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A paraglider over the beach at Ölüdeniz, Fethiye
FethiyeA paraglider over the beach at Ölüdeniz
A bright beach on turquoise water at Montego Bay, Montego Bay
Montego BayA bright beach on turquoise water at Montego Bay

Photos: Fethiye by rheins, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Montego Bay by Dre Dawkcide, Pexels License.

Fethiye or Montego Bay?

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

  • getting around
  • day trips
  • prices

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

Choose Montego Bay for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Montego Bay’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, Montego Bay 84: Montego Bay leads by 2 points.
Food & drink. Fethiye 45, Montego Bay 50: Montego Bay leads by 5 points.
Culture & sights. Fethiye 35, Montego Bay 28: Fethiye leads by 7 points.
Nightlife. Fethiye and Montego Bay are level on 42.
Nature & outdoors. Fethiye 84, Montego Bay 65: Fethiye leads by 19 points.
Day trips. Fethiye 76, Montego Bay 50: Fethiye leads by 26 points.
Good for families. Fethiye 60, Montego Bay 48: Fethiye leads by 12 points.
Getting around. Fethiye 50, Montego Bay 20: Fethiye leads by 30 points.
Shopping & style. Fethiye 38, Montego Bay 25: Fethiye leads by 13 points.
Affordability. Fethiye 62, Montego Bay 38: Fethiye leads by 24 points.
Live music & performing arts. Fethiye 15, Montego Bay 32: Montego Bay leads by 17 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Fethiye 55, Montego Bay 45: Fethiye leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Fethiye and Montego Bay.

Your match

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

Fethiye
Best match
54match

Wins on getting around and day trips with your weighting.

Montego Bay
44match

Wins on live music and the arts and food and drink 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

Montego Bay in July

34 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
75 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
29 °Csea
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). Montego Bay: 1991-2020 normals, Montego Bay / Sangster (3.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureFethiyeMontego Bay
Official languageTurkishEnglish, Jamaican Patois
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Jamaican Dollar (JMD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB116 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+3UTC-5
Emergency number112Police 110/112/119/911, ambulance 110, fire 110
Elevation0 m19 m
Main airportDalaman International Airport (DLM)30 km from centre61 non-stop destinationsSangster International Airport (MBJ)4 km from centre48 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureFethiyeMontego Bay
City population182,200123,994
Museums within 10 km10
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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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.