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A paraglider over the beach at Ölüdeniz, Fethiye
FethiyeA paraglider over the beach at Ölüdeniz
The Christuskirche among palms, Windhoek
WindhoekThe Christuskirche among palms

Photos: Fethiye by rheins, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Windhoek by Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Fethiye or Windhoek?

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
  • day trips
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Windhoek for

  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Windhoek’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, Windhoek 4: Fethiye leads by 78 points.
Food & drink. Fethiye 45, Windhoek 36: Fethiye leads by 9 points.
Culture & sights. Fethiye 35, Windhoek 30: Fethiye leads by 5 points.
Nightlife. Fethiye 42, Windhoek 25: Fethiye leads by 17 points.
Nature & outdoors. Fethiye 84, Windhoek 52: Fethiye leads by 32 points.
Day trips. Fethiye 76, Windhoek 14: Fethiye leads by 62 points.
Good for families. Fethiye 60, Windhoek 30: Fethiye leads by 30 points.
Getting around. Fethiye 50, Windhoek 22: Fethiye leads by 28 points.
Shopping & style. Fethiye 38, Windhoek 30: Fethiye leads by 8 points.
Affordability. Fethiye and Windhoek are level on 62.
Live music & performing arts. Fethiye 15, Windhoek 18: Windhoek leads by 3 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Fethiye 55, Windhoek 30: Fethiye leads by 25 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Fethiye and Windhoek.

Your match

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

Fethiye
Best match
54match

Wins on beaches and day trips with your weighting.

Windhoek
29match

Wins on 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
26 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Windhoek in July

22 °Cdaytime high
7 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
No seasea
11 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). Windhoek: 1991-2020 normals, Windhoek (1.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureFethiyeWindhoek
Official languageTurkishEnglish
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Namibia Dollar (NAD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzM220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+3UTC+2
Emergency number112112
Elevation0 m1,650 m
Main airportDalaman International Airport (DLM)30 km from centre61 non-stop destinationsHosea Kutako International Airport (WDH)41 km from centre15 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureFethiyeWindhoek
City population182,200486,169
People per km²-95
Museums within 10 km15
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °C6 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.