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The Texas State Capitol under a blue sky, Austin
AustinThe Texas State Capitol under a blue sky
Bodrum Castle and gulets in the harbour, Bodrum
BodrumBodrum Castle and gulets in the harbour

Photos: Austin by LoneStarMike, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Bodrum by Serhio Magpie, CC BY 4.0, cropped.

Austin 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 Austin for

  • live music and the arts
  • food and drink

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

Choose Bodrum for

  • beaches
  • day trips
  • getting around

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. Austin 30, Bodrum 80: Bodrum leads by 50 points.
Food & drink. Austin 66, Bodrum 60: Austin leads by 6 points.
Culture & sights. Austin 40, Bodrum 45: Bodrum leads by 5 points.
Nightlife. Austin and Bodrum are level on 65.
Nature & outdoors. Austin 57, Bodrum 60: Bodrum leads by 3 points.
Day trips. Austin 58, Bodrum 72: Bodrum leads by 14 points.
Good for families. Austin 55, Bodrum 66: Bodrum leads by 11 points.
Getting around. Austin 30, Bodrum 42: Bodrum leads by 12 points.
Shopping & style. Austin and Bodrum are level on 45.
Affordability. Austin 33, Bodrum 38: Bodrum leads by 5 points.
Live music & performing arts. Austin 77, Bodrum 32: Austin leads by 45 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Austin 40, Bodrum 52: Bodrum leads by 12 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Austin and Bodrum.

Your match

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

Austin
50match

Wins on live music and the arts and food and drink with your weighting.

Bodrum
Best match
55match

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.

Austin in July

36 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
49 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
No seasea
14 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. Austin: 1991-2020 normals, Camp Mabry/Austin City Asos (3.7 km from centre). Bodrum: 1993-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Kos Airport (42.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAustinBodrum
Official language-Turkish
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Turkish Lira (TRY)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6, UTC-5 in summerUTC+3
Emergency number911112
Elevation149 m10 m
Main airportAustin Bergstrom International Airport (AUS)13 km from centre91 non-stop destinationsMilas Bodrum International Airport (BJV)32 km from centre83 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureAustinBodrum
City population961,855175,000
People per km²1,217314
Museums within 10 km214
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C-5 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). 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.