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A paraglider over the beach at Ölüdeniz, Fethiye
FethiyeA paraglider over the beach at Ölüdeniz
Palermo Cathedral, Palermo
PalermoPalermo Cathedral

Photos: Fethiye by rheins, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Palermo by Antonino Giangrasso, Pexels License.

Fethiye or Palermo?

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

  • wellness
  • families
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Palermo for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Palermo’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, Palermo 77: Fethiye leads by 5 points.
Food & drink. Fethiye 45, Palermo 81: Palermo leads by 36 points.
Culture & sights. Fethiye 35, Palermo 80: Palermo leads by 45 points.
Nightlife. Fethiye 42, Palermo 58: Palermo leads by 16 points.
Nature & outdoors. Fethiye 84, Palermo 72: Fethiye leads by 12 points.
Day trips. Fethiye 76, Palermo 84: Palermo leads by 8 points.
Good for families. Fethiye 60, Palermo 44: Fethiye leads by 16 points.
Getting around. Fethiye and Palermo are level on 50.
Shopping & style. Fethiye 38, Palermo 44: Palermo leads by 6 points.
Affordability. Fethiye 62, Palermo 63: Palermo leads by 1 points.
Live music & performing arts. Fethiye 15, Palermo 62: Palermo leads by 47 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Fethiye 55, Palermo 30: Fethiye leads by 25 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Fethiye and Palermo.

Your match

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

Fethiye
54match

Wins on wellness and families with your weighting.

Palermo
Best match
62match

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

Palermo in July

29 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
2 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
26 °Csea
15 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.

Palermo 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.

Palermo's sunshine is measured 67 km from the centre, at Ustica.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Fethiye: 2000-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Dalaman (30.8 km from centre). Palermo: 1991-2020 (sunshine 1961-1990) normals, Palermo / Punta Raisi (24.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureFethiyePalermo
Official languageTurkishItalian
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation0 m14 m
Main airportDalaman International Airport (DLM)30 km from centre61 non-stop destinationsFalcone–Borsellino Airport (PMO)25 km from centre106 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureFethiyePalermo
City population182,200630,167
People per km²-3,924
Museums within 10 km142
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Swim season, months above 21 °C6 months5 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.