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Wat Pho, Bangkok
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The harbour seen from above, Marmaris
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Photos: Bangkok by Lu Zhao, Pexels License; Marmaris by Mstyslav Chernov, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Bangkok 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 Bangkok for

  • culture and sights
  • food and drink
  • shopping

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

Choose Marmaris for

  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors
  • 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. Bangkok 12, Marmaris 80: Marmaris leads by 68 points.
Food & drink. Bangkok 95, Marmaris 40: Bangkok leads by 55 points.
Culture & sights. Bangkok 80, Marmaris 18: Bangkok leads by 62 points.
Nightlife. Bangkok 85, Marmaris 60: Bangkok leads by 25 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bangkok 25, Marmaris 72: Marmaris leads by 47 points.
Day trips. Bangkok 72, Marmaris 65: Bangkok leads by 7 points.
Good for families. Bangkok 50, Marmaris 62: Marmaris leads by 12 points.
Getting around. Bangkok 50, Marmaris 55: Marmaris leads by 5 points.
Shopping & style. Bangkok 80, Marmaris 38: Bangkok leads by 42 points.
Affordability. Bangkok 85, Marmaris 62: Bangkok leads by 23 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bangkok 52, Marmaris 12: Bangkok leads by 40 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bangkok 75, Marmaris 50: Bangkok leads by 25 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bangkok and Marmaris.

Your match

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

Bangkok
Best match
63match

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

Marmaris
51match

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

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

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. Bangkok: 1991-2020 normals, Bangkok (5.7 km from centre). Marmaris: 2000-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Dalaman (48.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBangkokMarmaris
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 m7 m
Main airportSuvarnabhumi Airport (BKK)26 km from centre150 non-stop destinationsDalaman International Airport (DLM)49 km from centre61 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-14 days

By the numbers

MeasureBangkokMarmaris
City population5,676,64897,818
People per km²3,619111
Museums within 10 km591
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months6 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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.