VacationSelector

Bodrum or Kotor?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Bodrum
✓ Best match
46
match

Wins on nightlife and places to eat with your weighting.

Kotor
36
match

Wins on museums & heritage and sights concentration 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.

BodrumKotor
Beaches & swimming. Bodrum and Kotor are level on 77.
BodrumKotor
Score7777
Swim season months55
Beaches 10 km3050
Coast distance0 km0 km
Water distance0 km0 km
Places to eat. Bodrum leads by 24 points.24
BodrumKotor
Score5026
Restaurants within 2 km of centre44471
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2019
Museums & heritage. Kotor leads by 8 points.8
BodrumKotor
Score2028
Museums within 10 km57
Museums within 2 km of centre43
Share of museums within 2 km %8043
Unesco sites within 50 km03
Nightlife. Bodrum leads by 41 points.41
BodrumKotor
Score454
Drinking venues within 4 km41846
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre33438
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8083
Nightclubs within 4 km603
Nature & day trips. Bodrum leads by 4 points.4
BodrumKotor
Score1915
Protected land share 50 km %510
Landscape blanket share 50 km %05
Land share of disc %3566
Park area within 2 km3 hectares2 hectares
Good for families. Bodrum leads by 13 points.13
BodrumKotor
Score229
Tourist attractions within 2 km158
Park area within 2 km3 hectares2 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Kotor leads by 3 points.3
BodrumKotor
Score1821
Notable places within 2 km1113
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bodrum leads by 2 points.2
BodrumKotor
Score8987
Price level global35.238.9
Daily budget€100€95
Year-round weather. Bodrum leads by 16 points.16
BodrumKotor
Score7761
Monthly daytime high13.8 °C to 31.2 °C10.5 °C to 33.2 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 147 mm38 mm to 256 mm
Dry months51
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
Kotor
11
12
15
19
24
30
33
33
27
22
16
11
Sea temperature, °C
Bodrum
17
16
16
17
19
22
24
25
24
22
20
19
Kotor
14
14
14
15
19
23
25
26
24
21
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Bodrum
140
96
71
51
25
3
0
0
12
42
103
147
Kotor
162
148
151
140
88
56
38
54
173
169
256
229
Daylight, hours per day
Bodrum
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
13
11
10
10
Kotor
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Bodrum
No sunshine record
Kotor
4
4
6
6
8
10
11
11
7
6
3
3

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). Kotor: 1991-2020 normals, Podgorica / Golubovci (39.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBodrumKotor
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 10 m
€50-55
BJV · 32 km
1 h 35 m
€160-280
TGD · 40 km
BelgradeBEG
1 h 55 m
€275-319
2 stops
BJV · 32 km
1 h 0 m
€108-150
TIV · 5 km
AthensATH
1 h 0 m
no fares
KGS · 40 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
DBV · 44 km
AnkaraESB
1 h 20 m
€54-73
BJV · 32 km
2 h 5 m
€250-283
2 stops
TGD · 40 km
ViennaVIE
2 h 25 m
no fares
KGS · 40 km
1 h 30 m
€179-223
TGD · 40 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 50 m
€149-173
1 stop
BJV · 32 km
2 h 45 m
€246-282
1 stop
TIV · 5 km
DublinDUB
4 h 25 m
no fares
BJV · 32 km
3 h 15 m
€135-178
2 stops
DBV · 44 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
2 h 45 m
€232-282
2 stops
BJV · 32 km
2 h 0 m
€94-124
1 stop
TGD · 40 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
1 h 45 m
no fares
KGS · 40 km
2 h 50 m
€274-389
TIV · 5 km
AlmatyALA
5 h 35 m
€321-350
1 stop
BJV · 32 km
6 h 5 m
€370-455
3 stops
TGD · 40 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

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 centre82 non-stop destinationsTivat Airport (TIV)5 km from centre41 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
Distinct cuisines in the centre3027
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months5 months

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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.