VacationSelector

Bodrum or Glasgow?

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 beaches & swimming and value for money with your weighting.

Glasgow
48
match

Wins on sights concentration and museums & heritage 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.

BodrumGlasgow
Beaches & swimming. Bodrum leads by 41 points.41
BodrumGlasgow
Score7736
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km303
Coast distance0 km3 km
Water distance0 km3 km
Places to eat. Glasgow leads by 13 points.13
BodrumGlasgow
Score5063
Restaurants within 2 km of centre444740
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2029
Museums & heritage. Glasgow leads by 25 points.25
BodrumGlasgow
Score2045
Museums within 10 km532
Museums within 2 km of centre413
Share of museums within 2 km %8041
Unesco sites within 50 km02
Nightlife. Glasgow leads by 18 points.18
BodrumGlasgow
Score4563
Drinking venues within 4 km4181,078
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre334654
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8061
Nightclubs within 4 km6073
Nature & day trips. Glasgow leads by 19 points.19
BodrumGlasgow
Score1938
Protected land share 50 km %516
Landscape blanket share 50 km %012
Land share of disc %3591
Park area within 2 km3 hectares56 hectares
Good for families. Glasgow leads by 19 points.19
BodrumGlasgow
Score2241
Tourist attractions within 2 km1513
Park area within 2 km3 hectares56 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Glasgow leads by 35 points.35
BodrumGlasgow
Score1853
Notable places within 2 km1180
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bodrum leads by 35 points.35
BodrumGlasgow
Score8954
Price level global35.284.9
Daily budget€100
Year-round weather. Bodrum leads by 34 points.34
BodrumGlasgow
Score7743
Monthly daytime high13.8 °C to 31.2 °C6.6 °C to 18.9 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 147 mm102 mm to 207 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
Glasgow
7
7
9
12
15
18
19
19
16
13
9
7
Sea temperature, °C
Bodrum
17
16
16
17
19
22
24
25
24
22
20
19
Glasgow
8
7
7
8
10
13
15
15
14
12
11
9
Rainfall, mm
Bodrum
140
96
71
51
25
3
0
0
12
42
103
147
Glasgow
207
170
147
102
103
111
129
145
132
185
190
205
Daylight, hours per day
Bodrum
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
13
11
10
10
Glasgow
8
10
12
14
16
18
17
15
13
11
8
7
Sunshine, hours per day
Bodrum
No sunshine record
Glasgow
1
2
3
4
5
4
4
4
3
2
2
1

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). Glasgow: 1991-2020 normals, Glasgow Airport (11.5 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBodrumGlasgow
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 10 m
€50-55
BJV · 32 km
4 h 0 m
€201-242
1 stop
EDI · 56 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 50 m
€149-173
1 stop
BJV · 32 km
1 h 20 m
€38-45
GLA · 11 km
AthensATH
1 h 0 m
no fares
KGS · 40 km
4 h 0 m
no fares
EDI · 56 km
AntalyaAYT
1 h 5 m
€75-89
ADB · 142 km
4 h 40 m
€171-239
1 stop
GLA · 11 km
BerlinBER
3 h 5 m
€182-261
1 stop
KGS · 40 km
2 h 5 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
BelfastBFS, BHD
4 h 35 m
no fares
RHO · 91 km
50 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
AmsterdamAMS
3 h 35 m
€229-250
1 stop
BJV · 32 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
DublinDUB
4 h 25 m
no fares
BJV · 32 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
PraguePRG
2 h 45 m
€166-213
1 stop
BJV · 32 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
BarcelonaBCN
3 h 15 m
no fares
ADB · 142 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
GLA · 11 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

MeasureBodrumGlasgow
Official languageTurkishEnglish
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+3UTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112112 or 999
Elevation10 m21 m
Main airportMilas Bodrum International Airport (BJV)32 km from centre82 non-stop destinationsGlasgow Airport (GLA)11 km from centre95 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureBodrumGlasgow
City population175,000626,410
People per km²314190
Museums within 10 km429
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Distinct cuisines in the centre3054
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.