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Bodrum Castle and gulets in the harbour, Bodrum
BodrumBodrum Castle and gulets in the harbour
Lower Broadway and its honky-tonks, Nashville
NashvilleLower Broadway and its honky-tonks

Photos: Bodrum by Serhio Magpie, CC BY 4.0, cropped; Nashville by Warren LeMay, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Bodrum or Nashville?

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
  • wellness
  • day trips

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

Choose Nashville for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Nashville’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, Nashville 14: Bodrum leads by 66 points.
Food & drink. Bodrum 60, Nashville 62: Nashville leads by 2 points.
Culture & sights. Bodrum 45, Nashville 50: Nashville leads by 5 points.
Nightlife. Bodrum 65, Nashville 70: Nashville leads by 5 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bodrum 60, Nashville 46: Bodrum leads by 14 points.
Day trips. Bodrum 72, Nashville 52: Bodrum leads by 20 points.
Good for families. Bodrum 66, Nashville 55: Bodrum leads by 11 points.
Getting around. Bodrum 42, Nashville 30: Bodrum leads by 12 points.
Shopping & style. Bodrum 45, Nashville 42: Bodrum leads by 3 points.
Affordability. Bodrum 38, Nashville 30: Bodrum leads by 8 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bodrum 32, Nashville 82: Nashville leads by 50 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bodrum 52, Nashville 20: Bodrum leads by 32 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bodrum and Nashville.

Your match

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

Bodrum
Best match
55match

Wins on beaches and wellness with your weighting.

Nashville
46match

Wins on live music and the arts and culture and sights 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
24 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Nashville in July

32 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
104 mmrain in the month
No seasea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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BodrumNashville

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). Nashville: 1991-2020 normals, Nashville Airport (9.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBodrumNashville
Official languageTurkish-
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC-6, UTC-5 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation10 m182 m
Main airportMilas Bodrum International Airport (BJV)32 km from centre83 non-stop destinationsNashville International Airport (BNA)10 km from centre122 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBodrumNashville
City population175,000689,447
People per km²314506
Museums within 10 km412
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 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.