VacationSelector

Belfast or Bodrum?

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

Your match

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Belfast
48
match

Wins on nature & day trips and good for families 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.

BelfastBodrum
Beaches & swimming. Bodrum leads by 29 points.29
BelfastBodrum
Score4877
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km1030
Coast distance1 km0 km
Water distance1 km0 km
Places to eat. Belfast leads by 6 points.6
BelfastBodrum
Score5650
Restaurants within 2 km of centre432444
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3120
Museums & heritage. Belfast leads by 9 points.9
BelfastBodrum
Score2920
Museums within 10 km185
Museums within 2 km of centre64
Share of museums within 2 km %3380
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Belfast leads by 3 points.3
BelfastBodrum
Score4845
Drinking venues within 4 km550418
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre348334
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6380
Nightclubs within 4 km2960
Nature & day trips. Belfast leads by 34 points.34
BelfastBodrum
Score5319
Protected land share 50 km %195
Landscape blanket share 50 km %130
Land share of disc %6535
Park area within 2 km68 hectares3 hectares
Good for families. Belfast leads by 26 points.26
BelfastBodrum
Score4822
Tourist attractions within 2 km1615
Park area within 2 km68 hectares3 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km21
Sights concentration. Belfast leads by 24 points.24
BelfastBodrum
Score4218
Notable places within 2 km4311
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bodrum leads by 35 points.35
BelfastBodrum
Score5489
Price level global84.935.2
Daily budget€100
Year-round weather. Bodrum leads by 26 points.26
BelfastBodrum
Score5177
Monthly daytime high6.9 °C to 19 °C13.8 °C to 31.2 °C
Monthly rainfall55 mm to 89 mm0 mm to 147 mm
Dry months05
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
Belfast
7
8
10
12
15
18
19
19
17
13
10
7
Bodrum
14
15
17
20
24
28
31
31
28
24
19
16
Sea temperature, °C
Belfast
9
8
8
8
9
11
12
13
14
14
12
11
Bodrum
17
16
16
17
19
22
24
25
24
22
20
19
Rainfall, mm
Belfast
74
62
60
56
55
65
74
86
67
89
87
85
Bodrum
140
96
71
51
25
3
0
0
12
42
103
147
Daylight, hours per day
Belfast
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
7
Bodrum
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Belfast
2
2
3
5
6
5
5
5
4
3
2
2
Bodrum
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Belfast: 1991-2020 normals, Belfast / Aldergrove Airport (19.4 km from centre). Bodrum: 1993-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Kos Airport (42.7 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromBelfastBodrum
IstanbulIST, SAW
4 h 5 m
€183-239
DUB · 132 km
1 h 10 m
€50-55
BJV · 32 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 15 m
€72-142
BHD · 4 km
3 h 50 m
€149-173
1 stop
BJV · 32 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 0 m
no fares
BHD · 4 km
4 h 5 m
no fares
BJV · 32 km
AthensATH
4 h 5 m
no fares
DUB · 132 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
KGS · 40 km
EdinburghEDI
55 m
no fares
BHD · 4 km
4 h 20 m
no fares
BJV · 32 km
GlasgowGLA, PIK
50 m
no fares
BHD · 4 km
4 h 30 m
no fares
RHO · 91 km
KrakowKRK
2 h 50 m
no fares
BFS · 20 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
RHO · 91 km
NottinghamEMA
1 h 5 m
no fares
BHD · 4 km
4 h 0 m
no fares
KGS · 40 km
BristolBRS
1 h 10 m
no fares
BHD · 4 km
4 h 0 m
no fares
BJV · 32 km
BirminghamBHX
1 h 5 m
no fares
BHD · 4 km
4 h 0 m
€250-300
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 2026-09 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

MeasureBelfastBodrum
Official languageEnglishTurkish
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Turkish Lira (TRY)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+3
Emergency number112 or 999112
Elevation3 m10 m
Main airportGeorge Best Belfast City Airport (BHD)4 km from centre24 non-stop destinationsMilas Bodrum International Airport (BJV)32 km from centre82 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureBelfastBodrum
City population345,006175,000
People per km²3,000314
Museums within 10 km84
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre4430
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone5 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). 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. 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. 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.