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A paraglider over the beach at Ölüdeniz, Fethiye
FethiyeA paraglider over the beach at Ölüdeniz
A purple lifeguard tower on South Beach, Miami Beach
Miami BeachA purple lifeguard tower on South Beach

Photos: Fethiye by rheins, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Miami Beach by Radomianin, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Fethiye or Miami Beach?

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
  • nature and the outdoors
  • day trips

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

Choose Miami Beach for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Miami Beach’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, Miami Beach 92: Miami Beach leads by 10 points.
Food & drink. Fethiye 45, Miami Beach 62: Miami Beach leads by 17 points.
Culture & sights. Fethiye 35, Miami Beach 52: Miami Beach leads by 17 points.
Nightlife. Fethiye 42, Miami Beach 80: Miami Beach leads by 38 points.
Nature & outdoors. Fethiye 84, Miami Beach 52: Fethiye leads by 32 points.
Day trips. Fethiye 76, Miami Beach 55: Fethiye leads by 21 points.
Good for families. Fethiye and Miami Beach are level on 60.
Getting around. Fethiye 50, Miami Beach 58: Miami Beach leads by 8 points.
Shopping & style. Fethiye 38, Miami Beach 55: Miami Beach leads by 17 points.
Affordability. Fethiye 62, Miami Beach 20: Fethiye leads by 42 points.
Live music & performing arts. Fethiye 15, Miami Beach 55: Miami Beach leads by 40 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Fethiye 55, Miami Beach 48: Fethiye leads by 7 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Fethiye and Miami Beach.

Your match

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

Fethiye
54match

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

Miami Beach
Best match
57match

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
26 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Miami Beach in July

33 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
186 mmrain in the month
29 °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). Miami Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Miami International Airport (18.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureFethiyeMiami Beach
Official languageTurkish-
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation0 m1 m
Main airportDalaman International Airport (DLM)30 km from centre61 non-stop destinationsMiami International Airport (MIA)16 km from centre198 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureFethiyeMiami Beach
City population182,20082,890
People per km²-2,109
Museums within 10 km114
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °C6 months12 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.