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The church of La Compania under a blue sky, Arequipa
ArequipaThe church of La Compania under a blue sky
The harbour seen from above, Marmaris
MarmarisThe harbour seen from above

Photos: Arequipa by DocSlyper, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Marmaris by Mstyslav Chernov, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Arequipa 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 Arequipa for

  • culture and sights
  • food and drink
  • prices

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

Choose Marmaris for

  • beaches
  • day trips
  • families

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. Arequipa 8, Marmaris 80: Marmaris leads by 72 points.
Food & drink. Arequipa 66, Marmaris 40: Arequipa leads by 26 points.
Culture & sights. Arequipa 64, Marmaris 18: Arequipa leads by 46 points.
Nightlife. Arequipa 36, Marmaris 60: Marmaris leads by 24 points.
Nature & outdoors. Arequipa 74, Marmaris 72: Arequipa leads by 2 points.
Day trips. Arequipa 30, Marmaris 65: Marmaris leads by 35 points.
Good for families. Arequipa 35, Marmaris 62: Marmaris leads by 27 points.
Getting around. Arequipa 54, Marmaris 55: Marmaris leads by 1 points.
Shopping & style. Arequipa 44, Marmaris 38: Arequipa leads by 6 points.
Affordability. Arequipa 82, Marmaris 62: Arequipa leads by 20 points.
Live music & performing arts. Arequipa 27, Marmaris 12: Arequipa leads by 15 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Arequipa 34, Marmaris 50: Marmaris leads by 16 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Arequipa and Marmaris.

Your match

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

Arequipa
46match

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

Marmaris
Best match
51match

Wins on beaches and day trips with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Arequipa in July

21 °Cdaytime high
7 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
No seasea
11 hdaylight a day

Marmaris in July

32 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
8 mmrain in the month
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

Arequipa's station stands 203 m above the city centre, so the centre is likely a little warmer than the figures say.

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. Arequipa: 1991-2020 normals, Arequipa (9.2 km from centre). Marmaris: 2000-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Dalaman (48.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureArequipaMarmaris
Official languageSpanish, Aymara, QuechuaTurkish
CurrencySol (PEN)Turkish Lira (TRY)
SocketsABC220 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5UTC+3
Emergency number111 or 911112
Elevation2,335 m7 m
Main airportRodríguez Ballón International Airport (AQP)7 km from centre2 non-stop destinationsDalaman International Airport (DLM)49 km from centre61 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureArequipaMarmaris
City population1,008,29097,818
People per km²1,551111
Museums within 10 km31
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
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). Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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. 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.