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Bodrum Castle and gulets in the harbour, Bodrum
BodrumBodrum Castle and gulets in the harbour
The floating torii of Itsukushima at Miyajima, Hiroshima
HiroshimaThe floating torii of Itsukushima at Miyajima

Photos: Bodrum by Serhio Magpie, CC BY 4.0, cropped; Hiroshima by Guohua Song, Pexels License.

Bodrum or Hiroshima?

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

  • beaches
  • nightlife
  • families

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

Choose Hiroshima for

  • getting around
  • prices
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on Hiroshima’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, Hiroshima 30: Bodrum leads by 50 points.
Food & drink. Bodrum 60, Hiroshima 66: Hiroshima leads by 6 points.
Culture & sights. Bodrum 45, Hiroshima 60: Hiroshima leads by 15 points.
Nightlife. Bodrum 65, Hiroshima 45: Bodrum leads by 20 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bodrum 60, Hiroshima 62: Hiroshima leads by 2 points.
Day trips. Bodrum 72, Hiroshima 80: Hiroshima leads by 8 points.
Good for families. Bodrum 66, Hiroshima 60: Bodrum leads by 6 points.
Getting around. Bodrum 42, Hiroshima 74: Hiroshima leads by 32 points.
Shopping & style. Bodrum 45, Hiroshima 52: Hiroshima leads by 7 points.
Affordability. Bodrum 38, Hiroshima 58: Hiroshima leads by 20 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bodrum 32, Hiroshima 38: Hiroshima leads by 6 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bodrum 52, Hiroshima 50: Bodrum leads by 2 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bodrum and Hiroshima.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Bodrum
55match

Wins on beaches and nightlife with your weighting.

Hiroshima
56match

Wins on getting around and prices 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

Hiroshima in July

31 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
299 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
24 °Csea
14 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.

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). Hiroshima: 1991-2020 normals, Hiroshima (1.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBodrumHiroshima
Official languageTurkishJapanese
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Yen (JPY)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+3UTC+9
Emergency number112Police 110, fire 119
Elevation10 m3 m
Main airportMilas Bodrum International Airport (BJV)32 km from centre83 non-stop destinationsHiroshima Airport (HIJ)43 km from centre10 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureBodrumHiroshima
City population175,0001,198,021
People per km²3141,324
Museums within 10 km418
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months4 months

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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. 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.

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.