VacationSelector

Bodrum or Ottawa?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Bodrum
✓ Best match
46
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and value for money with your weighting.

Ottawa
43
match

Wins on sights concentration and good for families with your weighting.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

BodrumOttawa
Beaches & swimming. Bodrum leads by 77 points.77
BodrumOttawa
Score770
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km309
Coast distance0 km423 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Ottawa leads by 14 points.14
BodrumOttawa
Score5064
Restaurants within 2 km of centre444684
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2034
Museums & heritage. Ottawa leads by 12 points.12
BodrumOttawa
Score2032
Museums within 10 km515
Museums within 2 km of centre48
Share of museums within 2 km %8053
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Bodrum leads by 1 points.1
BodrumOttawa
Score4544
Drinking venues within 4 km418432
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre334303
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8070
Nightclubs within 4 km6035
Nature & day trips. Ottawa leads by 22 points.22
BodrumOttawa
Score1941
Protected land share 50 km %58
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %35100
Park area within 2 km3 hectares122 hectares
Good for families. Ottawa leads by 24 points.24
BodrumOttawa
Score2246
Tourist attractions within 2 km1511
Park area within 2 km3 hectares122 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Ottawa leads by 32 points.32
BodrumOttawa
Score1850
Notable places within 2 km1171
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bodrum leads by 35 points.35
BodrumOttawa
Score8954
Price level global35.284
Daily budget€100
Year-round weather. Bodrum leads by 24 points.24
BodrumOttawa
Score7753
Monthly daytime high13.8 °C to 31.2 °C-4.9 °C to 27 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 147 mm53 mm to 94 mm
Dry months50
0255075100

When should you go?

The figures behind each month. Each row is shaded against that destination's own year, so the deepest cell is its best month for that measure and the palest its weakest. Shades are not comparable between the two rows.

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Daytime high, °C
Bodrum
14
15
17
20
24
28
31
31
28
24
19
16
Ottawa
-5
-3
3
11
19
24
27
26
22
14
6
-2
Sea temperature, °C
Bodrum
17
16
16
17
19
22
24
25
24
22
20
19
Ottawa
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Bodrum
140
96
71
51
25
3
0
0
12
42
103
147
Ottawa
60
53
56
74
66
87
82
89
78
94
59
80
Daylight, hours per day
Bodrum
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
13
11
10
10
Ottawa
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bodrum: 1993-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Kos Airport (42.7 km from centre). Ottawa: 1991-2020 normals, Ottawa CDA RCS (5.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBodrumOttawa
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 50 m
€149-173
1 stop
BJV · 32 km
6 h 55 m
no fares
YOW · 12 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
3 h 35 m
no fares
RHO · 91 km
7 h 20 m
no fares
YOW · 12 km

The busiest departure cities for these two, with a place kept for each other part of the world. Busiest means arriving passengers where an official count exists, and where none does, the number of non-stop services flown: official route statistics are published by the European reporting countries and by nobody else, so a table ranked on them alone would offer a reader in New York or Tokyo ten European cities. Flying times are estimated from the distance between airports, and every row is a city flown non-stop to both. Where the typical offer connects anyway, the stops are shown. Under each figure is the airport the flight lands at and how far that is from the centre, because the nearest airport is not always the one a route is flown to. Where both columns name the same airport it is one flight, and the difference between the two is the distance printed beside it. Typical return fares for 2026-08 to 2026-10, cached market data up to 7 days old. The figure is the middle half of the offers found, so a single price means they agreed and a range means they did not; for a typical route that middle half spans about a quarter of the median, and for the least settled routes rather more than the median itself.

Before you go

MeasureBodrumOttawa
Official languageTurkishFrench, English
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation10 m70 m
Main airportMilas Bodrum International Airport (BJV)32 km from centre82 non-stop destinationsOttawa Macdonald-Cartier International Airport (YOW)12 km from centre46 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBodrumOttawa
City population175,0001,017,449
People per km²314366
Museums within 10 km420
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre3062
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months

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Sources

© OpenStreetMap contributors, data available under the Open Database Licence. Place counts include data from Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA Permissive 2.0), assembled from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and other providers. Notable-place counts from Wikidata (CC0), weighted by Wikipedia language editions. Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. 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. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0.

Scores follow rubric v2; snapshot generated 2026-08-31. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.