VacationSelector

Bodrum or Cork?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Bodrum
✓ Best match
46
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and value for money with your weighting.

Cork
38
match

Wins on nature & day trips 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.

BodrumCork
Beaches & swimming. Bodrum leads by 49 points.49
BodrumCork
Score7728
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km301
Coast distance0 km3 km
Water distance0 km3 km
Places to eat. Bodrum and Cork are level on 50.
BodrumCork
Score5050
Restaurants within 2 km of centre444224
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2035
Museums & heritage. Cork leads by 3 points.3
BodrumCork
Score2023
Museums within 10 km510
Museums within 2 km of centre48
Share of museums within 2 km %8080
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Bodrum leads by 7 points.7
BodrumCork
Score4538
Drinking venues within 4 km418361
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre334292
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8081
Nightclubs within 4 km609
Nature & day trips. Cork leads by 33 points.33
BodrumCork
Score1952
Protected land share 50 km %5—
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %3574
Park area within 2 km3 hectares48 hectares
Good for families. Cork leads by 5 points.5
BodrumCork
Score2227
Tourist attractions within 2 km157
Park area within 2 km3 hectares48 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Cork leads by 4 points.4
BodrumCork
Score1822
Notable places within 2 km1114
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bodrum leads by 32 points.32
BodrumCork
Score8957
Price level global35.280.2
Daily budget€100€187
Year-round weather. Bodrum leads by 28 points.28
BodrumCork
Score7749
Monthly daytime high13.8 °C to 31.2 °C8.3 °C to 18.6 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 147 mm78 mm to 140 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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F
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A
M
J
J
A
S
O
N
D
Daytime high, °C
Bodrum
14
15
17
20
24
28
31
31
28
24
19
16
Cork
8
9
10
12
15
17
19
19
17
13
10
9
Sea temperature, °C
Bodrum
17
16
16
17
19
22
24
25
24
22
20
19
Cork
10
9
9
10
12
14
16
16
16
14
12
11
Rainfall, mm
Bodrum
140
96
71
51
25
3
0
0
12
42
103
147
Cork
132
100
92
85
78
88
86
98
91
140
125
134
Daylight, hours per day
Bodrum
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
13
11
10
10
Cork
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Bodrum
No sunshine record
Cork
2
2
4
5
6
6
5
5
4
3
2
2

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). Cork: 1991-2020 normals, Cork Airport (5.6 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromBodrumCork
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 50 m
€149-173
1 stop
BJV · 32 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
AmsterdamAMS
3 h 35 m
€229-250
1 stop
BJV · 32 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
ManchesterMAN
4 h 5 m
no fares
BJV · 32 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
EdinburghEDI
4 h 20 m
no fares
BJV · 32 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
DublinDUB
4 h 25 m
no fares
BJV · 32 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
KIR · 78 km
WroclawWRO
2 h 45 m
no fares
BJV · 32 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
SNN · 94 km
BirminghamBHX
4 h 0 m
€250-300
1 stop
BJV · 32 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
3 h 35 m
no fares
RHO · 91 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
PoznanPOZ
2 h 55 m
no fares
BJV · 32 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 50 m
no fares
KGS · 40 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
ORK · 7 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

MeasureBodrumCork
Official languageTurkishEnglish, Irish
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+3UTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation10 m0 m
Main airportMilas Bodrum International Airport (BJV)32 km from centre82 non-stop destinationsCork International Airport (ORK)7 km from centre46 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBodrumCork
City population175,000222,333
People per km²3145,961
Museums within 10 km45
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre3049
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 monthsNone

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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.