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Bodrum Castle and gulets in the harbour, Bodrum
BodrumBodrum Castle and gulets in the harbour
Colourful shopfronts in the city centre, Cork
CorkColourful shopfronts in the city centre

Photos: Bodrum by Serhio Magpie, CC BY 4.0, cropped; Cork by Selim Karadayı, Pexels License.

Bodrum or Cork?

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
  • wellness
  • nightlife

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

Choose Cork for

  • getting around
  • live music and the arts
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Cork’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, Cork 25: Bodrum leads by 55 points.
Food & drink. Bodrum 60, Cork 58: Bodrum leads by 2 points.
Culture & sights. Bodrum 45, Cork 40: Bodrum leads by 5 points.
Nightlife. Bodrum 65, Cork 40: Bodrum leads by 25 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bodrum 60, Cork 62: Cork leads by 2 points.
Day trips. Bodrum 72, Cork 68: Bodrum leads by 4 points.
Good for families. Bodrum 66, Cork 50: Bodrum leads by 16 points.
Getting around. Bodrum 42, Cork 58: Cork leads by 16 points.
Shopping & style. Bodrum 45, Cork 40: Bodrum leads by 5 points.
Affordability. Bodrum 38, Cork 33: Bodrum leads by 5 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bodrum 32, Cork 45: Cork leads by 13 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bodrum 52, Cork 22: Bodrum leads by 30 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bodrum and Cork.

Your match

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

Bodrum
Best match
55match

Wins on beaches and wellness with your weighting.

Cork
45match

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
No recordsunshine a day
24 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Cork in July

19 °Cdaytime high
12 °Cnight-time low
86 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
16 °Csea
16 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.

Cork's station stands 153 m above the city centre, so the centre is likely a little warmer than the figures say.

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

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 centre83 non-stop destinationsCork International Airport (ORK)7 km from centre47 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
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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.