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A paraglider over the beach at Ölüdeniz, Fethiye
FethiyeA paraglider over the beach at Ölüdeniz
The White Tower from the promenade, Thessaloniki
ThessalonikiThe White Tower from the promenade

Photos: Fethiye by rheins, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Thessaloniki by Destinygreece, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Fethiye or Thessaloniki?

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
  • wellness
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Thessaloniki for

  • culture and sights
  • live music and the arts
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Thessaloniki’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, Thessaloniki 55: Fethiye leads by 27 points.
Food & drink. Fethiye 45, Thessaloniki 77: Thessaloniki leads by 32 points.
Culture & sights. Fethiye 35, Thessaloniki 73: Thessaloniki leads by 38 points.
Nightlife. Fethiye 42, Thessaloniki 76: Thessaloniki leads by 34 points.
Nature & outdoors. Fethiye 84, Thessaloniki 66: Fethiye leads by 18 points.
Day trips. Fethiye 76, Thessaloniki 74: Fethiye leads by 2 points.
Good for families. Fethiye 60, Thessaloniki 50: Fethiye leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Fethiye 50, Thessaloniki 60: Thessaloniki leads by 10 points.
Shopping & style. Fethiye 38, Thessaloniki 50: Thessaloniki leads by 12 points.
Affordability. Fethiye 62, Thessaloniki 66: Thessaloniki leads by 4 points.
Live music & performing arts. Fethiye 15, Thessaloniki 52: Thessaloniki leads by 37 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Fethiye 55, Thessaloniki 33: Fethiye leads by 22 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Fethiye and Thessaloniki.

Your match

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

Fethiye
54match

Wins on beaches and wellness with your weighting.

Thessaloniki
Best match
61match

Wins on culture and sights and live music and the arts 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

Thessaloniki in July

32 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
23 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
26 °Csea
15 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.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Fethiye: 2000-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Dalaman (30.8 km from centre). Thessaloniki: 1991-2020 normals, Thessaloniki Airport (14 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureFethiyeThessaloniki
Official languageTurkishGreek
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation0 m6 m
Main airportDalaman International Airport (DLM)30 km from centre61 non-stop destinationsThessaloniki Macedonia International Airport (SKG)14 km from centre90 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureFethiyeThessaloniki
City population182,200309,617
People per km²-16,042
Museums within 10 km132
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Swim season, months above 21 °C6 months5 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.