VacationSelector

Bodrum or Dubrovnik?

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

Your match

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Bodrum
46
match

Wins on nightlife and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Dubrovnik
44
match

Wins on museums & heritage and sights concentration 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.

BodrumDubrovnik
Beaches & swimming. Bodrum and Dubrovnik are level on 77.
BodrumDubrovnik
Score7777
Swim season months55
Beaches 10 km3043
Coast distance0 km0 km
Water distance0 km0 km
Places to eat. Bodrum leads by 12 points.12
BodrumDubrovnik
Score5038
Restaurants within 2 km of centre444206
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2018
Museums & heritage. Dubrovnik leads by 29 points.29
BodrumDubrovnik
Score2049
Museums within 10 km518
Museums within 2 km of centre417
Share of museums within 2 km %8094
Unesco sites within 50 km03
Nightlife. Bodrum leads by 25 points.25
BodrumDubrovnik
Score4520
Drinking venues within 4 km418128
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre334110
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8086
Nightclubs within 4 km6013
Nature & day trips. Bodrum leads by 14 points.14
BodrumDubrovnik
Score195
Protected land share 50 km %54
Landscape blanket share 50 km %04
Land share of disc %3551
Park area within 2 km3 hectares6 hectares
Good for families. Bodrum leads by 1 points.1
BodrumDubrovnik
Score2221
Tourist attractions within 2 km1512
Park area within 2 km3 hectares6 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Dubrovnik leads by 26 points.26
BodrumDubrovnik
Score1844
Notable places within 2 km1148
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bodrum leads by 9 points.9
BodrumDubrovnik
Score8980
Price level global35.248.5
Daily budget€100€138
Year-round weather. Bodrum leads by 12 points.12
BodrumDubrovnik
Score7765
Monthly daytime high13.8 °C to 31.2 °C11 °C to 29.1 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 147 mm54 mm to 198 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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Daytime high, °C
Bodrum
14
15
17
20
24
28
31
31
28
24
19
16
Dubrovnik
11
12
14
18
22
26
29
29
25
21
17
13
Sea temperature, °C
Bodrum
17
16
16
17
19
22
24
25
24
22
20
19
Dubrovnik
14
14
14
15
19
23
25
26
24
21
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Bodrum
140
96
71
51
25
3
0
0
12
42
103
147
Dubrovnik
141
121
112
127
90
71
54
62
143
145
192
198
Daylight, hours per day
Bodrum
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
13
11
10
10
Dubrovnik
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Bodrum
No sunshine record
Dubrovnik
4
4
6
6
8
9
11
10
7
6
4
4

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). Dubrovnik: 1999-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Dubrovnik / Cilipi (15.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBodrumDubrovnik
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 10 m
€50-55
BJV · 32 km
1 h 40 m
€255-303
1 stop
DBV · 16 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 50 m
€149-173
1 stop
BJV · 32 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
AthensATH
1 h 0 m
no fares
KGS · 40 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
ZagrebZAG
2 h 15 m
no fares
KGS · 40 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
AnkaraESB
1 h 20 m
€54-73
BJV · 32 km
2 h 5 m
€250-283
2 stops
TGD · 99 km
ViennaVIE
2 h 25 m
no fares
KGS · 40 km
1 h 25 m
€66-134
DBV · 16 km
ManchesterMAN
4 h 5 m
no fares
BJV · 32 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
DublinDUB
4 h 25 m
no fares
BJV · 32 km
3 h 15 m
€135-178
2 stops
DBV · 16 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
1 h 45 m
no fares
KGS · 40 km
2 h 50 m
€274-389
TIV · 57 km
AlmatyALA
5 h 35 m
€321-350
1 stop
BJV · 32 km
6 h 5 m
€370-455
3 stops
TGD · 99 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

MeasureBodrumDubrovnik
Official languageTurkishCroatian
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation10 m10 m
Main airportMilas Bodrum International Airport (BJV)32 km from centre82 non-stop destinationsDubrovnik Ruđer Bošković Airport (DBV)16 km from centre74 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureBodrumDubrovnik
City population175,00041,562
People per km²314
Museums within 10 km47
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Distinct cuisines in the centre3032
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months5 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.