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Bodrum Castle and gulets in the harbour, Bodrum
BodrumBodrum Castle and gulets in the harbour
A bright beach on turquoise water at Montego Bay, Montego Bay
Montego BayA bright beach on turquoise water at Montego Bay

Photos: Bodrum by Serhio Magpie, CC BY 4.0, cropped; Montego Bay by Dre Dawkcide, Pexels License.

Bodrum or Montego Bay?

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

  • nightlife
  • day trips
  • getting around

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

Choose Montego Bay for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • beaches

What lies behind each score is written up on Montego Bay’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, Montego Bay 84: Montego Bay leads by 4 points.
Food & drink. Bodrum 60, Montego Bay 50: Bodrum leads by 10 points.
Culture & sights. Bodrum 45, Montego Bay 28: Bodrum leads by 17 points.
Nightlife. Bodrum 65, Montego Bay 42: Bodrum leads by 23 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bodrum 60, Montego Bay 65: Montego Bay leads by 5 points.
Day trips. Bodrum 72, Montego Bay 50: Bodrum leads by 22 points.
Good for families. Bodrum 66, Montego Bay 48: Bodrum leads by 18 points.
Getting around. Bodrum 42, Montego Bay 20: Bodrum leads by 22 points.
Shopping & style. Bodrum 45, Montego Bay 25: Bodrum leads by 20 points.
Affordability. Bodrum and Montego Bay are level on 38.
Live music & performing arts. Bodrum and Montego Bay are level on 32.
Wellness & relaxation. Bodrum 52, Montego Bay 45: Bodrum leads by 7 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bodrum and Montego Bay.

Your match

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

Bodrum
Best match
55match

Wins on nightlife and day trips with your weighting.

Montego Bay
44match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and beaches 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

Montego Bay in July

34 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
75 mmrain in the month
9 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). Montego Bay: 1991-2020 normals, Montego Bay / Sangster (3.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBodrumMontego Bay
Official languageTurkishEnglish, Jamaican Patois
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Jamaican Dollar (JMD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB116 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+3UTC-5
Emergency number112Police 110/112/119/911, ambulance 110, fire 110
Elevation10 m19 m
Main airportMilas Bodrum International Airport (BJV)32 km from centre83 non-stop destinationsSangster International Airport (MBJ)4 km from centre48 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureBodrumMontego Bay
City population175,000123,994
People per km²314-
Museums within 10 km40
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. 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.