VacationSelector

Bodrum or Cancun?

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 sights concentration and value for money with your weighting.

Cancun
✓ Best match
50
match

Wins on nature & day trips 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.

BodrumCancun
Beaches & swimming. Cancun leads by 20 points.20
BodrumCancun
Score7797
Swim season months512
Beaches 10 km3023
Coast distance0 km3 km
Water distance0 km3 km
Places to eat. Cancun leads by 4 points.4
BodrumCancun
Score5054
Restaurants within 2 km of centre444681
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2018
Museums & heritage. Bodrum and Cancun are level on 20.
BodrumCancun
Score2020
Museums within 10 km51
Museums within 2 km of centre41
Share of museums within 2 km %80100
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Bodrum leads by 9 points.9
BodrumCancun
Score4536
Drinking venues within 4 km418270
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre334175
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8065
Nightclubs within 4 km6033
Nature & day trips. Cancun leads by 35 points.35
BodrumCancun
Score1954
Protected land share 50 km %59
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %3545
Park area within 2 km3 hectares66 hectares
Good for families. Cancun leads by 10 points.10
BodrumCancun
Score2232
Tourist attractions within 2 km152
Park area within 2 km3 hectares66 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km13
Sights concentration. Bodrum leads by 14 points.14
BodrumCancun
Score184
Notable places within 2 km115
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bodrum leads by 13 points.13
BodrumCancun
Score8976
Price level global35.254.2
Daily budget€100
Year-round weather. Cancun leads by 4 points.4
BodrumCancun
Score7781
Monthly daytime high13.8 °C to 31.2 °C26.2 °C to 30.3 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 147 mm38 mm to 224 mm
Dry months51
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
Cancun
26
27
28
29
30
30
30
30
30
29
27
27
Sea temperature, °C
Bodrum
17
16
16
17
19
22
24
25
24
22
20
19
Cancun
27
26
26
27
28
28
29
29
29
29
28
27
Rainfall, mm
Bodrum
140
96
71
51
25
3
0
0
12
42
103
147
Cancun
63
50
38
41
92
181
89
114
166
224
124
68
Daylight, hours per day
Bodrum
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
13
11
10
10
Cancun
11
11
12
13
13
13
13
13
12
12
11
11

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). Cancun: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

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Getting there

Flying fromBodrumCancun
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 10 m
€50-55
BJV · 32 km
12 h 55 m
no fares
CUN · 14 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 50 m
€149-173
1 stop
BJV · 32 km
10 h 0 m
no fares
CUN · 14 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
3 h 5 m
€232-285
1 stop
BJV · 32 km
10 h 45 m
€657-706
1 stop
CUN · 14 km
MadridMAD
3 h 45 m
no fares
ADB · 142 km
10 h 0 m
€721-977
CUN · 14 km
AmsterdamAMS
3 h 35 m
€229-250
1 stop
BJV · 32 km
10 h 25 m
no fares
CUN · 14 km
DublinDUB
4 h 25 m
no fares
BJV · 32 km
9 h 30 m
no fares
CUN · 14 km
KatowiceKTW
2 h 35 m
no fares
BJV · 32 km
11 h 35 m
no fares
CUN · 14 km
ManchesterMAN
4 h 5 m
no fares
BJV · 32 km
9 h 50 m
no fares
CUN · 14 km
ZurichZRH
2 h 55 m
no fares
KGS · 40 km
10 h 55 m
no fares
CUN · 14 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
3 h 35 m
no fares
RHO · 91 km
10 h 20 m
no fares
CUN · 14 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

MeasureBodrumCancun
Official languageTurkishSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC-5
Emergency number112911
Elevation10 m5 m
Main airportMilas Bodrum International Airport (BJV)32 km from centre82 non-stop destinationsCancún International Airport (CUN)14 km from centre136 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureBodrumCancun
City population175,000888,797
People per km²314
Museums within 10 km41
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre3031
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months12 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. Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. 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.