VacationSelector

Bodrum or Galway?

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 value for money and beaches & swimming with your weighting.

Galway
39
match

Wins on nature & day trips 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.

BodrumGalway
Beaches & swimming. Bodrum leads by 26 points.26
BodrumGalway
Score7751
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km3013
Coast distance0 km1 km
Water distance0 km1 km
Places to eat. Bodrum leads by 13 points.13
BodrumGalway
Score5037
Restaurants within 2 km of centre444173
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2020
Museums & heritage. Bodrum and Galway are level on 20.
BodrumGalway
Score2020
Museums within 10 km55
Museums within 2 km of centre45
Share of museums within 2 km %80100
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Bodrum leads by 19 points.19
BodrumGalway
Score4526
Drinking venues within 4 km418185
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre334153
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8083
Nightclubs within 4 km608
Nature & day trips. Galway leads by 36 points.36
BodrumGalway
Score1955
Protected land share 50 km %5
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %3585
Park area within 2 km3 hectares65 hectares
Good for families. Galway leads by 3 points.3
BodrumGalway
Score2225
Tourist attractions within 2 km155
Park area within 2 km3 hectares65 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Galway leads by 4 points.4
BodrumGalway
Score1822
Notable places within 2 km1114
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bodrum leads by 32 points.32
BodrumGalway
Score8957
Price level global35.280.2
Daily budget€100€187
Year-round weather. Bodrum leads by 23 points.23
BodrumGalway
Score7754
Monthly daytime high13.8 °C to 31.2 °C8.9 °C to 19.6 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 147 mm63 mm to 113 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
Galway
9
10
11
14
16
19
20
19
18
14
11
9
Sea temperature, °C
Bodrum
17
16
16
17
19
22
24
25
24
22
20
19
Galway
9
9
9
10
12
14
16
16
15
14
12
10
Rainfall, mm
Bodrum
140
96
71
51
25
3
0
0
12
42
103
147
Galway
100
87
76
63
63
72
76
89
77
101
104
113
Daylight, hours per day
Bodrum
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
13
11
10
10
Galway
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Bodrum
No sunshine record
Galway
2
2
4
5
6
5
4
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). Galway: 1991-2020 normals, Shannon Airport (64.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBodrumGalway
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 50 m
€149-173
1 stop
BJV · 32 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
DublinDUB
4 h 25 m
no fares
BJV · 32 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
KIR · 125 km
ManchesterMAN
4 h 5 m
no fares
BJV · 32 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
WroclawWRO
2 h 45 m
no fares
BJV · 32 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
KrakowKRK
2 h 35 m
no fares
RHO · 91 km
3 h 0 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
EdinburghEDI
4 h 20 m
no fares
BJV · 32 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
NottinghamEMA
4 h 0 m
no fares
KGS · 40 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
NOC · 73 km
BirminghamBHX
4 h 0 m
€250-300
1 stop
BJV · 32 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 50 m
no fares
KGS · 40 km
2 h 30 m
no fares
NOC · 73 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
3 h 5 m
€232-285
1 stop
BJV · 32 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
KIR · 125 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

MeasureBodrumGalway
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 m25 m
Main airportMilas Bodrum International Airport (BJV)32 km from centre82 non-stop destinationsShannon Airport (SNN)64 km from centre36 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBodrumGalway
City population175,00083,456
People per km²3141,563
Museums within 10 km44
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre3025
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.