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Bodrum Castle and gulets in the harbour, Bodrum
BodrumBodrum Castle and gulets in the harbour
Wat Xieng Thong temple, Luang Prabang
Luang PrabangWat Xieng Thong temple

Photos: Bodrum by Serhio Magpie, CC BY 4.0, cropped; Luang Prabang by Basile Morin, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Bodrum or Luang Prabang?

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
  • nightlife
  • day trips

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

Choose Luang Prabang for

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Luang Prabang’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, Luang Prabang 14: Bodrum leads by 66 points.
Food & drink. Bodrum 60, Luang Prabang 42: Bodrum leads by 18 points.
Culture & sights. Bodrum 45, Luang Prabang 65: Luang Prabang leads by 20 points.
Nightlife. Bodrum 65, Luang Prabang 8: Bodrum leads by 57 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bodrum 60, Luang Prabang 68: Luang Prabang leads by 8 points.
Day trips. Bodrum 72, Luang Prabang 35: Bodrum leads by 37 points.
Good for families. Bodrum 66, Luang Prabang 38: Bodrum leads by 28 points.
Getting around. Bodrum 42, Luang Prabang 50: Luang Prabang leads by 8 points.
Shopping & style. Bodrum 45, Luang Prabang 38: Bodrum leads by 7 points.
Affordability. Bodrum 38, Luang Prabang 80: Luang Prabang leads by 42 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bodrum 32, Luang Prabang 18: Bodrum leads by 14 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bodrum 52, Luang Prabang 60: Luang Prabang leads by 8 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bodrum and Luang Prabang.

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 nightlife with your weighting.

Luang Prabang
43match

Wins on prices and culture and sights 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

Luang Prabang in July

33 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
250 mmrain in the month
4 hsunshine a day
No seasea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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BodrumLuang Prabang

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). Luang Prabang: 1991-2020 normals, Luang-Prabang (0.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBodrumLuang Prabang
Official languageTurkishLao
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Lao Kip (LAK)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzABCEF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC+7
Emergency number112Police 191, ambulance 195, fire 190
Elevation10 m305 m
Main airportMilas Bodrum International Airport (BJV)32 km from centre83 non-stop destinationsLuang Phabang International Airport (LPQ)4 km from centre7 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days-

By the numbers

MeasureBodrumLuang Prabang
City population175,00053,792
People per km²314-
Museums within 10 km40
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 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.