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Wat Pho, Bangkok
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Bodrum Castle and gulets in the harbour, Bodrum
BodrumBodrum Castle and gulets in the harbour

Photos: Bangkok by Lu Zhao, Pexels License; Bodrum by Serhio Magpie, CC BY 4.0, cropped.

Bangkok 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 Bangkok for

  • prices
  • food and drink
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Bodrum for

  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors
  • families

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. Bangkok 12, Bodrum 80: Bodrum leads by 68 points.
Food & drink. Bangkok 95, Bodrum 60: Bangkok leads by 35 points.
Culture & sights. Bangkok 80, Bodrum 45: Bangkok leads by 35 points.
Nightlife. Bangkok 85, Bodrum 65: Bangkok leads by 20 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bangkok 25, Bodrum 60: Bodrum leads by 35 points.
Day trips. Bangkok and Bodrum are level on 72.
Good for families. Bangkok 50, Bodrum 66: Bodrum leads by 16 points.
Getting around. Bangkok 50, Bodrum 42: Bangkok leads by 8 points.
Shopping & style. Bangkok 80, Bodrum 45: Bangkok leads by 35 points.
Affordability. Bangkok 85, Bodrum 38: Bangkok leads by 47 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bangkok 52, Bodrum 32: Bangkok leads by 20 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bangkok 75, Bodrum 52: Bangkok leads by 23 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bangkok and Bodrum.

Your match

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

Bangkok
Best match
63match

Wins on prices and food and drink with your weighting.

Bodrum
55match

Wins on beaches and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Bangkok in July

34 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
184 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
30 °Csea
13 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. Bangkok: 1991-2020 normals, Bangkok (5.7 km from centre). Bodrum: 1993-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Kos Airport (42.7 km from centre).

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 centre150 non-stop destinationsMilas Bodrum International Airport (BJV)32 km from centre83 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
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 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). 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.

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.