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A paraglider over the beach at Ölüdeniz, Fethiye
FethiyeA paraglider over the beach at Ölüdeniz
Playa Manzanillo, Puerto Escondido
Puerto EscondidoPlaya Manzanillo

Photos: Fethiye by rheins, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Puerto Escondido by theklan, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Fethiye or Puerto Escondido?

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

  • day trips
  • culture and sights
  • families

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

Choose Puerto Escondido for

  • prices
  • food and drink
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Puerto Escondido’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 and Puerto Escondido are level on 82.
Food & drink. Fethiye 45, Puerto Escondido 48: Puerto Escondido leads by 3 points.
Culture & sights. Fethiye 35, Puerto Escondido 8: Fethiye leads by 27 points.
Nightlife. Fethiye 42, Puerto Escondido 45: Puerto Escondido leads by 3 points.
Nature & outdoors. Fethiye 84, Puerto Escondido 78: Fethiye leads by 6 points.
Day trips. Fethiye 76, Puerto Escondido 35: Fethiye leads by 41 points.
Good for families. Fethiye 60, Puerto Escondido 42: Fethiye leads by 18 points.
Getting around. Fethiye 50, Puerto Escondido 40: Fethiye leads by 10 points.
Shopping & style. Fethiye 38, Puerto Escondido 22: Fethiye leads by 16 points.
Affordability. Fethiye 62, Puerto Escondido 68: Puerto Escondido leads by 6 points.
Live music & performing arts. Fethiye 15, Puerto Escondido 12: Fethiye leads by 3 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Fethiye 55, Puerto Escondido 58: Puerto Escondido leads by 3 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Fethiye and Puerto Escondido.

Your match

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

Fethiye
Best match
54match

Wins on day trips and culture and sights with your weighting.

Puerto Escondido
45match

Wins on prices 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
No recordsunshine a day
26 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Puerto Escondido in July

33 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
116 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
30 °Csea
13 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.

Puerto Escondido's temperatures are measured 66 km from the centre, at Puerto Angel, Oax..

Puerto Escondido 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). Puerto Escondido: 1991-2020 normals, Puerto Angel, Oax. (65.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureFethiyePuerto Escondido
Official languageTurkishSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC-6
Emergency number112911
Elevation0 m60 m
Main airportDalaman International Airport (DLM)30 km from centre61 non-stop destinationsPuerto Escondido International Airport (PXM)2 km from centre10 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureFethiyePuerto Escondido
City population182,20029,903
Museums within 10 km10
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °C6 months12 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.