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Bodrum Castle and gulets in the harbour, Bodrum
BodrumBodrum Castle and gulets in the harbour
Fort San Pedro in Cebu City, Cebu
CebuFort San Pedro in Cebu City

Photos: Bodrum by Serhio Magpie, CC BY 4.0, cropped; Cebu by xiquinhosilva, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Bodrum or Cebu?

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

  • day trips
  • families
  • beaches

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

Choose Cebu for

  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Cebu’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, Cebu 60: Bodrum leads by 20 points.
Food & drink. Bodrum 60, Cebu 58: Bodrum leads by 2 points.
Culture & sights. Bodrum 45, Cebu 40: Bodrum leads by 5 points.
Nightlife. Bodrum 65, Cebu 46: Bodrum leads by 19 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bodrum and Cebu are level on 60.
Day trips. Bodrum 72, Cebu 44: Bodrum leads by 28 points.
Good for families. Bodrum 66, Cebu 45: Bodrum leads by 21 points.
Getting around. Bodrum 42, Cebu 26: Bodrum leads by 16 points.
Shopping & style. Bodrum 45, Cebu 44: Bodrum leads by 1 points.
Affordability. Bodrum 38, Cebu 80: Cebu leads by 42 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bodrum 32, Cebu 25: Bodrum leads by 7 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bodrum 52, Cebu 50: Bodrum leads by 2 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bodrum and Cebu.

Your match

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

Bodrum
Best match
55match

Wins on day trips and families with your weighting.

Cebu
48match

Wins on prices 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
24 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Cebu in July

32 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
205 mmrain in the month
29 °Csea
13 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.

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). Cebu: 1991-2020 normals, Mactan (7.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBodrumCebu
Official languageTurkishEnglish, Filipino, Taglish
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Philippine Peso (PHP)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzABC220 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC+8
Emergency number112911
Elevation10 m135 m
Main airportMilas Bodrum International Airport (BJV)32 km from centre83 non-stop destinationsMactan Cebu International Airport (CEB)9 km from centre41 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days18 days

By the numbers

MeasureBodrumCebu
City population175,000965,332
People per km²3143,065
Museums within 10 km45
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months12 months

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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.