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Bodrum Castle and gulets in the harbour, Bodrum
BodrumBodrum Castle and gulets in the harbour
The Casino de Monte-Carlo, Monaco
MonacoThe Casino de Monte-Carlo

Photos: Bodrum by Serhio Magpie, CC BY 4.0, cropped; Monaco by otterboris, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

Bodrum or Monaco?

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

  • prices
  • nightlife
  • beaches

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

Choose Monaco for

  • getting around
  • live music and the arts
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Monaco’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, Monaco 68: Bodrum leads by 12 points.
Food & drink. Bodrum 60, Monaco 57: Bodrum leads by 3 points.
Culture & sights. Bodrum 45, Monaco 55: Monaco leads by 10 points.
Nightlife. Bodrum 65, Monaco 48: Bodrum leads by 17 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bodrum 60, Monaco 70: Monaco leads by 10 points.
Day trips. Bodrum 72, Monaco 84: Monaco leads by 12 points.
Good for families. Bodrum 66, Monaco 60: Bodrum leads by 6 points.
Getting around. Bodrum 42, Monaco 78: Monaco leads by 36 points.
Shopping & style. Bodrum 45, Monaco 52: Monaco leads by 7 points.
Affordability. Bodrum 38, Monaco 3: Bodrum leads by 35 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bodrum 32, Monaco 63: Monaco leads by 31 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bodrum 52, Monaco 55: Monaco leads by 3 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bodrum and Monaco.

Your match

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

Bodrum
55match

Wins on prices and nightlife with your weighting.

Monaco
Best match
58match

Wins on getting around 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

Monaco in July

28 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
13 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
24 °Csea
15 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). Monaco: 1991-2020 normals, Nice (19.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBodrumMonaco
Official languageTurkishFrench
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCEF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation10 m68 m
Main airportMilas Bodrum International Airport (BJV)32 km from centre83 non-stop destinationsNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)18 km from centre130 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureBodrumMonaco
City population175,00038,857
People per km²31418,503
Museums within 10 km414
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months4 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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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.