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A paraglider over the beach at Ölüdeniz, Fethiye
FethiyeA paraglider over the beach at Ölüdeniz
Hawthorne Bridge and downtown, Portland
PortlandHawthorne Bridge and downtown

Photos: Fethiye by rheins, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Portland by Cacophony, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Fethiye or Portland?

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
  • prices
  • day trips

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

Choose Portland for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Portland’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, Portland 20: Fethiye leads by 62 points.
Food & drink. Fethiye 45, Portland 68: Portland leads by 23 points.
Culture & sights. Fethiye 35, Portland 38: Portland leads by 3 points.
Nightlife. Fethiye 42, Portland 52: Portland leads by 10 points.
Nature & outdoors. Fethiye and Portland are level on 84.
Day trips. Fethiye 76, Portland 58: Fethiye leads by 18 points.
Good for families. Fethiye 60, Portland 55: Fethiye leads by 5 points.
Getting around. Fethiye 50, Portland 62: Portland leads by 12 points.
Shopping & style. Fethiye 38, Portland 52: Portland leads by 14 points.
Affordability. Fethiye 62, Portland 38: Fethiye leads by 24 points.
Live music & performing arts. Fethiye 15, Portland 55: Portland leads by 40 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Fethiye 55, Portland 42: Fethiye leads by 13 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Fethiye and Portland.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Fethiye
54match

Wins on beaches and prices with your weighting.

Portland
52match

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
26 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Portland in July

27 °Cdaytime high
15 °Cnight-time low
13 mmrain in the month
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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FethiyePortland

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). Portland: 1991-2020 normals, Portland International Airport (9.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureFethiyePortland
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 m152 m
Main airportDalaman International Airport (DLM)30 km from centre61 non-stop destinationsPortland International Airport (PDX)10 km from centre88 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureFethiyePortland
City population182,200652,503
People per km²-1,736
Museums within 10 km117
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.