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The beach with the bay and the skyline behind, Acapulco
AcapulcoThe beach with the bay and the skyline behind
Bodrum Castle and gulets in the harbour, Bodrum
BodrumBodrum Castle and gulets in the harbour

Photos: Acapulco by Felicia Navarrete, Pexels License; Bodrum by Serhio Magpie, CC BY 4.0, cropped.

Acapulco or Bodrum?

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 Acapulco for

  • prices

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

Choose Bodrum for

  • day trips
  • families
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Bodrum’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. Acapulco and Bodrum are level on 80.
Food & drink. Acapulco 55, Bodrum 60: Bodrum leads by 5 points.
Culture & sights. Acapulco 28, Bodrum 45: Bodrum leads by 17 points.
Nightlife. Acapulco 64, Bodrum 65: Bodrum leads by 1 points.
Nature & outdoors. Acapulco 50, Bodrum 60: Bodrum leads by 10 points.
Day trips. Acapulco 15, Bodrum 72: Bodrum leads by 57 points.
Good for families. Acapulco 45, Bodrum 66: Bodrum leads by 21 points.
Getting around. Acapulco 30, Bodrum 42: Bodrum leads by 12 points.
Shopping & style. Acapulco 32, Bodrum 45: Bodrum leads by 13 points.
Affordability. Acapulco 74, Bodrum 38: Acapulco leads by 36 points.
Live music & performing arts. Acapulco 26, Bodrum 32: Bodrum leads by 6 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Acapulco 32, Bodrum 52: Bodrum leads by 20 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Acapulco and Bodrum.

Your match

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

Acapulco
44match

Wins on prices with your weighting.

Bodrum
Best match
55match

Wins on day trips and families with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Acapulco in July

34 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
226 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
30 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Bodrum in July

31 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
2 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
24 °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

Bodrum's temperatures are measured 43 km from the centre, at Kos Airport.

Bodrum 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. Acapulco: 1991-2020 normals, Acapulco, Gro. (5.9 km from centre). Bodrum: 1993-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Kos Airport (42.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAcapulcoBodrum
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaTurkish
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Turkish Lira (TRY)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6UTC+3
Emergency number911112
Elevation18 m10 m
Main airportGeneral Juan N. Álvarez International Airport (ACA)18 km from centre10 non-stop destinationsMilas Bodrum International Airport (BJV)32 km from centre83 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureAcapulcoBodrum
City population658,609175,000
People per km²350314
Museums within 10 km34
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 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). 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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.