VacationSelector

Bodrum or Palermo?

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

Your match

Bodrum
46
match

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

Palermo
✓ Best match
55
match

Wins on sights concentration and museums & heritage 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.

BodrumPalermo
Beaches & swimming. Bodrum leads by 10 points.10
BodrumPalermo
Score7767
Swim season months55
Beaches 10 km3013
Coast distance0 km1 km
Water distance0 km1 km
Places to eat. Bodrum and Palermo are level on 50.
BodrumPalermo
Score5050
Restaurants within 2 km of centre444807
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2013
Museums & heritage. Palermo leads by 30 points.30
BodrumPalermo
Score2050
Museums within 10 km532
Museums within 2 km of centre426
Share of museums within 2 km %8081
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Palermo leads by 8 points.8
BodrumPalermo
Score4553
Drinking venues within 4 km418799
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre334515
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8064
Nightclubs within 4 km6016
Nature & day trips. Palermo leads by 17 points.17
BodrumPalermo
Score1936
Protected land share 50 km %54
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %3545
Park area within 2 km3 hectares63 hectares
Good for families. Palermo leads by 19 points.19
BodrumPalermo
Score2241
Tourist attractions within 2 km1516
Park area within 2 km3 hectares63 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Palermo leads by 39 points.39
BodrumPalermo
Score1857
Notable places within 2 km11104
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bodrum leads by 21 points.21
BodrumPalermo
Score8968
Price level global35.264.9
Daily budget€100€155
Year-round weather. Bodrum and Palermo are level on 77.
BodrumPalermo
Score7777
Monthly daytime high13.8 °C to 31.2 °C12.6 °C to 27.8 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 147 mm4 mm to 71 mm
Dry months57
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
Palermo
13
13
14
16
20
24
28
28
25
21
17
14
Sea temperature, °C
Bodrum
17
16
16
17
19
22
24
25
24
22
20
19
Palermo
15
14
15
16
19
22
26
27
25
23
20
17
Rainfall, mm
Bodrum
140
96
71
51
25
3
0
0
12
42
103
147
Palermo
48
45
35
35
18
9
4
11
37
67
71
69
Daylight, hours per day
Bodrum
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
13
11
10
10
Palermo
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Bodrum
No sunshine record
Palermo
4
5
6
7
9
10
11
10
8
7
5
4

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). Palermo: 1961-1990 normals, Ustica (66.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBodrumPalermo
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 10 m
€50-55
BJV · 32 km
2 h 15 m
€183-194
PMO · 25 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 50 m
no fares
KGS · 40 km
1 h 45 m
€31-110
PMO · 25 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 20 m
no fares
KGS · 40 km
1 h 10 m
€40-52
PMO · 25 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 50 m
€149-173
1 stop
BJV · 32 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
PMO · 25 km
AthensATH
1 h 0 m
no fares
KGS · 40 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
PMO · 25 km
NaplesNAP
2 h 5 m
no fares
KGS · 40 km
1 h 0 m
€42-84
PMO · 25 km
BolognaBLQ
2 h 30 m
no fares
KGS · 40 km
1 h 30 m
€28-65
PMO · 25 km
VeronaVRN, VBS
2 h 35 m
no fares
KGS · 40 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
PMO · 25 km
PisaPSA
2 h 35 m
no fares
KGS · 40 km
1 h 25 m
€47-105
PMO · 25 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
1 h 45 m
no fares
KGS · 40 km
3 h 10 m
€151-346
1 stop
PMO · 25 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

MeasureBodrumPalermo
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 m14 m
Main airportMilas Bodrum International Airport (BJV)32 km from centre82 non-stop destinationsFalcone–Borsellino Airport (PMO)25 km from centre103 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBodrumPalermo
City population175,000630,167
People per km²3143,924
Museums within 10 km442
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre3033
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months5 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.