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Bodrum Castle and gulets in the harbour, Bodrum
BodrumBodrum Castle and gulets in the harbour
The colonnaded court of Luxor Temple, Luxor
LuxorThe colonnaded court of Luxor Temple

Photos: Bodrum by Serhio Magpie, CC BY 4.0, cropped; Luxor by Dennis G. Jarvis, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Bodrum or Luxor?

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
  • families

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

Choose Luxor for

  • prices
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on Luxor’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, Luxor 6: Bodrum leads by 74 points.
Food & drink. Bodrum 60, Luxor 30: Bodrum leads by 30 points.
Culture & sights. Bodrum 45, Luxor 95: Luxor leads by 50 points.
Nightlife. Bodrum 65, Luxor 10: Bodrum leads by 55 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bodrum 60, Luxor 32: Bodrum leads by 28 points.
Day trips. Bodrum 72, Luxor 62: Bodrum leads by 10 points.
Good for families. Bodrum 66, Luxor 30: Bodrum leads by 36 points.
Getting around. Bodrum 42, Luxor 35: Bodrum leads by 7 points.
Shopping & style. Bodrum 45, Luxor 25: Bodrum leads by 20 points.
Affordability. Bodrum 38, Luxor 90: Luxor leads by 52 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bodrum 32, Luxor 10: Bodrum leads by 22 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bodrum 52, Luxor 28: Bodrum leads by 24 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bodrum and Luxor.

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.

Luxor
38match

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
24 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Luxor in July

41 °Cdaytime high
27 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
No seasea
14 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.

Luxor 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). Luxor: 1998-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Luxor (6.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBodrumLuxor
Official languageTurkishArabic
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Egyptian Pound (EGP)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112Police 122, ambulance 123, fire 180
Elevation10 m89 m
Main airportMilas Bodrum International Airport (BJV)32 km from centre83 non-stop destinationsLuxor International Airport (LXR)7 km from centre29 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureBodrumLuxor
City population175,000202,232
People per km²314486
Museums within 10 km44
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.