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Bodrum Castle and gulets in the harbour, Bodrum
BodrumBodrum Castle and gulets in the harbour
Surfers Paradise from Narrowneck Beach, Gold Coast
Gold CoastSurfers Paradise from Narrowneck Beach

Photos: Bodrum by Serhio Magpie, CC BY 4.0, cropped; Gold Coast by Kgbo, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Bodrum or Gold Coast?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Bodrum for

  • culture and sights
  • day trips
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on Bodrum’s own page.

Choose Gold Coast for

  • families
  • nature and the outdoors
  • beaches

What lies behind each score is written up on Gold Coast’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Bodrum 80, Gold Coast 92: Gold Coast leads by 12 points.
Food & drink. Bodrum 60, Gold Coast 47: Bodrum leads by 13 points.
Culture & sights. Bodrum 45, Gold Coast 15: Bodrum leads by 30 points.
Nightlife. Bodrum 65, Gold Coast 55: Bodrum leads by 10 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bodrum 60, Gold Coast 82: Gold Coast leads by 22 points.
Day trips. Bodrum 72, Gold Coast 52: Bodrum leads by 20 points.
Good for families. Bodrum 66, Gold Coast 89: Gold Coast leads by 23 points.
Getting around. Bodrum 42, Gold Coast 45: Gold Coast leads by 3 points.
Shopping & style. Bodrum 45, Gold Coast 40: Bodrum leads by 5 points.
Affordability. Bodrum 38, Gold Coast 35: Bodrum leads by 3 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bodrum 32, Gold Coast 30: Bodrum leads by 2 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bodrum 52, Gold Coast 42: Bodrum leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bodrum and Gold Coast.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Bodrum
Best match
55match

Wins on culture and sights and day trips with your weighting.

Gold Coast
52match

Wins on families and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Bodrum in July

31 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
2 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
24 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Gold Coast in July

22 °Cdaytime high
12 °Cnight-time low
59 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
21 °Csea
11 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Bodrum's temperatures are measured 43 km from the centre, at Kos Airport.

Bodrum has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Gold Coast's sunshine is measured 75 km from the centre, at Brisbane Airport.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bodrum: 1993-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Kos Airport (42.7 km from centre). Gold Coast: 1991-2020 normals, Gold Coast Seaway (13 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBodrumGold Coast
Official languageTurkishEnglish
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Australian Dollar (AUD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzI230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+3UTC+10
Emergency number112000
Elevation10 m12 m
Main airportMilas Bodrum International Airport (BJV)32 km from centre83 non-stop destinationsGold Coast Airport (OOL)20 km from centre19 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBodrumGold Coast
City population175,000607,665
People per km²314433
Museums within 10 km42
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months12 months

Where else could you go?

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. 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.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.