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Bodrum Castle and gulets in the harbour, Bodrum
BodrumBodrum Castle and gulets in the harbour
Cardiff Castle, Cardiff
CardiffCardiff Castle

Photos: Bodrum by Serhio Magpie, CC BY 4.0, cropped; Cardiff by Tevfik Teker, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

Bodrum or Cardiff?

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
  • wellness
  • food and drink

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

Choose Cardiff for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Cardiff’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, Cardiff 30: Bodrum leads by 50 points.
Food & drink. Bodrum 60, Cardiff 45: Bodrum leads by 15 points.
Culture & sights. Bodrum 45, Cardiff 58: Cardiff leads by 13 points.
Nightlife. Bodrum 65, Cardiff 50: Bodrum leads by 15 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bodrum 60, Cardiff 70: Cardiff leads by 10 points.
Day trips. Bodrum and Cardiff are level on 72.
Good for families. Bodrum 66, Cardiff 58: Bodrum leads by 8 points.
Getting around. Bodrum 42, Cardiff 66: Cardiff leads by 24 points.
Shopping & style. Bodrum 45, Cardiff 50: Cardiff leads by 5 points.
Affordability. Bodrum 38, Cardiff 46: Cardiff leads by 8 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bodrum 32, Cardiff 57: Cardiff leads by 25 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bodrum 52, Cardiff 27: Bodrum leads by 25 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bodrum and Cardiff.

Your match

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

Bodrum
Best match
55match

Wins on beaches and wellness with your weighting.

Cardiff
52match

Wins on live music and the arts and getting around 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

Cardiff in July

20 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
83 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
17 °Csea
16 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.

Cardiff 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.

Cardiff's sunshine is measured 83 km from the centre, at Lyneham.

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). Cardiff: 1991-2020 normals, Cardiff-Wales Airport (14.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBodrumCardiff
Official languageTurkishEnglish
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+3UTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112112 or 999
Elevation10 m41 m
Main airportMilas Bodrum International Airport (BJV)32 km from centre83 non-stop destinationsCardiff International Airport (CWL)15 km from centre30 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureBodrumCardiff
City population175,000383,536
People per km²3142,734
Museums within 10 km49
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 monthsNone

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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.