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Bodrum Castle and gulets in the harbour, Bodrum
BodrumBodrum Castle and gulets in the harbour
Castel Sant'Elmo and the Certosa di San Martino, Naples
NaplesCastel Sant'Elmo and the Certosa di San Martino

Photos: Bodrum by Serhio Magpie, CC BY 4.0, cropped; Naples by pietro scerrato, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

Bodrum or Naples?

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
  • families
  • wellness

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

Choose Naples for

  • culture and sights
  • live music and the arts
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Naples’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, Naples 50: Bodrum leads by 30 points.
Food & drink. Bodrum 60, Naples 83: Naples leads by 23 points.
Culture & sights. Bodrum 45, Naples 87: Naples leads by 42 points.
Nightlife. Bodrum 65, Naples 60: Bodrum leads by 5 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bodrum 60, Naples 77: Naples leads by 17 points.
Day trips. Bodrum 72, Naples 96: Naples leads by 24 points.
Good for families. Bodrum 66, Naples 45: Bodrum leads by 21 points.
Getting around. Bodrum 42, Naples 54: Naples leads by 12 points.
Shopping & style. Bodrum 45, Naples 60: Naples leads by 15 points.
Affordability. Bodrum 38, Naples 63: Naples leads by 25 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bodrum 32, Naples 66: Naples leads by 34 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bodrum 52, Naples 44: Bodrum leads by 8 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bodrum and Naples.

Your match

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

Bodrum
55match

Wins on beaches and families with your weighting.

Naples
Best match
65match

Wins on culture and sights 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

Naples in July

30 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
23 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
25 °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.

Naples 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.

Naples's sunshine is measured 28 km from the centre, at Grazzanise.

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). Naples: 2005-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Napoli / Capodichino (4.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBodrumNaples
Official languageTurkishItalian
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation10 m17 m
Main airportMilas Bodrum International Airport (BJV)32 km from centre83 non-stop destinationsNaples International Airport (NAP)7 km from centre131 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBodrumNaples
City population175,000913,462
People per km²3147,676
Museums within 10 km465
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km05
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months5 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.