VacationSelector

Bodrum or Limassol?

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

Your match

Too close to call, level with your weighting

Bodrum
46
match

Wins on value for money and places to eat with your weighting.

Limassol
46
match

Wins on museums & heritage and year-round weather 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.

BodrumLimassol
Beaches & swimming. Limassol leads by 2 points.2
BodrumLimassol
Score7779
Swim season months56
Beaches 10 km3027
Coast distance0 km1 km
Water distance0 km1 km
Places to eat. Bodrum leads by 7 points.7
BodrumLimassol
Score5043
Restaurants within 2 km of centre444298
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2019
Museums & heritage. Limassol leads by 24 points.24
BodrumLimassol
Score2044
Museums within 10 km517
Museums within 2 km of centre410
Share of museums within 2 km %8059
Unesco sites within 50 km03
Nightlife. Bodrum leads by 6 points.6
BodrumLimassol
Score4539
Drinking venues within 4 km418340
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre334256
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8075
Nightclubs within 4 km6020
Nature & day trips. Limassol leads by 3 points.3
BodrumLimassol
Score1922
Protected land share 50 km %52
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %3549
Park area within 2 km3 hectares32 hectares
Good for families. Bodrum leads by 6 points.6
BodrumLimassol
Score2216
Tourist attractions within 2 km153
Park area within 2 km3 hectares32 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Bodrum leads by 4 points.4
BodrumLimassol
Score1814
Notable places within 2 km119
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bodrum leads by 19 points.19
BodrumLimassol
Score8970
Price level global35.261.4
Daily budget€100€129
Year-round weather. Limassol leads by 8 points.8
BodrumLimassol
Score7785
Monthly daytime high13.8 °C to 31.2 °C16.5 °C to 31.2 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 147 mm0 mm to 98 mm
Dry months58
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
Limassol
17
17
19
22
25
29
31
31
30
27
23
19
Sea temperature, °C
Bodrum
17
16
16
17
19
22
24
25
24
22
20
19
Limassol
18
17
17
18
20
23
26
27
26
25
22
20
Rainfall, mm
Bodrum
140
96
71
51
25
3
0
0
12
42
103
147
Limassol
81
47
29
17
10
2
1
0
5
14
42
98
Daylight, hours per day
Bodrum
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
13
11
10
10
Limassol
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Bodrum
No sunshine record
Limassol
6
6
8
9
11
12
13
12
10
9
7
6

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). Limassol: 1998-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Akrotiri (11.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBodrumLimassol
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 10 m
€50-55
BJV · 32 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
ECN · 68 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 50 m
€149-173
1 stop
BJV · 32 km
4 h 25 m
€125-167
PFO · 51 km
ManchesterMAN
4 h 5 m
no fares
BJV · 32 km
4 h 40 m
no fares
PFO · 51 km
AthensATH
1 h 0 m
no fares
KGS · 40 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
PFO · 51 km
AnkaraESB
1 h 20 m
€54-73
BJV · 32 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
ECN · 68 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
1 h 45 m
no fares
KGS · 40 km
1 h 5 m
€149-173
PFO · 51 km
ThessalonikiSKG
1 h 20 m
no fares
KGS · 40 km
1 h 55 m
€96-218
PFO · 51 km
BirminghamBHX
4 h 0 m
€250-300
1 stop
BJV · 32 km
4 h 35 m
no fares
PFO · 51 km
BristolBRS
4 h 0 m
no fares
BJV · 32 km
4 h 35 m
no fares
PFO · 51 km
AlmatyALA
5 h 35 m
€321-350
1 stop
BJV · 32 km
5 h 10 m
€377-465
2 stops
LCA · 58 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

MeasureBodrumLimassol
Official languageTurkishTurkish, Greek, Modern Greek
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzG240 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+3UTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation10 m10 m
Main airportMilas Bodrum International Airport (BJV)32 km from centre82 non-stop destinationsLarnaca International Airport (LCA)58 km from centre109 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days17 days

By the numbers

MeasureBodrumLimassol
City population175,000107,970
People per km²3142,405
Museums within 10 km42
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Distinct cuisines in the centre3028
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months6 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.