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A paraglider over the beach at Ölüdeniz, Fethiye
FethiyeA paraglider over the beach at Ölüdeniz
The steamboat Natchez on the Mississippi, New Orleans
New OrleansThe steamboat Natchez on the Mississippi

Photos: Fethiye by rheins, CC BY 3.0, cropped; New Orleans by Bernard Spragg, CC0.

Fethiye or New Orleans?

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 New Orleans for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on New Orleans’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, New Orleans 14: Fethiye leads by 68 points.
Food & drink. Fethiye 45, New Orleans 84: New Orleans leads by 39 points.
Culture & sights. Fethiye 35, New Orleans 67: New Orleans leads by 32 points.
Nightlife. Fethiye 42, New Orleans 85: New Orleans leads by 43 points.
Nature & outdoors. Fethiye 84, New Orleans 42: Fethiye leads by 42 points.
Day trips. Fethiye 76, New Orleans 52: Fethiye leads by 24 points.
Good for families. Fethiye 60, New Orleans 55: Fethiye leads by 5 points.
Getting around. Fethiye 50, New Orleans 55: New Orleans leads by 5 points.
Shopping & style. Fethiye 38, New Orleans 54: New Orleans leads by 16 points.
Affordability. Fethiye 62, New Orleans 40: Fethiye leads by 22 points.
Live music & performing arts. Fethiye 15, New Orleans 80: New Orleans leads by 65 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Fethiye 55, New Orleans 25: Fethiye leads by 30 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Fethiye and New Orleans.

Your match

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

Too close to call, level with your weighting

Fethiye
54match

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

New Orleans
54match

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

New Orleans in July

33 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
169 mmrain in the month
30 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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FethiyeNew Orleans

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). New Orleans: 1991-2020 normals, New Orleans Airport (2.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureFethiyeNew Orleans
Official languageTurkish-
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC-6, UTC-5 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation0 m-2 m
Main airportDalaman International Airport (DLM)30 km from centre61 non-stop destinationsLouis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport (MSY)18 km from centre51 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureFethiyeNew Orleans
City population182,200383,997
People per km²-423
Museums within 10 km116
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °C6 months7 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.