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A paraglider over the beach at Ölüdeniz, Fethiye
FethiyeA paraglider over the beach at Ölüdeniz
White sand and turquoise water at Pensacola Beach, Pensacola
PensacolaWhite sand and turquoise water at Pensacola Beach

Photos: Fethiye by rheins, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Pensacola by Jason Meredith, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Fethiye or Pensacola?

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
  • wellness

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

Choose Pensacola for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Pensacola’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, Pensacola 84: Pensacola leads by 2 points.
Food & drink. Fethiye and Pensacola are level on 45.
Culture & sights. Fethiye 35, Pensacola 45: Pensacola leads by 10 points.
Nightlife. Fethiye and Pensacola are level on 42.
Nature & outdoors. Fethiye 84, Pensacola 62: Fethiye leads by 22 points.
Day trips. Fethiye 76, Pensacola 45: Fethiye leads by 31 points.
Good for families. Fethiye 60, Pensacola 62: Pensacola leads by 2 points.
Getting around. Fethiye 50, Pensacola 18: Fethiye leads by 32 points.
Shopping & style. Fethiye 38, Pensacola 28: Fethiye leads by 10 points.
Affordability. Fethiye 62, Pensacola 44: Fethiye leads by 18 points.
Live music & performing arts. Fethiye 15, Pensacola 36: Pensacola leads by 21 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Fethiye 55, Pensacola 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 Pensacola.

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.

Pensacola
45match

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
26 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Pensacola in July

33 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
200 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). Pensacola: 1991-2020 normals, Pensacola / Pleasant Grove (12.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureFethiyePensacola
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 m31 m
Main airportDalaman International Airport (DLM)30 km from centre61 non-stop destinationsPensacola International Airport (PNS)6 km from centre27 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureFethiyePensacola
City population182,20054,312
People per km²-515
Museums within 10 km15
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.