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A paraglider over the beach at Ölüdeniz, Fethiye
FethiyeA paraglider over the beach at Ölüdeniz
The pink Don CeSar hotel seen from the beach, St. Pete Beach
St. Pete BeachThe pink Don CeSar hotel seen from the beach

Photos: Fethiye by rheins, CC BY 3.0, cropped; St. Pete Beach by Jeffrey Eisen, Pexels License.

Fethiye or St. Pete Beach?

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
  • getting around

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

Choose St. Pete Beach for

  • families
  • beaches
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on St. Pete Beach’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, St. Pete Beach 87: St. Pete Beach leads by 5 points.
Food & drink. Fethiye 45, St. Pete Beach 40: Fethiye leads by 5 points.
Culture & sights. Fethiye 35, St. Pete Beach 18: Fethiye leads by 17 points.
Nightlife. Fethiye 42, St. Pete Beach 28: Fethiye leads by 14 points.
Nature & outdoors. Fethiye 84, St. Pete Beach 57: Fethiye leads by 27 points.
Day trips. Fethiye 76, St. Pete Beach 58: Fethiye leads by 18 points.
Good for families. Fethiye 60, St. Pete Beach 72: St. Pete Beach leads by 12 points.
Getting around. Fethiye 50, St. Pete Beach 30: Fethiye leads by 20 points.
Shopping & style. Fethiye 38, St. Pete Beach 20: Fethiye leads by 18 points.
Affordability. Fethiye 62, St. Pete Beach 32: Fethiye leads by 30 points.
Live music & performing arts. Fethiye 15, St. Pete Beach 20: St. Pete Beach leads by 5 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Fethiye 55, St. Pete Beach 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 St. Pete Beach.

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.

St. Pete Beach
42match

Wins on families and beaches 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

St. Pete Beach in July

32 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
185 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
30 °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.

St. Pete Beach 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.

St. Pete Beach's sunshine is measured 34 km from the centre, at Tampa International Airport.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Fethiye: 2000-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Dalaman (30.8 km from centre). St. Pete Beach: 1998-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Saint Petersburg (12.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureFethiyeSt. Pete Beach
Official languageTurkish-
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation0 m2 m
Main airportDalaman International Airport (DLM)30 km from centre61 non-stop destinationsSt. Petersburg Clearwater International Airport (PIE)21 km from centre60 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureFethiyeSt. Pete Beach
City population182,2008,879
People per km²-173
Museums within 10 km12
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °C6 months8 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.