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A paraglider over the beach at Ölüdeniz, Fethiye
FethiyeA paraglider over the beach at Ölüdeniz
Barlas Island in Honda Bay, Puerto Princesa
Puerto PrincesaBarlas Island in Honda Bay

Photos: Fethiye by rheins, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Puerto Princesa by Ray in Manila, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Fethiye or Puerto Princesa?

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
  • beaches
  • getting around

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

Choose Puerto Princesa for

  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Puerto Princesa’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, Puerto Princesa 58: Fethiye leads by 24 points.
Food & drink. Fethiye 45, Puerto Princesa 38: Fethiye leads by 7 points.
Culture & sights. Fethiye 35, Puerto Princesa 22: Fethiye leads by 13 points.
Nightlife. Fethiye 42, Puerto Princesa 26: Fethiye leads by 16 points.
Nature & outdoors. Fethiye 84, Puerto Princesa 80: Fethiye leads by 4 points.
Day trips. Fethiye 76, Puerto Princesa 12: Fethiye leads by 64 points.
Good for families. Fethiye 60, Puerto Princesa 45: Fethiye leads by 15 points.
Getting around. Fethiye 50, Puerto Princesa 30: Fethiye leads by 20 points.
Shopping & style. Fethiye 38, Puerto Princesa 20: Fethiye leads by 18 points.
Affordability. Fethiye 62, Puerto Princesa 78: Puerto Princesa leads by 16 points.
Live music & performing arts. Fethiye 15, Puerto Princesa 10: Fethiye leads by 5 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Fethiye 55, Puerto Princesa 40: Fethiye leads by 15 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Fethiye and Puerto Princesa.

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 beaches with your weighting.

Puerto Princesa
38match

Wins on prices 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

Puerto Princesa in July

29 °Cdaytime high
27 °Cnight-time low
216 mmrain in the month
29 °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 Princesa has no weather station within reach, so its figures come from a gridded climate model rather than a measured record, and read a broad area rather than the city itself.

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 Princesa: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureFethiyePuerto Princesa
Official languageTurkishEnglish, Filipino, Taglish
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Philippine Peso (PHP)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzABC220 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC+8
Emergency number112911
Elevation0 m98 m
Main airportDalaman International Airport (DLM)30 km from centre61 non-stop destinationsPuerto Princesa International Airport / PAF Antonio Bautista Air Base (PPS)2 km from centre5 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days18 days

By the numbers

MeasureFethiyePuerto Princesa
City population182,200316,384
People per km²-133
Museums within 10 km11
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. Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. 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.