VacationSelector

Bodrum or Los Angeles?

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

Your match

Bodrum
46
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and value for money with your weighting.

Los Angeles
✓ Best match
53
match

Wins on nature & day trips and sights concentration with your weighting.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

BodrumLos Angeles
Beaches & swimming. Bodrum leads by 48 points.48
BodrumLos Angeles
Score7729
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km300
Coast distance0 km
Water distance0 km
Beaches 25 km11
Warmest sea temp20.2 °C
Scoring variantbeachScoreWideRing
Declared2026-08-25
Registerseed/editorial-overrides.json
Places to eat. Los Angeles leads by 16 points.16
BodrumLos Angeles
Score5066
Restaurants within 2 km of centre4441,337
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2022
Museums & heritage. Los Angeles leads by 29 points.29
BodrumLos Angeles
Score2049
Museums within 10 km569
Museums within 2 km of centre423
Share of museums within 2 km %8033
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Los Angeles leads by 9 points.9
BodrumLos Angeles
Score4554
Drinking venues within 4 km418660
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre334432
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8065
Nightclubs within 4 km6064
Nature & day trips. Los Angeles leads by 43 points.43
BodrumLos Angeles
Score1962
Protected land share 50 km %526
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %3580
Park area within 2 km3 hectares20 hectares
Good for families. Los Angeles leads by 11 points.11
BodrumLos Angeles
Score2233
Tourist attractions within 2 km1511
Park area within 2 km3 hectares20 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Los Angeles leads by 36 points.36
BodrumLos Angeles
Score1854
Notable places within 2 km1188
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bodrum leads by 46 points.46
BodrumLos Angeles
Score8943
Price level global35.2100
Daily budget€100
Year-round weather. Los Angeles leads by 10 points.10
BodrumLos Angeles
Score7787
Monthly daytime high13.8 °C to 31.2 °C18.6 °C to 24.7 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 147 mm0 mm to 76 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
Los Angeles
19
19
19
20
21
22
24
25
25
24
22
19
Sea temperature, °C
Bodrum
17
16
16
17
19
22
24
25
24
22
20
19
Los Angeles
15
15
15
15
17
18
20
20
20
19
17
16
Rainfall, mm
Bodrum
140
96
71
51
25
3
0
0
12
42
103
147
Los Angeles
73
76
44
16
7
2
1
0
3
13
21
57
Daylight, hours per day
Bodrum
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
13
11
10
10
Los Angeles
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
10
10

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). Los Angeles: 1991-2020 normals, Los Angeles Airport (18.5 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBodrumLos Angeles
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 10 m
€50-55
BJV · 32 km
13 h 35 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 50 m
€149-173
1 stop
BJV · 32 km
11 h 0 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
3 h 35 m
no fares
RHO · 91 km
11 h 25 m
€600-640
1 stop
LAX · 19 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
2 h 45 m
€232-282
2 stops
BJV · 32 km
12 h 0 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
ViennaVIE
2 h 25 m
no fares
KGS · 40 km
12 h 15 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
3 h 5 m
€232-285
1 stop
BJV · 32 km
11 h 40 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
AmsterdamAMS
3 h 35 m
€229-250
1 stop
BJV · 32 km
11 h 10 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
DublinDUB
4 h 25 m
no fares
BJV · 32 km
10 h 25 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
MunichMUC
2 h 45 m
€197-226
1 stop
BJV · 32 km
12 h 0 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
4 h 5 m
no fares
BJV · 32 km
16 h 25 m
€964-1015
LAX · 19 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

MeasureBodrumLos Angeles
Official languageTurkish
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation10 m106 m
Main airportMilas Bodrum International Airport (BJV)32 km from centre82 non-stop destinationsLos Angeles International Airport (LAX)19 km from centre180 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBodrumLos Angeles
City population175,0003,898,747
People per km²3142,994
Museums within 10 km438
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre3046
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 monthsNone

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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. 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.