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Bodrum Castle and gulets in the harbour, Bodrum
BodrumBodrum Castle and gulets in the harbour
Nyhavn, Copenhagen
CopenhagenNyhavn

Photos: Bodrum by Serhio Magpie, CC BY 4.0, cropped; Copenhagen by Jakub Hałun, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Bodrum or Copenhagen?

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
  • prices
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Copenhagen for

  • getting around
  • live music and the arts
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on Copenhagen’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, Copenhagen 40: Bodrum leads by 40 points.
Food & drink. Bodrum 60, Copenhagen 76: Copenhagen leads by 16 points.
Culture & sights. Bodrum 45, Copenhagen 72: Copenhagen leads by 27 points.
Nightlife. Bodrum 65, Copenhagen 60: Bodrum leads by 5 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bodrum 60, Copenhagen 45: Bodrum leads by 15 points.
Day trips. Bodrum and Copenhagen are level on 72.
Good for families. Bodrum 66, Copenhagen 85: Copenhagen leads by 19 points.
Getting around. Bodrum 42, Copenhagen 85: Copenhagen leads by 43 points.
Shopping & style. Bodrum 45, Copenhagen 70: Copenhagen leads by 25 points.
Affordability. Bodrum 38, Copenhagen 18: Bodrum leads by 20 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bodrum 32, Copenhagen 68: Copenhagen leads by 36 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bodrum 52, Copenhagen 55: Copenhagen leads by 3 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bodrum and Copenhagen.

Your match

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

Bodrum
55match

Wins on beaches and prices with your weighting.

Copenhagen
Best match
62match

Wins on getting around and live music and the arts 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

Copenhagen in July

23 °Cdaytime high
15 °Cnight-time low
59 mmrain in the month
17 °Csea
17 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). Copenhagen: 1991-2020 normals, Koebenhavn / Landbohoejskolen (2.4 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBodrumCopenhagen
Official languageTurkishDanish
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Danish Krone (DKK)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCEFK230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation10 m14 m
Main airportMilas Bodrum International Airport (BJV)32 km from centre83 non-stop destinationsCopenhagen Kastrup Airport (CPH)8 km from centre196 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureBodrumCopenhagen
City population175,000667,099
People per km²3147,339
Museums within 10 km472
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km05
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 monthsNone

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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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.