VacationSelector

Bodrum or Brussels?

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

Your match

Bodrum
46
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and value for money with your weighting.

Brussels
✓ Best match
56
match

Wins on museums & heritage and sights concentration 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.

BodrumBrussels
Beaches & swimming. Bodrum leads by 77 points.77
BodrumBrussels
Score770
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km300
Coast distance0 km56 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Brussels leads by 31 points.31
BodrumBrussels
Score5081
Restaurants within 2 km of centre4441,779
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2044
Museums & heritage. Brussels leads by 60 points.60
BodrumBrussels
Score2080
Museums within 10 km5120
Museums within 2 km of centre459
Share of museums within 2 km %8049
Unesco sites within 50 km010
Nightlife. Brussels leads by 23 points.23
BodrumBrussels
Score4568
Drinking venues within 4 km4181,414
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre334862
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8061
Nightclubs within 4 km6084
Nature & day trips. Brussels leads by 12 points.12
BodrumBrussels
Score1931
Protected land share 50 km %56
Landscape blanket share 50 km %01
Land share of disc %35100
Park area within 2 km3 hectares65 hectares
Good for families. Brussels leads by 34 points.34
BodrumBrussels
Score2256
Tourist attractions within 2 km1528
Park area within 2 km3 hectares65 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Brussels leads by 55 points.55
BodrumBrussels
Score1873
Notable places within 2 km11254
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bodrum leads by 29 points.29
BodrumBrussels
Score8960
Price level global35.276.2
Daily budget€100€180
Year-round weather. Bodrum leads by 20 points.20
BodrumBrussels
Score7757
Monthly daytime high13.8 °C to 31.2 °C6.1 °C to 23.3 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 147 mm47 mm to 90 mm
Dry months50
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
Bodrum
14
15
17
20
24
28
31
31
28
24
19
16
Brussels
6
7
11
15
18
21
23
23
20
15
10
6
Sea temperature, °C
Bodrum
17
16
16
17
19
22
24
25
24
22
20
19
Brussels
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Bodrum
140
96
71
51
25
3
0
0
12
42
103
147
Brussels
77
67
59
47
61
72
80
90
67
71
75
89
Daylight, hours per day
Bodrum
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
13
11
10
10
Brussels
9
10
12
14
16
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Bodrum
No sunshine record
Brussels
2
2
4
6
6
7
7
6
5
4
2
1

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bodrum: 1993-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Kos Airport (42.7 km from centre). Brussels: 1991-2020 normals, Uccle (5.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBodrumBrussels
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 10 m
€50-55
BJV · 32 km
3 h 10 m
€161-193
BRU · 11 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 50 m
€149-173
1 stop
BJV · 32 km
1 h 5 m
€98-165
1 stop
BRU · 11 km
AthensATH
1 h 0 m
no fares
KGS · 40 km
3 h 10 m
€118-155
1 stop
BRU · 11 km
AnkaraESB
1 h 20 m
€54-73
BJV · 32 km
3 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 11 km
MadridMAD
3 h 45 m
no fares
ADB · 142 km
2 h 15 m
€98-170
BRU · 11 km
BarcelonaBCN
3 h 15 m
no fares
ADB · 142 km
1 h 55 m
€47-116
BRU · 11 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 50 m
no fares
KGS · 40 km
1 h 25 m
€36-101
BRU · 11 km
ViennaVIE
2 h 25 m
no fares
KGS · 40 km
1 h 45 m
€93-156
BRU · 11 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 20 m
no fares
KGS · 40 km
2 h 5 m
€87-136
1 stop
BRU · 11 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
4 h 5 m
no fares
BJV · 32 km
6 h 45 m
no fares
BRU · 11 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

MeasureBodrumBrussels
Official languageTurkishFrench, German, Dutch
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation10 m70 m
Main airportMilas Bodrum International Airport (BJV)32 km from centre82 non-stop destinationsBrussels Airport (BRU)11 km from centre191 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureBodrumBrussels
City population175,000195,546
People per km²3145,908
Museums within 10 km4105
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km010
Distinct cuisines in the centre30109
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 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). 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. 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.