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Bodrum Castle and gulets in the harbour, Bodrum
BodrumBodrum Castle and gulets in the harbour
Clearwater Beach in evening light, with its hotels and pier, Clearwater
ClearwaterClearwater Beach in evening light, with its hotels and pier

Photos: Bodrum by Serhio Magpie, CC BY 4.0, cropped; Clearwater by ajay_suresh, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Bodrum or Clearwater?

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

  • nightlife
  • culture and sights
  • food and drink

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

Choose Clearwater for

  • families
  • beaches
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Clearwater’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, Clearwater 90: Clearwater leads by 10 points.
Food & drink. Bodrum 60, Clearwater 38: Bodrum leads by 22 points.
Culture & sights. Bodrum 45, Clearwater 18: Bodrum leads by 27 points.
Nightlife. Bodrum 65, Clearwater 34: Bodrum leads by 31 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bodrum 60, Clearwater 55: Bodrum leads by 5 points.
Day trips. Bodrum 72, Clearwater 58: Bodrum leads by 14 points.
Good for families. Bodrum 66, Clearwater 78: Clearwater leads by 12 points.
Getting around. Bodrum 42, Clearwater 28: Bodrum leads by 14 points.
Shopping & style. Bodrum 45, Clearwater 27: Bodrum leads by 18 points.
Affordability. Bodrum 38, Clearwater 35: Bodrum leads by 3 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bodrum 32, Clearwater 36: Clearwater leads by 4 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bodrum 52, Clearwater 40: Bodrum leads by 12 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bodrum and Clearwater.

Your match

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

Bodrum
Best match
55match

Wins on nightlife and culture and sights with your weighting.

Clearwater
45match

Wins on families and beaches 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

Clearwater in July

32 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
188 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
30 °Csea
14 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.

Clearwater 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.

Clearwater's sunshine is measured 26 km from the centre, at Tampa International Airport.

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). Clearwater: 2006-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Saint Petersburg / High Point (12.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBodrumClearwater
Official languageTurkish-
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation10 m9 m
Main airportMilas Bodrum International Airport (BJV)32 km from centre83 non-stop destinationsSt. Petersburg Clearwater International Airport (PIE)13 km from centre60 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBodrumClearwater
City population175,000117,292
People per km²3141,154
Museums within 10 km44
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months8 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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.