VacationSelector

Bodrum or Ghent?

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 beaches & swimming and value for money with your weighting.

Ghent
✓ Best match
50
match

Wins on museums & heritage and good for families 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.

BodrumGhent
Beaches & swimming. Bodrum leads by 51 points.51
BodrumGhent
Score7726
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km308
Coast distance0 km32 km
Water distance0 km32 km
Places to eat. Ghent leads by 20 points.20
BodrumGhent
Score5070
Restaurants within 2 km of centre444764
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2049
Museums & heritage. Ghent leads by 38 points.38
BodrumGhent
Score2058
Museums within 10 km524
Museums within 2 km of centre420
Share of museums within 2 km %8083
Unesco sites within 50 km05
Nightlife. Ghent leads by 4 points.4
BodrumGhent
Score4549
Drinking venues within 4 km418570
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre334446
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8078
Nightclubs within 4 km6026
Nature & day trips. Ghent leads by 15 points.15
BodrumGhent
Score1934
Protected land share 50 km %57
Landscape blanket share 50 km %04
Land share of disc %3587
Park area within 2 km3 hectares84 hectares
Good for families. Ghent leads by 28 points.28
BodrumGhent
Score2250
Tourist attractions within 2 km1519
Park area within 2 km3 hectares84 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Ghent leads by 28 points.28
BodrumGhent
Score1846
Notable places within 2 km1155
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bodrum leads by 29 points.29
BodrumGhent
Score8960
Price level global35.276.2
Daily budget€100€180
Year-round weather. Bodrum leads by 21 points.21
BodrumGhent
Score7756
Monthly daytime high13.8 °C to 31.2 °C6.4 °C to 22 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 147 mm35 mm to 79 mm
Dry months51
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
Ghent
6
7
10
13
17
20
22
22
19
15
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Bodrum
17
16
16
17
19
22
24
25
24
22
20
19
Ghent
6
6
6
9
12
16
18
19
18
15
11
8
Rainfall, mm
Bodrum
140
96
71
51
25
3
0
0
12
42
103
147
Ghent
59
52
44
35
51
64
74
79
72
76
78
74
Daylight, hours per day
Bodrum
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
13
11
10
10
Ghent
9
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Bodrum
No sunshine record
Ghent
3
3
5
7
8
8
8
7
6
4
3
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). Ghent: 1991-2020 normals, Vlissingen (44.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBodrumGhent
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 10 m
€50-55
BJV · 32 km
3 h 10 m
€161-193
BRU · 56 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 50 m
€149-173
1 stop
BJV · 32 km
1 h 5 m
€98-165
1 stop
BRU · 56 km
AthensATH
1 h 0 m
no fares
KGS · 40 km
3 h 10 m
€118-155
1 stop
BRU · 56 km
AnkaraESB
1 h 20 m
€54-73
BJV · 32 km
3 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 56 km
MadridMAD
3 h 45 m
no fares
ADB · 142 km
2 h 15 m
€98-170
BRU · 56 km
BarcelonaBCN
3 h 15 m
no fares
ADB · 142 km
1 h 55 m
€47-116
BRU · 56 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 50 m
no fares
KGS · 40 km
1 h 25 m
€36-101
BRU · 56 km
ViennaVIE
2 h 25 m
no fares
KGS · 40 km
1 h 45 m
€93-156
BRU · 56 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 20 m
no fares
KGS · 40 km
2 h 5 m
€87-136
1 stop
BRU · 56 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
4 h 5 m
no fares
BJV · 32 km
6 h 45 m
no fares
BRU · 56 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

MeasureBodrumGhent
Official languageTurkishFrench, German, Dutch
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation10 m12 m
Main airportMilas Bodrum International Airport (BJV)32 km from centre82 non-stop destinationsBrussels Airport (BRU)56 km from centre191 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureBodrumGhent
City population175,000272,657
People per km²3141,728
Museums within 10 km430
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km05
Distinct cuisines in the centre3083
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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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.