VacationSelector

Bodrum or Malaga?

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 value for money and beaches & swimming with your weighting.

Malaga
✓ Best match
59
match

Wins on museums & heritage and good for families 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.

BodrumMalaga
Beaches & swimming. Bodrum leads by 11 points.11
BodrumMalaga
Score7766
Swim season months53
Beaches 10 km3021
Coast distance0 km0 km
Water distance0 km0 km
Places to eat. Malaga leads by 19 points.19
BodrumMalaga
Score5069
Restaurants within 2 km of centre4441,002
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2034
Museums & heritage. Malaga leads by 33 points.33
BodrumMalaga
Score2053
Museums within 10 km540
Museums within 2 km of centre435
Share of museums within 2 km %8088
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Malaga leads by 9 points.9
BodrumMalaga
Score4554
Drinking venues within 4 km418715
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre334486
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8068
Nightclubs within 4 km6045
Nature & day trips. Malaga leads by 24 points.24
BodrumMalaga
Score1943
Protected land share 50 km %57
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %3563
Park area within 2 km3 hectares85 hectares
Good for families. Malaga leads by 31 points.31
BodrumMalaga
Score2253
Tourist attractions within 2 km1533
Park area within 2 km3 hectares85 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Malaga leads by 19 points.19
BodrumMalaga
Score1837
Notable places within 2 km1133
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bodrum leads by 18 points.18
BodrumMalaga
Score8971
Price level global35.260.8
Daily budget€100€122
Year-round weather. Malaga leads by 5 points.5
BodrumMalaga
Score7782
Monthly daytime high13.8 °C to 31.2 °C17.2 °C to 31.5 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 147 mm0 mm to 88 mm
Dry months55
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
Malaga
17
18
20
22
25
29
31
32
28
24
20
18
Sea temperature, °C
Bodrum
17
16
16
17
19
22
24
25
24
22
20
19
Malaga
15
15
15
16
18
20
22
23
22
20
17
16
Rainfall, mm
Bodrum
140
96
71
51
25
3
0
0
12
42
103
147
Malaga
62
55
66
41
23
4
0
3
25
60
78
88
Daylight, hours per day
Bodrum
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
13
11
10
10
Malaga
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Bodrum
No sunshine record
Malaga
6
6
7
8
10
11
12
11
8
7
6
5

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). Malaga: 1991-2020 normals, Malaga / Aeropuerto (8.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBodrumMalaga
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 10 m
€50-55
BJV · 32 km
4 h 5 m
€185-196
AGP · 9 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 50 m
€149-173
1 stop
BJV · 32 km
2 h 40 m
€67-129
AGP · 9 km
AthensATH
1 h 0 m
no fares
KGS · 40 km
3 h 35 m
no fares
AGP · 9 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
3 h 30 m
€190-240
1 stop
BJV · 32 km
2 h 45 m
€110-142
1 stop
AGP · 9 km
AmsterdamAMS
3 h 35 m
€229-250
1 stop
BJV · 32 km
2 h 55 m
€146-177
AGP · 9 km
BarcelonaBCN
3 h 15 m
no fares
ADB · 142 km
1 h 35 m
€73-109
AGP · 9 km
DublinDUB
4 h 25 m
no fares
BJV · 32 km
2 h 50 m
€122-139
1 stop
AGP · 9 km
ManchesterMAN
4 h 5 m
no fares
BJV · 32 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
AGP · 9 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
3 h 35 m
no fares
RHO · 91 km
2 h 25 m
€92
AGP · 9 km
RiyadhRUH
3 h 20 m
€232-255
1 stop
BJV · 32 km
6 h 35 m
no fares
AGP · 9 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

MeasureBodrumMalaga
Official languageTurkishSpanish
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation10 m18 m
Main airportMilas Bodrum International Airport (BJV)32 km from centre82 non-stop destinationsMálaga-Costa del Sol Airport (AGP)9 km from centre165 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureBodrumMalaga
City population175,000599,063
People per km²3141,517
Museums within 10 km432
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre3065
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months3 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. 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.