VacationSelector

Bodrum or Dubai?

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

Your match

Bodrum
46
match

Wins on value for money and year-round weather with your weighting.

Dubai
✓ Best match
55
match

Wins on good for families and beaches & swimming 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.

BodrumDubai
Beaches & swimming. Dubai leads by 23 points.23
BodrumDubai
Score77100
Swim season months512
Beaches 10 km3052
Coast distance0 km0 km
Water distance0 km0 km
Places to eat. Dubai leads by 16 points.16
BodrumDubai
Score5066
Restaurants within 2 km of centre4441,086
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2026
Museums & heritage. Dubai leads by 18 points.18
BodrumDubai
Score2038
Museums within 10 km526
Museums within 2 km of centre418
Share of museums within 2 km %8069
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Dubai leads by 8 points.8
BodrumDubai
Score4553
Drinking venues within 4 km418601
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre334306
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8051
Nightclubs within 4 km6084
Nature & day trips. Bodrum leads by 1 points.1
BodrumDubai
Score1918
Protected land share 50 km %54
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %3552
Park area within 2 km3 hectares13 hectares
Good for families. Dubai leads by 27 points.27
BodrumDubai
Score2249
Tourist attractions within 2 km1537
Park area within 2 km3 hectares13 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km14
Sights concentration. Dubai leads by 19 points.19
BodrumDubai
Score1837
Notable places within 2 km1133
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bodrum leads by 20 points.20
BodrumDubai
Score8969
Price level global35.263.4
Daily budget€100
Year-round weather. Bodrum leads by 11 points.11
BodrumDubai
Score7766
Monthly daytime high13.8 °C to 31.2 °C24.5 °C to 42.1 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 147 mm0 mm to 21 mm
Dry months512
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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Daytime high, °C
Bodrum
14
15
17
20
24
28
31
31
28
24
19
16
Dubai
25
26
29
34
38
41
42
42
40
36
31
27
Sea temperature, °C
Bodrum
17
16
16
17
19
22
24
25
24
22
20
19
Dubai
23
22
23
25
29
31
33
33
33
31
28
25
Rainfall, mm
Bodrum
140
96
71
51
25
3
0
0
12
42
103
147
Dubai
21
6
11
7
0
0
0
0
0
0
9
18
Daylight, hours per day
Bodrum
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
13
11
10
10
Dubai
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11

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). Dubai: 1991-2020 normals, Dubai International Airport (3.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBodrumDubai
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 10 m
€50-55
BJV · 32 km
4 h 15 m
€175-294
DXB · 7 km
AnkaraESB
1 h 20 m
€54-73
BJV · 32 km
3 h 45 m
€273-303
1 stop
DXB · 7 km
MoscowVKO, SVO, DME, ZIA
3 h 15 m
€244-307
1 stop
BJV · 32 km
5 h 0 m
€330-383
DWC · 44 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 50 m
€149-173
1 stop
BJV · 32 km
7 h 10 m
€226-241
DXB · 7 km
AthensATH
1 h 0 m
no fares
KGS · 40 km
4 h 30 m
no fares
DXB · 7 km
RiyadhRUH
3 h 20 m
€232-255
1 stop
BJV · 32 km
1 h 40 m
€106-123
1 stop
DXB · 7 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
2 h 45 m
€232-282
2 stops
BJV · 32 km
5 h 35 m
€244-282
DXB · 7 km
ZurichZRH
2 h 55 m
no fares
KGS · 40 km
6 h 15 m
€237-344
1 stop
DXB · 7 km
PraguePRG
2 h 45 m
€166-213
1 stop
BJV · 32 km
5 h 55 m
€275-303
1 stop
DXB · 7 km
AlmatyALA
5 h 35 m
€321-350
1 stop
BJV · 32 km
4 h 0 m
no fares
DXB · 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

MeasureBodrumDubai
Official languageTurkishArabic
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)UAE Dirham (AED)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCG220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC+4
Emergency number112112
Elevation10 m0 m
Main airportMilas Bodrum International Airport (BJV)32 km from centre82 non-stop destinationsDubai International Airport (DXB)7 km from centre292 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days

By the numbers

MeasureBodrumDubai
City population175,0003,944,751
People per km²314
Museums within 10 km414
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre3052
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months12 months

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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.