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Bodrum Castle and gulets in the harbour, Bodrum
BodrumBodrum Castle and gulets in the harbour
Colourful houses in the old town, Mazatlan
MazatlanColourful houses in the old town

Photos: Bodrum by Serhio Magpie, CC BY 4.0, cropped; Mazatlan by Gzzz, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Bodrum or Mazatlan?

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
  • wellness
  • shopping

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

Choose Mazatlan for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Mazatlan’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 and Mazatlan are level on 80.
Food & drink. Bodrum 60, Mazatlan 62: Mazatlan leads by 2 points.
Culture & sights. Bodrum 45, Mazatlan 42: Bodrum leads by 3 points.
Nightlife. Bodrum 65, Mazatlan 55: Bodrum leads by 10 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bodrum 60, Mazatlan 66: Mazatlan leads by 6 points.
Day trips. Bodrum 72, Mazatlan 45: Bodrum leads by 27 points.
Good for families. Bodrum 66, Mazatlan 60: Bodrum leads by 6 points.
Getting around. Bodrum and Mazatlan are level on 42.
Shopping & style. Bodrum 45, Mazatlan 30: Bodrum leads by 15 points.
Affordability. Bodrum 38, Mazatlan 70: Mazatlan leads by 32 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bodrum 32, Mazatlan 40: Mazatlan leads by 8 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bodrum 52, Mazatlan 35: Bodrum leads by 17 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bodrum and Mazatlan.

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 wellness with your weighting.

Mazatlan
52match

Wins on prices and live music and the arts 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

Mazatlan in July

34 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
153 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
29 °Csea
13 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). Mazatlan: 1991-2020 normals, Colonia Juan Carras-Co Mazatlan, Sin. (2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBodrumMazatlan
Official languageTurkishSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC-7
Emergency number112911
Elevation10 m139 m
Main airportMilas Bodrum International Airport (BJV)32 km from centre83 non-stop destinationsGeneral Rafael Buelna International Airport (MZT)16 km from centre23 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureBodrumMazatlan
City population175,000441,975
People per km²314-
Museums within 10 km43
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months12 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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.