VacationSelector

Barcelona or Bodrum?

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

Your match

Barcelona
✓ Best match
71
match

Wins on sights concentration and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Bodrum
46
match

Wins on value for money and beaches & swimming 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.

BarcelonaBodrum
Beaches & swimming. Bodrum leads by 12 points.12
BarcelonaBodrum
Score6577
Swim season months35
Beaches 10 km2030
Coast distance2 km0 km
Water distance2 km0 km
Places to eat. Barcelona leads by 40 points.40
BarcelonaBodrum
Score9050
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3,786444
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4120
Museums & heritage. Barcelona leads by 48 points.48
BarcelonaBodrum
Score6820
Museums within 10 km1055
Museums within 2 km of centre494
Share of museums within 2 km %4780
Unesco sites within 50 km30
Nightlife. Barcelona leads by 37 points.37
BarcelonaBodrum
Score8245
Drinking venues within 4 km2,711418
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,641334
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6180
Nightclubs within 4 km24560
Nature & day trips. Barcelona leads by 31 points.31
BarcelonaBodrum
Score5019
Protected land share 50 km %105
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5135
Park area within 2 km49 hectares3 hectares
Good for families. Barcelona leads by 43 points.43
BarcelonaBodrum
Score6522
Tourist attractions within 2 km6015
Park area within 2 km49 hectares3 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km31
Sights concentration. Barcelona leads by 55 points.55
BarcelonaBodrum
Score7318
Notable places within 2 km25811
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bodrum leads by 18 points.18
BarcelonaBodrum
Score7189
Price level global60.835.2
Daily budget€122€100
Year-round weather. Barcelona leads by 1 points.1
BarcelonaBodrum
Score7877
Monthly daytime high13.9 °C to 28.9 °C13.8 °C to 31.2 °C
Monthly rainfall27 mm to 83 mm0 mm to 147 mm
Dry months55
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
Barcelona
14
14
16
19
22
26
28
29
26
22
18
15
Bodrum
14
15
17
20
24
28
31
31
28
24
19
16
Sea temperature, °C
Barcelona
14
13
13
14
17
21
24
25
24
21
17
15
Bodrum
17
16
16
17
19
22
24
25
24
22
20
19
Rainfall, mm
Barcelona
41
32
40
47
44
27
27
51
83
82
45
36
Bodrum
140
96
71
51
25
3
0
0
12
42
103
147
Daylight, hours per day
Barcelona
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Bodrum
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Barcelona
5
5
7
8
8
9
10
9
7
6
4
4
Bodrum
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Barcelona: 1991-2020 normals, Barcelona / Aeropuerto (14.4 km from centre). Bodrum: 1993-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Kos Airport (42.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBarcelonaBodrum
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 15 m
€173-293
BCN · 13 km
1 h 10 m
€50-55
BJV · 32 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 0 m
€37-96
BCN · 13 km
3 h 50 m
€149-173
1 stop
BJV · 32 km
AnkaraESB
3 h 45 m
no fares
BCN · 13 km
1 h 20 m
€54-73
BJV · 32 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€79-101
BCN · 13 km
3 h 35 m
no fares
RHO · 91 km
AthensATH
2 h 55 m
no fares
BCN · 13 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
KGS · 40 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 30 m
€33-92
BCN · 13 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
KGS · 40 km
MadridMAD
1 h 15 m
€114-118
BCN · 13 km
3 h 45 m
no fares
ADB · 142 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 10 m
€132-158
BCN · 13 km
3 h 35 m
€229-250
1 stop
BJV · 32 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 40 m
€54-89
BCN · 13 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
KGS · 40 km
DohaDOH
6 h 25 m
€282-445
2 stops
BCN · 13 km
3 h 45 m
no fares
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

MeasureBarcelonaBodrum
Official languageSpanishTurkish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Turkish Lira (TRY)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+3
Emergency number112112
Elevation9 m10 m
Main airportJosep Tarradellas Barcelona-El Prat Airport (BCN)13 km from centre229 non-stop destinationsMilas Bodrum International Airport (BJV)32 km from centre82 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureBarcelonaBodrum
City population1,731,649175,000
People per km²17,094314
Museums within 10 km954
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30
Distinct cuisines in the centre12830
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 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). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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. 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. 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.