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Bodrum Castle and gulets in the harbour, Bodrum
BodrumBodrum Castle and gulets in the harbour
Wat Chiang Man in the old city, Chiang Mai
Chiang MaiWat Chiang Man in the old city

Photos: Bodrum by Serhio Magpie, CC BY 4.0, cropped; Chiang Mai by Gije Cho, Pexels License.

Bodrum or Chiang Mai?

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
  • day trips
  • nightlife

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

Choose Chiang Mai for

  • prices
  • wellness
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on Chiang Mai’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, Chiang Mai 6: Bodrum leads by 74 points.
Food & drink. Bodrum 60, Chiang Mai 78: Chiang Mai leads by 18 points.
Culture & sights. Bodrum 45, Chiang Mai 65: Chiang Mai leads by 20 points.
Nightlife. Bodrum 65, Chiang Mai 45: Bodrum leads by 20 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bodrum 60, Chiang Mai 73: Chiang Mai leads by 13 points.
Day trips. Bodrum 72, Chiang Mai 48: Bodrum leads by 24 points.
Good for families. Bodrum 66, Chiang Mai 55: Bodrum leads by 11 points.
Getting around. Bodrum 42, Chiang Mai 38: Bodrum leads by 4 points.
Shopping & style. Bodrum 45, Chiang Mai 62: Chiang Mai leads by 17 points.
Affordability. Bodrum 38, Chiang Mai 90: Chiang Mai leads by 52 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bodrum 32, Chiang Mai 30: Bodrum leads by 2 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bodrum 52, Chiang Mai 82: Chiang Mai leads by 30 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bodrum and Chiang Mai.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Bodrum
55match

Wins on beaches and day trips with your weighting.

Chiang Mai
56match

Wins on prices and wellness 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

Chiang Mai in July

32 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
153 mmrain in the month
4 hsunshine a day
No seasea
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). Chiang Mai: 1991-2020 normals, Chiang Mai (0.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBodrumChiang Mai
Official languageTurkishThai
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Baht (THB)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzABCF220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+3UTC+7
Emergency number112Police 191, ambulance 1669, fire 199
Elevation10 m310 m
Main airportMilas Bodrum International Airport (BJV)32 km from centre83 non-stop destinationsChiang Mai International Airport (CNX)3 km from centre28 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days-

By the numbers

MeasureBodrumChiang Mai
City population175,0001,198,000
People per km²3142,958
Museums within 10 km46
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 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.