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A paraglider over the beach at Ölüdeniz, Fethiye
FethiyeA paraglider over the beach at Ölüdeniz
Stortorget in Gamla stan, Stockholm
StockholmStortorget in Gamla stan

Photos: Fethiye by rheins, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Stockholm by Jorge Franganillo, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Fethiye or Stockholm?

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
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Stockholm for

  • live music and the arts
  • culture and sights
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Stockholm’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, Stockholm 40: Fethiye leads by 42 points.
Food & drink. Fethiye 45, Stockholm 64: Stockholm leads by 19 points.
Culture & sights. Fethiye 35, Stockholm 77: Stockholm leads by 42 points.
Nightlife. Fethiye 42, Stockholm 57: Stockholm leads by 15 points.
Nature & outdoors. Fethiye 84, Stockholm 72: Fethiye leads by 12 points.
Day trips. Fethiye 76, Stockholm 68: Fethiye leads by 8 points.
Good for families. Fethiye 60, Stockholm 82: Stockholm leads by 22 points.
Getting around. Fethiye 50, Stockholm 84: Stockholm leads by 34 points.
Shopping & style. Fethiye 38, Stockholm 70: Stockholm leads by 32 points.
Affordability. Fethiye 62, Stockholm 30: Fethiye leads by 32 points.
Live music & performing arts. Fethiye 15, Stockholm 65: Stockholm leads by 50 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Fethiye 55, Stockholm 56: Stockholm leads by 1 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Fethiye and Stockholm.

Your match

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

Fethiye
54match

Wins on beaches and prices with your weighting.

Stockholm
Best match
64match

Wins on live music and the arts and culture and sights 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

Stockholm in July

23 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
65 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
16 °Csea
18 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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FethiyeStockholm

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.

Stockholm 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.

Stockholm's sunshine is measured 26 km from the centre, at Stockholm Observatoriet.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Fethiye: 2000-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Dalaman (30.8 km from centre). Stockholm: 2003-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Stockholm Bromma Airport (7.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureFethiyeStockholm
Official languageTurkishSwedish
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Swedish Krona (SEK)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation0 m22 m
Main airportDalaman International Airport (DLM)30 km from centre61 non-stop destinationsStockholm-Arlanda Airport (ARN)36 km from centre174 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureFethiyeStockholm
City population182,200984,748
People per km²-5,260
Museums within 10 km1266
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km13
Swim season, months above 21 °C6 monthsNone

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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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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.