VacationSelector

Bodrum or Helsinki?

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 value for money and year-round weather with your weighting.

Helsinki
✓ Best match
57
match

Wins on sights concentration 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.

BodrumHelsinki
Beaches & swimming. Bodrum leads by 17 points.17
BodrumHelsinki
Score7760
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km30157
Coast distance0 km0 km
Water distance0 km0 km
Places to eat. Helsinki leads by 21 points.21
BodrumHelsinki
Score5071
Restaurants within 2 km of centre4441,005
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2038
Museums & heritage. Helsinki leads by 29 points.29
BodrumHelsinki
Score2049
Museums within 10 km557
Museums within 2 km of centre423
Share of museums within 2 km %8040
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Helsinki leads by 11 points.11
BodrumHelsinki
Score4556
Drinking venues within 4 km418807
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre334607
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8075
Nightclubs within 4 km6040
Nature & day trips. Helsinki leads by 23 points.23
BodrumHelsinki
Score1942
Protected land share 50 km %53
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %3553
Park area within 2 km3 hectares185 hectares
Good for families. Helsinki leads by 36 points.36
BodrumHelsinki
Score2258
Tourist attractions within 2 km1520
Park area within 2 km3 hectares185 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Helsinki leads by 55 points.55
BodrumHelsinki
Score1873
Notable places within 2 km11257
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bodrum leads by 33 points.33
BodrumHelsinki
Score8956
Price level global35.281.6
Daily budget€100€184
Year-round weather. Bodrum leads by 29 points.29
BodrumHelsinki
Score7748
Monthly daytime high13.8 °C to 31.2 °C-1.5 °C to 21.9 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 147 mm32 mm to 84 mm
Dry months53
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
Helsinki
-1
-1
2
8
15
19
22
21
15
9
4
1
Sea temperature, °C
Bodrum
17
16
16
17
19
22
24
25
24
22
20
19
Helsinki
2
1
1
2
6
11
16
17
14
10
7
4
Rainfall, mm
Bodrum
140
96
71
51
25
3
0
0
12
42
103
147
Helsinki
54
38
35
32
41
56
58
84
55
75
70
59
Daylight, hours per day
Bodrum
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
13
11
10
10
Helsinki
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Sunshine, hours per day
Bodrum
No sunshine record
Helsinki
1
2
5
7
9
9
9
8
5
3
1
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). Helsinki: 1991-2020 normals, Helsinki Kaisaniemi / Harju (1.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBodrumHelsinki
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 10 m
€50-55
BJV · 32 km
3 h 10 m
€206-225
HEL · 16 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 50 m
€149-173
1 stop
BJV · 32 km
2 h 50 m
€112-224
HEL · 16 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
3 h 45 m
no fares
KGS · 40 km
1 h 10 m
€62-63
HEL · 16 km
AthensATH
1 h 0 m
no fares
KGS · 40 km
3 h 35 m
no fares
HEL · 16 km
AmsterdamAMS
3 h 35 m
€229-250
1 stop
BJV · 32 km
2 h 25 m
€251-299
1 stop
HEL · 16 km
MunichMUC
2 h 45 m
€197-226
1 stop
BJV · 32 km
2 h 30 m
no fares
HEL · 16 km
CopenhagenCPH
3 h 25 m
no fares
KGS · 40 km
1 h 45 m
€111-131
HEL · 16 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
3 h 5 m
€232-285
1 stop
BJV · 32 km
2 h 30 m
€203-241
1 stop
HEL · 16 km
RovaniemiRVN
4 h 20 m
no fares
ADB · 142 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
HEL · 16 km
DohaDOH
3 h 45 m
no fares
BJV · 32 km
5 h 50 m
no fares
HEL · 16 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

MeasureBodrumHelsinki
Official languageTurkishFinnish, Swedish
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation10 m17 m
Main airportMilas Bodrum International Airport (BJV)32 km from centre82 non-stop destinationsHelsinki Vantaa Airport (HEL)16 km from centre120 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureBodrumHelsinki
City population175,000694,392
People per km²3143,239
Museums within 10 km474
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre3078
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.