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Bodrum Castle and gulets in the harbour, Bodrum
BodrumBodrum Castle and gulets in the harbour
Palacio Salvo under a blue sky, Montevideo
MontevideoPalacio Salvo under a blue sky

Photos: Bodrum by Serhio Magpie, CC BY 4.0, cropped; Montevideo by Andrés Franchi Ugart…, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Bodrum or Montevideo?

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

  • nature and the outdoors
  • beaches
  • day trips

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

Choose Montevideo for

  • live music and the arts
  • getting around
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on Montevideo’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, Montevideo 55: Bodrum leads by 25 points.
Food & drink. Bodrum 60, Montevideo 57: Bodrum leads by 3 points.
Culture & sights. Bodrum 45, Montevideo 54: Montevideo leads by 9 points.
Nightlife. Bodrum 65, Montevideo 50: Bodrum leads by 15 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bodrum 60, Montevideo 34: Bodrum leads by 26 points.
Day trips. Bodrum 72, Montevideo 55: Bodrum leads by 17 points.
Good for families. Bodrum 66, Montevideo 55: Bodrum leads by 11 points.
Getting around. Bodrum 42, Montevideo 54: Montevideo leads by 12 points.
Shopping & style. Bodrum 45, Montevideo 36: Bodrum leads by 9 points.
Affordability. Bodrum 38, Montevideo 42: Montevideo leads by 4 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bodrum 32, Montevideo 57: Montevideo leads by 25 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bodrum 52, Montevideo 38: Bodrum leads by 14 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bodrum and Montevideo.

Your match

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

Bodrum
Best match
55match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and beaches with your weighting.

Montevideo
49match

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

Montevideo in July

15 °Cdaytime high
6 °Cnight-time low
99 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
11 °Csea
10 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). Montevideo: 1991-2020 normals, Carrasco (19.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBodrumMontevideo
Official languageTurkish-
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Peso Uruguayo (UYU)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCFIL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC-3
Emergency number112911
Elevation10 m41 m
Main airportMilas Bodrum International Airport (BJV)32 km from centre83 non-stop destinationsCarrasco General Cesáreo L. Berisso International Airport (MVD)17 km from centre15 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureBodrumMontevideo
City population175,0001,302,954
People per km²3141,785
Museums within 10 km436
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
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. 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.