VacationSelector
A paraglider over the beach at Ölüdeniz, Fethiye
FethiyeA paraglider over the beach at Ölüdeniz
The old town from the sea, Rovinj
RovinjThe old town from the sea

Photos: Fethiye by rheins, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Rovinj by Vyacheslav Bukharov, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Fethiye or Rovinj?

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

  • prices
  • nature and the outdoors
  • nightlife

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

Choose Rovinj for

  • food and drink
  • getting around
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on Rovinj’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, Rovinj 70: Fethiye leads by 12 points.
Food & drink. Fethiye 45, Rovinj 50: Rovinj leads by 5 points.
Culture & sights. Fethiye 35, Rovinj 38: Rovinj leads by 3 points.
Nightlife. Fethiye 42, Rovinj 25: Fethiye leads by 17 points.
Nature & outdoors. Fethiye 84, Rovinj 60: Fethiye leads by 24 points.
Day trips. Fethiye 76, Rovinj 68: Fethiye leads by 8 points.
Good for families. Fethiye 60, Rovinj 52: Fethiye leads by 8 points.
Getting around. Fethiye 50, Rovinj 55: Rovinj leads by 5 points.
Shopping & style. Fethiye 38, Rovinj 28: Fethiye leads by 10 points.
Affordability. Fethiye 62, Rovinj 36: Fethiye leads by 26 points.
Live music & performing arts. Fethiye and Rovinj are level on 15.
Wellness & relaxation. Fethiye 55, Rovinj 42: Fethiye leads by 13 points.
0255075100

What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Fethiye and Rovinj.

Your match

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

Fethiye
Best match
54match

Wins on prices and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Rovinj
45match

Wins on food and drink and getting around 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

Rovinj in July

29 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
44 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
25 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

0°10°20°30°40°JFMAMJJASOND

Rainfall in the month, mm

050100150200JFMAMJJASOND
FethiyeRovinj

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.

Rovinj's temperatures are measured 64 km from the centre, at Trieste.

Rovinj 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). Rovinj: 1991-2020 normals, Trieste (63.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureFethiyeRovinj
Official languageTurkishCroatian
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation0 m0 m
Main airportDalaman International Airport (DLM)30 km from centre61 non-stop destinationsPula Airport (PUY)31 km from centre34 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureFethiyeRovinj
City population182,20012,968
Museums within 10 km11
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Swim season, months above 21 °C6 months4 months

Where else could you go?

Every comparison below shares a destination with this one, so you can follow Fethiye or Rovinj somewhere new.

Browse every destination

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.