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Bodrum Castle and gulets in the harbour, Bodrum
BodrumBodrum Castle and gulets in the harbour
The fountain on Plaza Mayor, Lima
LimaThe fountain on Plaza Mayor

Photos: Bodrum by Serhio Magpie, CC BY 4.0, cropped; Lima by James C., CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Bodrum or Lima?

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
  • day trips
  • wellness

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

Choose Lima for

  • prices
  • food and drink
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on Lima’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, Lima 42: Bodrum leads by 38 points.
Food & drink. Bodrum 60, Lima 88: Lima leads by 28 points.
Culture & sights. Bodrum 45, Lima 66: Lima leads by 21 points.
Nightlife. Bodrum 65, Lima 62: Bodrum leads by 3 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bodrum 60, Lima 45: Bodrum leads by 15 points.
Day trips. Bodrum 72, Lima 34: Bodrum leads by 38 points.
Good for families. Bodrum 66, Lima 42: Bodrum leads by 24 points.
Getting around. Bodrum 42, Lima 35: Bodrum leads by 7 points.
Shopping & style. Bodrum 45, Lima 52: Lima leads by 7 points.
Affordability. Bodrum 38, Lima 70: Lima leads by 32 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bodrum 32, Lima 53: Lima leads by 21 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bodrum 52, Lima 25: Bodrum leads by 27 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bodrum and Lima.

Your match

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

Bodrum
Best match
55match

Wins on beaches and day trips with your weighting.

Lima
51match

Wins on prices and food and drink 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

Lima in July

19 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
1 hsunshine a day
18 °Csea
12 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). Lima: 1991-2020 normals, Lima-Callao / Aerop. Internacional Jorgechavez (10.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBodrumLima
Official languageTurkishSpanish, Aymara, Quechua
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Sol (PEN)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzABC220 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC-5
Emergency number112111 or 911
Elevation10 m154 m
Main airportMilas Bodrum International Airport (BJV)32 km from centre83 non-stop destinationsJorge Chávez International Airport (LIM)9 km from centre61 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureBodrumLima
City population175,0009,943,800
People per km²3143,721
Museums within 10 km447
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months2 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. 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.