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Bodrum Castle and gulets in the harbour, Bodrum
BodrumBodrum Castle and gulets in the harbour
The clock tower in the old town, Kotor
KotorThe clock tower in the old town

Photos: Bodrum by Serhio Magpie, CC BY 4.0, cropped; Kotor by Muhammed Fatih Beki, Pexels License.

Bodrum or Kotor?

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

  • nightlife
  • families
  • wellness

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

Choose Kotor for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • prices
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on Kotor’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, Kotor 57: Bodrum leads by 23 points.
Food & drink. Bodrum 60, Kotor 37: Bodrum leads by 23 points.
Culture & sights. Bodrum 45, Kotor 55: Kotor leads by 10 points.
Nightlife. Bodrum 65, Kotor 30: Bodrum leads by 35 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bodrum 60, Kotor 80: Kotor leads by 20 points.
Day trips. Bodrum and Kotor are level on 72.
Good for families. Bodrum 66, Kotor 36: Bodrum leads by 30 points.
Getting around. Bodrum 42, Kotor 48: Kotor leads by 6 points.
Shopping & style. Bodrum 45, Kotor 20: Bodrum leads by 25 points.
Affordability. Bodrum 38, Kotor 57: Kotor leads by 19 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bodrum 32, Kotor 20: Bodrum leads by 12 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bodrum 52, Kotor 24: Bodrum leads by 28 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bodrum and Kotor.

Your match

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

Bodrum
Best match
55match

Wins on nightlife and families with your weighting.

Kotor
45match

Wins on nature and the outdoors 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

Kotor in July

31 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
39 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
25 °Csea
15 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.

Kotor 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.

Kotor's sunshine is measured 42 km from the centre, at Podgorica-Grad.

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). Kotor: 1991-2020 normals, Tivat (4.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBodrumKotor
Official languageTurkishMontenegrin
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation10 m10 m
Main airportMilas Bodrum International Airport (BJV)32 km from centre83 non-stop destinationsTivat Airport (TIV)5 km from centre42 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days-

By the numbers

MeasureBodrumKotor
City population175,000562
People per km²314-
Museums within 10 km43
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months5 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.