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Bodrum Castle and gulets in the harbour, Bodrum
BodrumBodrum Castle and gulets in the harbour
The Teatro Amazonas, Manaus
ManausThe Teatro Amazonas

Photos: Bodrum by Serhio Magpie, CC BY 4.0, cropped; Manaus by Jardelsliumba, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Bodrum or Manaus?

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

  • day trips
  • beaches
  • wellness

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

Choose Manaus for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • prices
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Manaus’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, Manaus 38: Bodrum leads by 42 points.
Food & drink. Bodrum 60, Manaus 56: Bodrum leads by 4 points.
Culture & sights. Bodrum 45, Manaus 46: Manaus leads by 1 points.
Nightlife. Bodrum 65, Manaus 42: Bodrum leads by 23 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bodrum 60, Manaus 86: Manaus leads by 26 points.
Day trips. Bodrum 72, Manaus 12: Bodrum leads by 60 points.
Good for families. Bodrum 66, Manaus 35: Bodrum leads by 31 points.
Getting around. Bodrum 42, Manaus 27: Bodrum leads by 15 points.
Shopping & style. Bodrum 45, Manaus 36: Bodrum leads by 9 points.
Affordability. Bodrum 38, Manaus 63: Manaus leads by 25 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bodrum 32, Manaus 54: Manaus leads by 22 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bodrum 52, Manaus 20: Bodrum leads by 32 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bodrum and Manaus.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Bodrum
Best match
55match

Wins on day trips and beaches with your weighting.

Manaus
43match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and prices 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

Manaus in July

33 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
74 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
No seasea
12 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.

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). Manaus: 1991-2020 normals, Manaus (1.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBodrumManaus
Official languageTurkishPortuguese
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Brazilian Real (BRL)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCN60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC-4
Emergency number112Police 190, ambulance 192, fire 193
Elevation10 m92 m
Main airportMilas Bodrum International Airport (BJV)32 km from centre83 non-stop destinationsEduardo Gomes International Airport (MAO)9 km from centre21 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureBodrumManaus
City population175,0002,303,732
People per km²314202
Museums within 10 km413
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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.