VacationSelector

Bodrum or Catania?

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 value for money and beaches & swimming with your weighting.

Catania
✓ Best match
52
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.

BodrumCatania
Beaches & swimming. Bodrum leads by 19 points.19
BodrumCatania
Score7758
Swim season months55
Beaches 10 km305
Coast distance0 km1 km
Water distance0 km1 km
Places to eat. Bodrum leads by 1 points.1
BodrumCatania
Score5049
Restaurants within 2 km of centre444637
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2014
Museums & heritage. Catania leads by 39 points.39
BodrumCatania
Score2059
Museums within 10 km534
Museums within 2 km of centre427
Share of museums within 2 km %8079
Unesco sites within 50 km03
Nightlife. Catania leads by 2 points.2
BodrumCatania
Score4547
Drinking venues within 4 km418537
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre334403
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8075
Nightclubs within 4 km6018
Nature & day trips. Catania leads by 12 points.12
BodrumCatania
Score1931
Protected land share 50 km %510
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %3561
Park area within 2 km3 hectares11 hectares
Good for families. Catania leads by 14 points.14
BodrumCatania
Score2236
Tourist attractions within 2 km1525
Park area within 2 km3 hectares11 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Catania leads by 21 points.21
BodrumCatania
Score1839
Notable places within 2 km1137
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bodrum leads by 21 points.21
BodrumCatania
Score8968
Price level global35.264.9
Daily budget€100€155
Year-round weather. Bodrum and Catania are level on 77.
BodrumCatania
Score7777
Monthly daytime high13.8 °C to 31.2 °C15.8 °C to 34.5 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 147 mm9 mm to 83 mm
Dry months55
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
Catania
16
16
19
21
26
31
34
35
30
26
21
17
Sea temperature, °C
Bodrum
17
16
16
17
19
22
24
25
24
22
20
19
Catania
15
15
15
16
18
22
25
26
25
23
20
17
Rainfall, mm
Bodrum
140
96
71
51
25
3
0
0
12
42
103
147
Catania
65
45
42
32
18
11
9
9
49
51
71
83
Daylight, hours per day
Bodrum
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
13
11
10
10
Catania
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Bodrum
No sunshine record
Catania
4
5
6
7
9
10
11
10
7
6
5
4

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). Catania: 1991-2020 normals, Catania / Sigonella (18.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBodrumCatania
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 10 m
€50-55
BJV · 32 km
2 h 10 m
€166-455
CTA · 4 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 50 m
no fares
KGS · 40 km
1 h 55 m
€45-94
CTA · 4 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 20 m
no fares
KGS · 40 km
1 h 20 m
€38-50
CTA · 4 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 50 m
€149-173
1 stop
BJV · 32 km
3 h 0 m
€106-144
1 stop
CTA · 4 km
AthensATH
1 h 0 m
no fares
KGS · 40 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
CTA · 4 km
BolognaBLQ
2 h 30 m
no fares
KGS · 40 km
1 h 40 m
€38-100
CTA · 4 km
VeniceVCE, TSF
2 h 30 m
no fares
KGS · 40 km
1 h 45 m
€49-57
CTA · 4 km
NaplesNAP
2 h 5 m
no fares
KGS · 40 km
1 h 5 m
€44-56
CTA · 4 km
VeronaVRN, VBS
2 h 35 m
no fares
KGS · 40 km
1 h 45 m
€72-129
CTA · 4 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
1 h 45 m
no fares
KGS · 40 km
2 h 55 m
€157-299
CTA · 4 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

MeasureBodrumCatania
Official languageTurkishItalian
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation10 m7 m
Main airportMilas Bodrum International Airport (BJV)32 km from centre82 non-stop destinationsCatania-Fontanarossa Airport (CTA)4 km from centre95 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBodrumCatania
City population175,000311,584
People per km²3141,704
Museums within 10 km425
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Distinct cuisines in the centre3030
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months5 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.