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The Adelaide skyline and the footbridge over the River Torrens, Adelaide
AdelaideThe Adelaide skyline and the footbridge over the River Torrens
Bodrum Castle and gulets in the harbour, Bodrum
BodrumBodrum Castle and gulets in the harbour

Photos: Adelaide by Ardash Muradian, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Bodrum by Serhio Magpie, CC BY 4.0, cropped.

Adelaide 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 Adelaide for

  • live music and the arts
  • getting around
  • food and drink

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

Choose Bodrum for

  • nightlife
  • beaches
  • day trips

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. Adelaide 68, Bodrum 80: Bodrum leads by 12 points.
Food & drink. Adelaide 72, Bodrum 60: Adelaide leads by 12 points.
Culture & sights. Adelaide 48, Bodrum 45: Adelaide leads by 3 points.
Nightlife. Adelaide 42, Bodrum 65: Bodrum leads by 23 points.
Nature & outdoors. Adelaide 66, Bodrum 60: Adelaide leads by 6 points.
Day trips. Adelaide 60, Bodrum 72: Bodrum leads by 12 points.
Good for families. Adelaide 70, Bodrum 66: Adelaide leads by 4 points.
Getting around. Adelaide 57, Bodrum 42: Adelaide leads by 15 points.
Shopping & style. Adelaide 44, Bodrum 45: Bodrum leads by 1 points.
Affordability. Adelaide 40, Bodrum 38: Adelaide leads by 2 points.
Live music & performing arts. Adelaide 63, Bodrum 32: Adelaide leads by 31 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Adelaide 42, Bodrum 52: Bodrum leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Adelaide and Bodrum.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Adelaide
56match

Wins on live music and the arts and getting around with your weighting.

Bodrum
55match

Wins on nightlife and beaches with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Adelaide in July

16 °Cdaytime high
8 °Cnight-time low
72 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
14 °Csea
10 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. Adelaide: 1991-2020 normals, Adelaide (West Terrace / ngayirdapira) (3.1 km from centre). Bodrum: 1993-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Kos Airport (42.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAdelaideBodrum
Official languageEnglishTurkish
CurrencyAustralian Dollar (AUD)Turkish Lira (TRY)
SocketsI230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+9:30, UTC+10:30 in summerUTC+3
Emergency number000112
Elevation1 m10 m
Main airportAdelaide International Airport (ADL)6 km from centre35 non-stop destinationsMilas Bodrum International Airport (BJV)32 km from centre83 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureAdelaideBodrum
City population1,387,290175,000
People per km²1,071314
Museums within 10 km134
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 months5 months

Where else could you go?

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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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.