VacationSelector

Bodrum or Chicago?

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.

Chicago
✓ Best match
56
match

Wins on sights concentration and good for families 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.

BodrumChicago
Beaches & swimming. Bodrum leads by 24 points.24
BodrumChicago
Score7753
Swim season months51
Beaches 10 km3012
Coast distance0 km10,000 km
Water distance0 km1 km
Places to eat. Chicago leads by 31 points.31
BodrumChicago
Score5081
Restaurants within 2 km of centre4442,147
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2037
Museums & heritage. Chicago leads by 26 points.26
BodrumChicago
Score2046
Museums within 10 km545
Museums within 2 km of centre420
Share of museums within 2 km %8044
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Chicago leads by 17 points.17
BodrumChicago
Score4562
Drinking venues within 4 km4181,123
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre334728
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8065
Nightclubs within 4 km6051
Nature & day trips. Chicago leads by 19 points.19
BodrumChicago
Score1938
Protected land share 50 km %56
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %35100
Park area within 2 km3 hectares118 hectares
Good for families. Chicago leads by 33 points.33
BodrumChicago
Score2255
Tourist attractions within 2 km1518
Park area within 2 km3 hectares118 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Chicago leads by 52 points.52
BodrumChicago
Score1870
Notable places within 2 km11217
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bodrum leads by 46 points.46
BodrumChicago
Score8943
Price level global35.2100
Daily budget€100
Year-round weather. Bodrum leads by 20 points.20
BodrumChicago
Score7757
Monthly daytime high13.8 °C to 31.2 °C0.2 °C to 29.4 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 147 mm54 mm to 121 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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Daytime high, °C
Bodrum
14
15
17
20
24
28
31
31
28
24
19
16
Chicago
0
3
9
15
22
27
29
28
25
17
10
3
Sea temperature, °C
Bodrum
17
16
16
17
19
22
24
25
24
22
20
19
Chicago
3
2
2
4
7
14
21
23
20
15
9
6
Rainfall, mm
Bodrum
140
96
71
51
25
3
0
0
12
42
103
147
Chicago
58
54
68
105
121
115
102
104
85
98
69
59
Daylight, hours per day
Bodrum
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
13
11
10
10
Chicago
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9

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). Chicago: 1991-2020 normals, Chicago Midway Airport (14.5 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBodrumChicago
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 10 m
€50-55
BJV · 32 km
11 h 0 m
no fares
ORD · 25 km
AthensATH
1 h 0 m
no fares
KGS · 40 km
11 h 0 m
no fares
ORD · 25 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 50 m
€149-173
1 stop
BJV · 32 km
8 h 10 m
no fares
ORD · 25 km
ZurichZRH
2 h 55 m
no fares
KGS · 40 km
9 h 5 m
no fares
ORD · 25 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
3 h 35 m
no fares
RHO · 91 km
8 h 30 m
no fares
ORD · 25 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
2 h 45 m
€232-282
2 stops
BJV · 32 km
9 h 30 m
no fares
ORD · 25 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 50 m
no fares
KGS · 40 km
9 h 10 m
no fares
ORD · 25 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
3 h 30 m
€190-240
1 stop
BJV · 32 km
8 h 30 m
no fares
ORD · 25 km
ViennaVIE
2 h 25 m
no fares
KGS · 40 km
9 h 35 m
no fares
ORD · 25 km
Abu DhabiAUH
4 h 15 m
no fares
ADB · 142 km
14 h 25 m
no fares
ORD · 25 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

MeasureBodrumChicago
Official languageTurkish
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC-6, UTC-5 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation10 m179 m
Main airportMilas Bodrum International Airport (BJV)32 km from centre82 non-stop destinationsChicago O'Hare International Airport (ORD)25 km from centre272 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBodrumChicago
City population175,0002,746,388
People per km²3144,529
Museums within 10 km443
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre3087
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months1 month

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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.