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A paraglider over the beach at Ölüdeniz, Fethiye
FethiyeA paraglider over the beach at Ölüdeniz
Palm Canyon Drive, lined with tall palms, Palm Springs
Palm SpringsPalm Canyon Drive, lined with tall palms

Photos: Fethiye by rheins, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Palm Springs by Domenico Convertini, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Fethiye or Palm Springs?

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
  • day trips
  • prices

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

Choose Palm Springs for

  • live music and the arts
  • wellness
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on Palm Springs’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, Palm Springs 7: Fethiye leads by 75 points.
Food & drink. Fethiye 45, Palm Springs 40: Fethiye leads by 5 points.
Culture & sights. Fethiye 35, Palm Springs 42: Palm Springs leads by 7 points.
Nightlife. Fethiye 42, Palm Springs 36: Fethiye leads by 6 points.
Nature & outdoors. Fethiye 84, Palm Springs 78: Fethiye leads by 6 points.
Day trips. Fethiye 76, Palm Springs 38: Fethiye leads by 38 points.
Good for families. Fethiye 60, Palm Springs 40: Fethiye leads by 20 points.
Getting around. Fethiye 50, Palm Springs 22: Fethiye leads by 28 points.
Shopping & style. Fethiye 38, Palm Springs 44: Palm Springs leads by 6 points.
Affordability. Fethiye 62, Palm Springs 32: Fethiye leads by 30 points.
Live music & performing arts. Fethiye 15, Palm Springs 40: Palm Springs leads by 25 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Fethiye 55, Palm Springs 80: Palm Springs leads by 25 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Fethiye and Palm Springs.

Your match

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

Fethiye
Best match
54match

Wins on beaches and day trips with your weighting.

Palm Springs
42match

Wins on live music and the arts and wellness 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

Palm Springs in July

42 °Cdaytime high
28 °Cnight-time low
5 mmrain in the month
No seasea
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.

Palm Springs 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). Palm Springs: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Palm Springs (2.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureFethiyePalm Springs
Official languageTurkish-
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation0 m146 m
Main airportDalaman International Airport (DLM)30 km from centre61 non-stop destinationsPalm Springs International Airport (PSP)2 km from centre29 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureFethiyePalm Springs
City population182,20044,575
People per km²-181
Museums within 10 km13
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
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.