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A paraglider over the beach at Ölüdeniz, Fethiye
FethiyeA paraglider over the beach at Ölüdeniz
Palms at CityPlace on Rosemary Avenue, West Palm Beach
West Palm BeachPalms at CityPlace on Rosemary Avenue

Photos: Fethiye by rheins, CC BY 3.0, cropped; West Palm Beach by Michael Rivera, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Fethiye or West Palm 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
  • day trips

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

Choose West Palm Beach for

  • live music and the arts
  • shopping
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on West Palm 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, West Palm Beach 80: Fethiye leads by 2 points.
Food & drink. Fethiye 45, West Palm Beach 52: West Palm Beach leads by 7 points.
Culture & sights. Fethiye 35, West Palm Beach 42: West Palm Beach leads by 7 points.
Nightlife. Fethiye 42, West Palm Beach 36: Fethiye leads by 6 points.
Nature & outdoors. Fethiye 84, West Palm Beach 58: Fethiye leads by 26 points.
Day trips. Fethiye 76, West Palm Beach 55: Fethiye leads by 21 points.
Good for families. Fethiye 60, West Palm Beach 66: West Palm Beach leads by 6 points.
Getting around. Fethiye 50, West Palm Beach 38: Fethiye leads by 12 points.
Shopping & style. Fethiye 38, West Palm Beach 64: West Palm Beach leads by 26 points.
Affordability. Fethiye 62, West Palm Beach 23: Fethiye leads by 39 points.
Live music & performing arts. Fethiye 15, West Palm Beach 47: West Palm Beach leads by 32 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Fethiye 55, West Palm Beach 44: Fethiye leads by 11 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Fethiye and West Palm 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.

West Palm Beach
50match

Wins on live music and the arts and shopping 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

West Palm Beach in July

32 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
145 mmrain in the month
29 °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.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Fethiye: 2000-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Dalaman (30.8 km from centre). West Palm Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Palm Beach International (5.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureFethiyeWest Palm 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 m6 m
Main airportDalaman International Airport (DLM)30 km from centre61 non-stop destinationsPresident Donald J. Trump International Airport (DJT)6 km from centre42 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureFethiyeWest Palm Beach
City population182,200117,415
People per km²-786
Museums within 10 km14
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. 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.