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Bodrum Castle and gulets in the harbour, Bodrum
BodrumBodrum Castle and gulets in the harbour
San Petronio on Piazza Maggiore, Bologna
BolognaSan Petronio on Piazza Maggiore

Photos: Bodrum by Serhio Magpie, CC BY 4.0, cropped; Bologna by Vanni Lazzari, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Bodrum or Bologna?

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 Bodrum for

  • beaches
  • families
  • wellness

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

Choose Bologna for

  • getting around
  • culture and sights
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Bologna’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. Bodrum 80, Bologna 30: Bodrum leads by 50 points.
Food & drink. Bodrum 60, Bologna 82: Bologna leads by 22 points.
Culture & sights. Bodrum 45, Bologna 77: Bologna leads by 32 points.
Nightlife. Bodrum 65, Bologna 58: Bodrum leads by 7 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bodrum 60, Bologna 52: Bodrum leads by 8 points.
Day trips. Bodrum 72, Bologna 95: Bologna leads by 23 points.
Good for families. Bodrum 66, Bologna 50: Bodrum leads by 16 points.
Getting around. Bodrum 42, Bologna 76: Bologna leads by 34 points.
Shopping & style. Bodrum 45, Bologna 55: Bologna leads by 10 points.
Affordability. Bodrum 38, Bologna 48: Bologna leads by 10 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bodrum 32, Bologna 60: Bologna leads by 28 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bodrum 52, Bologna 40: Bodrum leads by 12 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bodrum and Bologna.

Your match

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

Bodrum
55match

Wins on beaches and families with your weighting.

Bologna
Best match
60match

Wins on getting around and culture and sights with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

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

Bologna in July

32 °Cdaytime high
20 °Cnight-time low
39 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
No seasea
15 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.

Bologna 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.

Bologna's sunshine is measured 82 km from the centre, at Cervia.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bodrum: 1993-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Kos Airport (42.7 km from centre). Bologna: 1991-2020 normals, Bologna / Borgo Panigale (5.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBodrumBologna
Official languageTurkishItalian
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation10 m54 m
Main airportMilas Bodrum International Airport (BJV)32 km from centre83 non-stop destinationsBologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport (BLQ)6 km from centre98 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBodrumBologna
City population175,000387,971
People per km²3142,754
Museums within 10 km468
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months-

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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). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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. 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.