VacationSelector

Bangkok or Bodrum?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Bangkok
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on nightlife and good for families with your weighting.

Bodrum
46
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and year-round weather with your weighting.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

BangkokBodrum
Beaches & swimming. Bodrum leads by 37 points.37
BangkokBodrum
Score4077
Swim season months125
Beaches 10 km030
Coast distance23 km0 km
Water distance23 km0 km
Places to eat. Bangkok leads by 33 points.33
BangkokBodrum
Score8350
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3,957444
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2620
Museums & heritage. Bangkok leads by 26 points.26
BangkokBodrum
Score4620
Museums within 10 km1035
Museums within 2 km of centre304
Share of museums within 2 km %2980
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Bangkok leads by 38 points.38
BangkokBodrum
Score8345
Drinking venues within 4 km3,383418
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,396334
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4180
Nightclubs within 4 km7260
Nature & day trips. Bangkok leads by 32 points.32
BangkokBodrum
Score5119
Protected land share 50 km %—5
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %8335
Park area within 2 km42 hectares3 hectares
Good for families. Bangkok leads by 35 points.35
BangkokBodrum
Score5722
Tourist attractions within 2 km3115
Park area within 2 km42 hectares3 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km41
Sights concentration. Bangkok leads by 30 points.30
BangkokBodrum
Score4818
Notable places within 2 km6211
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bangkok leads by 4 points.4
BangkokBodrum
Score9389
Price level global29.735.2
Daily budget—€100
Year-round weather. Bodrum leads by 21 points.21
BangkokBodrum
Score5677
Monthly daytime high32.4 °C to 35.8 °C13.8 °C to 31.2 °C
Monthly rainfall7 mm to 331 mm0 mm to 147 mm
Dry months35
0255075100

When should you go?

The figures behind each month. Each row is shaded against that destination's own year, so the deepest cell is its best month for that measure and the palest its weakest. Shades are not comparable between the two rows.

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Daytime high, °C
Bangkok
33
34
35
36
35
34
34
33
33
33
33
32
Bodrum
14
15
17
20
24
28
31
31
28
24
19
16
Sea temperature, °C
Bangkok
27
28
29
30
31
30
30
30
29
29
29
28
Bodrum
17
16
16
17
19
22
24
25
24
22
20
19
Rainfall, mm
Bangkok
18
22
43
92
221
187
184
227
331
276
42
7
Bodrum
140
96
71
51
25
3
0
0
12
42
103
147
Daylight, hours per day
Bangkok
11
12
12
12
13
13
13
13
12
12
12
11
Bodrum
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Bangkok
8
8
8
8
7
5
5
4
4
5
7
8
Bodrum
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bangkok: 1991-2020 normals, Bangkok (5.7 km from centre). Bodrum: 1993-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Kos Airport (42.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBangkokBodrum
IstanbulIST, SAW
9 h 30 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
1 h 10 m
€50-55
BJV · 32 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 55 m
€438-523
BKK · 26 km
3 h 50 m
€149-173
1 stop
BJV · 32 km
MoscowVKO, SVO, DME, ZIA
9 h 0 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
3 h 15 m
€244-307
1 stop
BJV · 32 km
KatowiceKTW
10 h 25 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
BJV · 32 km
ManchesterMAN
12 h 0 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
4 h 5 m
no fares
BJV · 32 km
ZurichZRH
11 h 20 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
KGS · 40 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
11 h 20 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
KGS · 40 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
11 h 35 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
3 h 30 m
€190-240
1 stop
BJV · 32 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 25 m
€409-425
DMK · 21 km
4 h 5 m
no fares
BJV · 32 km
AlmatyALA
5 h 20 m
no fares
DMK · 21 km
5 h 35 m
€321-350
1 stop
BJV · 32 km

The busiest departure cities for these two, with a place kept for each other part of the world. Busiest means arriving passengers where an official count exists, and where none does, the number of non-stop services flown: official route statistics are published by the European reporting countries and by nobody else, so a table ranked on them alone would offer a reader in New York or Tokyo ten European cities. Flying times are estimated from the distance between airports, and every row is a city flown non-stop to both. Where the typical offer connects anyway, the stops are shown. Under each figure is the airport the flight lands at and how far that is from the centre, because the nearest airport is not always the one a route is flown to. Where both columns name the same airport it is one flight, and the difference between the two is the distance printed beside it. Typical return fares for 2026-08 to 2026-10, cached market data up to 7 days old. The figure is the middle half of the offers found, so a single price means they agreed and a range means they did not; for a typical route that middle half spans about a quarter of the median, and for the least settled routes rather more than the median itself.

Before you go

MeasureBangkokBodrum
Official languageThaiTurkish
CurrencyBaht (THB)Turkish Lira (TRY)
SocketsABCF220 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+7UTC+3
Emergency numberPolice 191, ambulance 1669, fire 199112
Elevation2 m10 m
Main airportSuvarnabhumi Airport (BKK)26 km from centre142 non-stop destinationsMilas Bodrum International Airport (BJV)32 km from centre82 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year–14 days

By the numbers

MeasureBangkokBodrum
City population5,676,648175,000
People per km²3,619314
Museums within 10 km594
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre9130
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months5 months

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Sources

© OpenStreetMap contributors, data available under the Open Database Licence. Place counts include data from Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA Permissive 2.0), assembled from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and other providers. Notable-place counts from Wikidata (CC0), weighted by Wikipedia language editions. Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). 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. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0.

Scores follow rubric v2; snapshot generated 2026-08-31. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.