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Bodrum Castle and gulets in the harbour, Bodrum
BodrumBodrum Castle and gulets in the harbour
Palermo Cathedral, Palermo
PalermoPalermo Cathedral

Photos: Bodrum by Serhio Magpie, CC BY 4.0, cropped; Palermo by Antonino Giangrasso, Pexels License.

Bodrum or Palermo?

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

  • families
  • wellness
  • nightlife

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

Choose Palermo for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Palermo’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, Palermo 77: Bodrum leads by 3 points.
Food & drink. Bodrum 60, Palermo 81: Palermo leads by 21 points.
Culture & sights. Bodrum 45, Palermo 80: Palermo leads by 35 points.
Nightlife. Bodrum 65, Palermo 58: Bodrum leads by 7 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bodrum 60, Palermo 72: Palermo leads by 12 points.
Day trips. Bodrum 72, Palermo 84: Palermo leads by 12 points.
Good for families. Bodrum 66, Palermo 44: Bodrum leads by 22 points.
Getting around. Bodrum 42, Palermo 50: Palermo leads by 8 points.
Shopping & style. Bodrum 45, Palermo 44: Bodrum leads by 1 points.
Affordability. Bodrum 38, Palermo 63: Palermo leads by 25 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bodrum 32, Palermo 62: Palermo leads by 30 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bodrum 52, Palermo 30: Bodrum leads by 22 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bodrum and Palermo.

Your match

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

Bodrum
55match

Wins on families and wellness with your weighting.

Palermo
Best match
62match

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

Palermo in July

29 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
2 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
26 °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.

Palermo 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.

Palermo's sunshine is measured 67 km from the centre, at Ustica.

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). Palermo: 1991-2020 (sunshine 1961-1990) normals, Palermo / Punta Raisi (24.1 km from centre).

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 centre83 non-stop destinationsFalcone–Borsellino Airport (PMO)25 km from centre106 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
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.