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The Umayyad Palace on the Amman Citadel, Amman
AmmanThe Umayyad Palace on the Amman Citadel
The harbour seen from above, Marmaris
MarmarisThe harbour seen from above

Photos: Amman by AXP Photography, Pexels License; Marmaris by Mstyslav Chernov, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Amman or Marmaris?

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 Amman for

  • culture and sights
  • food and drink
  • day trips

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

Choose Marmaris for

  • beaches
  • nightlife
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Marmaris’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. Amman 22, Marmaris 80: Marmaris leads by 58 points.
Food & drink. Amman 62, Marmaris 40: Amman leads by 22 points.
Culture & sights. Amman 54, Marmaris 18: Amman leads by 36 points.
Nightlife. Amman 32, Marmaris 60: Marmaris leads by 28 points.
Nature & outdoors. Amman 45, Marmaris 72: Marmaris leads by 27 points.
Day trips. Amman 80, Marmaris 65: Amman leads by 15 points.
Good for families. Amman 38, Marmaris 62: Marmaris leads by 24 points.
Getting around. Amman 30, Marmaris 55: Marmaris leads by 25 points.
Shopping & style. Amman 42, Marmaris 38: Amman leads by 4 points.
Affordability. Amman 58, Marmaris 62: Marmaris leads by 4 points.
Live music & performing arts. Amman 27, Marmaris 12: Amman leads by 15 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Amman 55, Marmaris 50: Amman leads by 5 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Amman and Marmaris.

Your match

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

Amman
45match

Wins on culture and sights and food and drink with your weighting.

Marmaris
Best match
51match

Wins on beaches and nightlife with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Amman in July

33 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
No seasea
14 hdaylight a day

Marmaris in July

32 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
8 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
25 °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

Amman 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.

Amman's sunshine is measured 55 km from the centre, at Mafraq.

Marmaris's temperatures are measured 49 km from the centre, at Dalaman.

Marmaris 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. Amman: 1994-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Amman Airport (6 km from centre). Marmaris: 2000-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Dalaman (48.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAmmanMarmaris
Official languageArabicTurkish
CurrencyJordanian Dinar (JOD)Turkish Lira (TRY)
SocketsBCFGJ230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC+3
Emergency number911112
Elevation776 m7 m
Main airportQueen Alia International Airport (AMM)26 km from centre98 non-stop destinationsDalaman International Airport (DLM)49 km from centre61 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-14 days

By the numbers

MeasureAmmanMarmaris
City population4,007,52697,818
People per km²2,385111
Museums within 10 km81
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km31
Swim season, months above 21 °C-6 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. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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. 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.