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Bodrum Castle and gulets in the harbour, Bodrum
BodrumBodrum Castle and gulets in the harbour
The wide beach and its hotels in morning light, Daytona Beach
Daytona BeachThe wide beach and its hotels in morning light

Photos: Bodrum by Serhio Magpie, CC BY 4.0, cropped; Daytona Beach by Han Zheng, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Bodrum or Daytona Beach?

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
  • food and drink
  • getting around

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

Choose Daytona Beach for

  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Daytona Beach’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 and Daytona Beach are level on 80.
Food & drink. Bodrum 60, Daytona Beach 36: Bodrum leads by 24 points.
Culture & sights. Bodrum 45, Daytona Beach 30: Bodrum leads by 15 points.
Nightlife. Bodrum 65, Daytona Beach 40: Bodrum leads by 25 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bodrum 60, Daytona Beach 56: Bodrum leads by 4 points.
Day trips. Bodrum 72, Daytona Beach 66: Bodrum leads by 6 points.
Good for families. Bodrum 66, Daytona Beach 60: Bodrum leads by 6 points.
Getting around. Bodrum 42, Daytona Beach 18: Bodrum leads by 24 points.
Shopping & style. Bodrum 45, Daytona Beach 27: Bodrum leads by 18 points.
Affordability. Bodrum 38, Daytona Beach 46: Daytona Beach leads by 8 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bodrum 32, Daytona Beach 30: Bodrum leads by 2 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bodrum 52, Daytona Beach 30: Bodrum leads by 22 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bodrum and Daytona Beach.

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 food and drink with your weighting.

Daytona Beach
43match

Wins on prices 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

Daytona Beach in July

33 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
153 mmrain in the month
28 °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.

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). Daytona Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Daytona Beach / Mansfield Mobile Home Park (4.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBodrumDaytona Beach
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 m4 m
Main airportMilas Bodrum International Airport (BJV)32 km from centre83 non-stop destinationsDaytona Beach International Airport (DAB)5 km from centre8 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBodrumDaytona Beach
City population175,00072,647
People per km²314440
Museums within 10 km46
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months9 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.