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Bodrum Castle and gulets in the harbour, Bodrum
BodrumBodrum Castle and gulets in the harbour
Flinders Street Station, Melbourne
MelbourneFlinders Street Station

Photos: Bodrum by Serhio Magpie, CC BY 4.0, cropped; Melbourne by Medelam, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Bodrum or Melbourne?

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
  • day trips
  • prices

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

Choose Melbourne for

  • live music and the arts
  • getting around
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Melbourne’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, Melbourne 50: Bodrum leads by 30 points.
Food & drink. Bodrum 60, Melbourne 75: Melbourne leads by 15 points.
Culture & sights. Bodrum 45, Melbourne 57: Melbourne leads by 12 points.
Nightlife. Bodrum 65, Melbourne 75: Melbourne leads by 10 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bodrum 60, Melbourne 70: Melbourne leads by 10 points.
Day trips. Bodrum 72, Melbourne 62: Bodrum leads by 10 points.
Good for families. Bodrum 66, Melbourne 73: Melbourne leads by 7 points.
Getting around. Bodrum 42, Melbourne 76: Melbourne leads by 34 points.
Shopping & style. Bodrum 45, Melbourne 70: Melbourne leads by 25 points.
Affordability. Bodrum 38, Melbourne 31: Bodrum leads by 7 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bodrum 32, Melbourne 72: Melbourne leads by 40 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bodrum 52, Melbourne 54: Melbourne leads by 2 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bodrum and Melbourne.

Your match

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

Bodrum
55match

Wins on beaches and day trips with your weighting.

Melbourne
Best match
64match

Wins on live music and the arts and getting around 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

Melbourne in July

14 °Cdaytime high
6 °Cnight-time low
46 mmrain in the month
4 hsunshine a day
12 °Csea
10 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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BodrumMelbourne

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). Melbourne: 1991-2020 normals, Latrobe University / Kingsbury (13.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBodrumMelbourne
Official languageTurkishEnglish
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Australian Dollar (AUD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzI230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+3UTC+10, UTC+11 in summer
Emergency number112000
Elevation10 m31 m
Main airportMilas Bodrum International Airport (BJV)32 km from centre83 non-stop destinationsMelbourne Airport (MEL)19 km from centre69 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBodrumMelbourne
City population175,0005,350,705
People per km²314535
Museums within 10 km443
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 monthsNone

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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.