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A paraglider over the beach at Ölüdeniz, Fethiye
FethiyeA paraglider over the beach at Ölüdeniz
The Metropolitan Cathedral on the Zócalo, Mexico City
Mexico CityThe Metropolitan Cathedral on the Zócalo

Photos: Fethiye by rheins, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Mexico City by Oscar Dominguez, Pexels License.

Fethiye or Mexico City?

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
  • nature and the outdoors
  • wellness

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

Choose Mexico City for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Mexico City’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, Mexico City 5: Fethiye leads by 77 points.
Food & drink. Fethiye 45, Mexico City 90: Mexico City leads by 45 points.
Culture & sights. Fethiye 35, Mexico City 88: Mexico City leads by 53 points.
Nightlife. Fethiye 42, Mexico City 80: Mexico City leads by 38 points.
Nature & outdoors. Fethiye 84, Mexico City 50: Fethiye leads by 34 points.
Day trips. Fethiye 76, Mexico City 75: Fethiye leads by 1 points.
Good for families. Fethiye 60, Mexico City 58: Fethiye leads by 2 points.
Getting around. Fethiye and Mexico City are level on 50.
Shopping & style. Fethiye 38, Mexico City 76: Mexico City leads by 38 points.
Affordability. Fethiye 62, Mexico City 75: Mexico City leads by 13 points.
Live music & performing arts. Fethiye 15, Mexico City 72: Mexico City leads by 57 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Fethiye 55, Mexico City 40: Fethiye leads by 15 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Fethiye and Mexico City.

Your match

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

Fethiye
54match

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

Mexico City
Best match
63match

Wins on live music and the arts and culture and sights 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

Mexico City in July

25 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
176 mmrain in the month
6 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). Mexico City: 1991-2020 normals, Mexico Central, D. F. (7.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureFethiyeMexico City
Official languageTurkishSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC-6
Emergency number112911
Elevation0 m2,240 m
Main airportDalaman International Airport (DLM)30 km from centre61 non-stop destinationsMexico City Benito Juárez International Airport (MEX)7 km from centre109 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureFethiyeMexico City
City population182,2009,209,944
People per km²-6,202
Museums within 10 km1108
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km16
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.