglider over the beach at Ölüdeniz, Fethiye
FethiyeA paraglider over the beach at Ölüdeniz
Flinders Street Station, Melbourne
MelbourneFlinders Street Station

Photos: Fethiye by rheins, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Melbourne by Medelam, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Fethiye or Melbourne?

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
  • prices
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Melbourne for

  • live music and the arts
  • nightlife
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Melbourne’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, Melbourne 50: Fethiye leads by 32 points.
Food & drink. Fethiye 45, Melbourne 75: Melbourne leads by 30 points.
Culture & sights. Fethiye 35, Melbourne 57: Melbourne leads by 22 points.
Nightlife. Fethiye 42, Melbourne 75: Melbourne leads by 33 points.
Nature & outdoors. Fethiye 84, Melbourne 70: Fethiye leads by 14 points.
Day trips. Fethiye 76, Melbourne 62: Fethiye leads by 14 points.
Good for families. Fethiye 60, Melbourne 73: Melbourne leads by 13 points.
Getting around. Fethiye 50, Melbourne 76: Melbourne leads by 26 points.
Shopping & style. Fethiye 38, Melbourne 70: Melbourne leads by 32 points.
Affordability. Fethiye 62, Melbourne 31: Fethiye leads by 31 points.
Live music & performing arts. Fethiye 15, Melbourne 72: Melbourne leads by 57 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Fethiye 55, Melbourne 54: Fethiye leads by 1 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Fethiye and Melbourne.

Your match

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

Fethiye
54match

Wins on beaches and prices with your weighting.

Melbourne
Best match
64match

Wins on live music and the arts and nightlife 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

Melbourne in July

14 °Cdaytime high
6 °Cnight-time low
46 mmrain in the month
4 hsunshine a day
12 °Csea
10 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). Melbourne: 1991-2020 normals, Latrobe University / Kingsbury (13.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureFethiyeMelbourne
Official languageTurkishEnglish
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Australian Dollar (AUD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzI230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+3UTC+10, UTC+11 in summer
Emergency number112000
Elevation0 m31 m
Main airportDalaman International Airport (DLM)30 km from centre61 non-stop destinationsMelbourne Airport (MEL)19 km from centre69 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureFethiyeMelbourne
City population182,2005,350,705
People per km²-535
Museums within 10 km143
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.