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Bodrum Castle and gulets in the harbour, Bodrum
BodrumBodrum Castle and gulets in the harbour
The Opera House on the fjord, Oslo
OsloThe Opera House on the fjord

Photos: Bodrum by Serhio Magpie, CC BY 4.0, cropped; Oslo by Beata May, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Bodrum or Oslo?

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
  • prices
  • day trips

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

Choose Oslo for

  • getting around
  • live music and the arts
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Oslo’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, Oslo 36: Bodrum leads by 44 points.
Food & drink. Bodrum 60, Oslo 55: Bodrum leads by 5 points.
Culture & sights. Bodrum 45, Oslo 66: Oslo leads by 21 points.
Nightlife. Bodrum 65, Oslo 48: Bodrum leads by 17 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bodrum 60, Oslo 82: Oslo leads by 22 points.
Day trips. Bodrum 72, Oslo 52: Bodrum leads by 20 points.
Good for families. Bodrum 66, Oslo 63: Bodrum leads by 3 points.
Getting around. Bodrum 42, Oslo 85: Oslo leads by 43 points.
Shopping & style. Bodrum 45, Oslo 50: Oslo leads by 5 points.
Affordability. Bodrum 38, Oslo 14: Bodrum leads by 24 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bodrum 32, Oslo 62: Oslo leads by 30 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bodrum 52, Oslo 60: Oslo leads by 8 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bodrum and Oslo.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Bodrum
55match

Wins on beaches and prices with your weighting.

Oslo
56match

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

Oslo in July

23 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
86 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
18 °Csea
18 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). Oslo: 1991-2020 normals, Oslo-Blindern (4.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBodrumOslo
Official languageTurkishNorwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, Sámi
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Norwegian Krone (NOK)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112Police 112, ambulance 113, fire 110
Elevation10 m23 m
Main airportMilas Bodrum International Airport (BJV)32 km from centre83 non-stop destinationsOslo-Gardermoen International Airport (OSL)37 km from centre147 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBodrumOslo
City population175,000717,710
People per km²314-
Museums within 10 km460
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 monthsNone

Where else could you go?

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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.