VacationSelector

Bodrum or Cardiff?

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

Your match

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Bodrum
46
match

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

Cardiff
48
match

Wins on nature & day trips 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.

BodrumCardiff
Beaches & swimming. Bodrum leads by 31 points.31
BodrumCardiff
Score7746
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km308
Coast distance0 km2 km
Water distance0 km2 km
Places to eat. Cardiff leads by 10 points.10
BodrumCardiff
Score5060
Restaurants within 2 km of centre444541
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2032
Museums & heritage. Cardiff leads by 19 points.19
BodrumCardiff
Score2039
Museums within 10 km561
Museums within 2 km of centre46
Share of museums within 2 km %8010
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Cardiff leads by 3 points.3
BodrumCardiff
Score4548
Drinking venues within 4 km418536
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre334395
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8074
Nightclubs within 4 km6035
Nature & day trips. Cardiff leads by 31 points.31
BodrumCardiff
Score1950
Protected land share 50 km %518
Landscape blanket share 50 km %015
Land share of disc %3568
Park area within 2 km3 hectares88 hectares
Good for families. Cardiff leads by 10 points.10
BodrumCardiff
Score2232
Tourist attractions within 2 km154
Park area within 2 km3 hectares88 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Cardiff leads by 27 points.27
BodrumCardiff
Score1845
Notable places within 2 km1151
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bodrum leads by 35 points.35
BodrumCardiff
Score8954
Price level global35.284.9
Daily budget€100
Year-round weather. Bodrum leads by 23 points.23
BodrumCardiff
Score7754
Monthly daytime high13.8 °C to 31.2 °C7.7 °C to 20.2 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 147 mm49 mm to 87 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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D
Daytime high, °C
Bodrum
14
15
17
20
24
28
31
31
28
24
19
16
Cardiff
8
8
10
13
16
18
20
20
18
14
11
9
Sea temperature, °C
Bodrum
17
16
16
17
19
22
24
25
24
22
20
19
Cardiff
8
7
8
9
12
15
17
18
17
15
12
9
Rainfall, mm
Bodrum
140
96
71
51
25
3
0
0
12
42
103
147
Cardiff
77
55
49
54
56
56
61
66
54
87
83
79
Daylight, hours per day
Bodrum
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
13
11
10
10
Cardiff
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Bodrum
No sunshine record
Cardiff
2
3
4
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2

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

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Getting there

Flying fromBodrumCardiff
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 10 m
€50-55
BJV · 32 km
3 h 45 m
no fares
BHX · 146 km
AthensATH
1 h 0 m
no fares
KGS · 40 km
3 h 40 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
AntalyaAYT
1 h 5 m
€75-89
ADB · 142 km
4 h 20 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
ZurichZRH
2 h 55 m
no fares
KGS · 40 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 50 m
no fares
KGS · 40 km
1 h 55 m
€85-113
1 stop
BRS · 34 km
PaphosPFO
1 h 10 m
no fares
RHO · 91 km
4 h 40 m
no fares
CWL · 15 km
HeraklionHER
55 m
no fares
KGS · 40 km
4 h 0 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
KosKGS
45 m
no fares
RHO · 91 km
4 h 0 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
RhodesRHO
45 m
no fares
KGS · 40 km
4 h 10 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
GenevaGVA
3 h 10 m
no fares
RHO · 91 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
BRS · 34 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

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 centre82 non-stop destinationsCardiff International Airport (CWL)15 km from centre8 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
Distinct cuisines in the centre3055
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 monthsNone

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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.