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Bodrum or Cairo?

Two destinations compared in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Bodrum Castle and gulets in the harbour, Bodrum
Bodrum

Photo: Serhio Magpie, CC BY 4.0, cropped

The pyramids of Giza, Cairo
Cairo

Photo: Ricardo Liberato, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped

Your match

Bodrum
✓ Best match
55
match

Wins on beaches and wellness with your weighting.

Cairo
50
match

Wins on prices and culture and sights with your weighting.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

Scoreboard

Our verdict on each category, scored 0 to 100 against fixed benchmark cities.

BodrumCairo
Beaches & swimming. Bodrum leads by 70 points.70
Food & drink. Bodrum and Cairo are level on 60.
Culture & sights. Cairo leads by 51 points.51
Nightlife. Bodrum leads by 17 points.17
Nature & outdoors. Bodrum leads by 30 points.30
Day trips. Bodrum leads by 6 points.6
Good for families. Bodrum leads by 34 points.34
Getting around. Bodrum leads by 7 points.7
Shopping & style. Cairo leads by 13 points.13
Affordability. Cairo leads by 57 points.57
Live music & performing arts. Cairo leads by 18 points.18
Wellness & relaxation. Bodrum leads by 37 points.37
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bodrum and Cairo.

When should you go?

Pick the month you can travel and see both cities side by side. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Climate figures for July
JulyBodrumCairo
Daytime high31 °C36 °C
Night-time low23 °C23 °C
Rainfall in the month0 mm0 mm
SunshineNo figure12 hours a day
Sea temperature24 °CNo sea
Daylight14 hours a day14 hours a day

The whole year

Each row is shaded against that destination’s own year, so the deepest cell is its best month for that figure 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
Cairo
19
21
24
29
33
35
36
36
34
30
26
21
Sea temperature, °C
Bodrum
17
16
16
17
19
22
24
25
24
22
20
19
Cairo
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Bodrum
140
96
71
51
25
3
0
0
12
42
103
147
Cairo
6
5
10
1
1
0
0
0
0
1
1
7
Daylight, hours per day
Bodrum
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
13
11
10
10
Cairo
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
12
11
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Bodrum
No sunshine record
Cairo
7
7
9
9
11
11
12
11
10
10
9
7

Where the figures come from

Bodrum's temperatures are measured 43 km from the centre, at Kos Airport.

Bodrum's rainfall is measured 87 km from the centre, at Samos Airport.

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). Cairo: 1991-2020 normals, Helwan (21.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBodrumCairo
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 10 m
€50-55
BJV · 32 km
2 h 10 m
€154-167
CAI · 17 km
AthensATH
1 h 0 m
no fares
KGS · 40 km
2 h 0 m
€192-237
CAI · 17 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 50 m
€149-173
1 stop
BJV · 32 km
4 h 50 m
€240-288
CAI · 17 km
AnkaraESB
1 h 20 m
€54-73
BJV · 32 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
CAI · 17 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 50 m
no fares
KGS · 40 km
3 h 45 m
€147-173
CAI · 17 km
JeddahJED
3 h 5 m
no fares
BJV · 32 km
2 h 5 m
€158-202
CAI · 17 km
Kuwait CityKWI
3 h 5 m
no fares
BJV · 32 km
2 h 35 m
€137-145
CAI · 17 km
RiyadhRUH
3 h 20 m
€232-255
1 stop
BJV · 32 km
2 h 35 m
€154-163
CAI · 17 km
MoscowVKO, SVO, DME, ZIA
3 h 15 m
€244-307
1 stop
BJV · 32 km
4 h 5 m
no fares
CAI · 17 km
ZurichZRH
2 h 55 m
no fares
KGS · 40 km
3 h 55 m
€267-300
1 stop
CAI · 17 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

MeasureBodrumCairo
Official languageTurkishArabic
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Egyptian Pound (EGP)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112Police 122, ambulance 123, fire 180
Elevation10 m23 m
Main airportMilas Bodrum International Airport (BJV)32 km from centre83 non-stop destinationsCairo International Airport (CAI)17 km from centre127 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureBodrumCairo
City population175,0009,801,536
People per km²31418,564
Museums within 10 km448
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
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. 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.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate and flight figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-10-27. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.