VacationSelector

Bodrum or Philadelphia?

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 beaches & swimming and value for money with your weighting.

Philadelphia
✓ Best match
51
match

Wins on museums & heritage and sights concentration 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.

BodrumPhiladelphia
Beaches & swimming. Bodrum leads by 77 points.77
BodrumPhiladelphia
Score770
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km301
Coast distance0 km13 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Philadelphia leads by 27 points.27
BodrumPhiladelphia
Score5077
Restaurants within 2 km of centre4441,714
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2035
Museums & heritage. Philadelphia leads by 40 points.40
BodrumPhiladelphia
Score2060
Museums within 10 km589
Museums within 2 km of centre448
Share of museums within 2 km %8054
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Philadelphia leads by 14 points.14
BodrumPhiladelphia
Score4559
Drinking venues within 4 km418930
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre334575
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8062
Nightclubs within 4 km6041
Nature & day trips. Philadelphia leads by 30 points.30
BodrumPhiladelphia
Score1949
Protected land share 50 km %514
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %3589
Park area within 2 km3 hectares75 hectares
Good for families. Philadelphia leads by 31 points.31
BodrumPhiladelphia
Score2253
Tourist attractions within 2 km1516
Park area within 2 km3 hectares75 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km14
Sights concentration. Philadelphia leads by 36 points.36
BodrumPhiladelphia
Score1854
Notable places within 2 km1188
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bodrum leads by 46 points.46
BodrumPhiladelphia
Score8943
Price level global35.2100
Daily budget€100
Year-round weather. Bodrum leads by 17 points.17
BodrumPhiladelphia
Score7760
Monthly daytime high13.8 °C to 31.2 °C5.2 °C to 31 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 147 mm69 mm to 112 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
Philadelphia
5
7
12
18
24
28
31
30
26
20
13
8
Sea temperature, °C
Bodrum
17
16
16
17
19
22
24
25
24
22
20
19
Philadelphia
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Bodrum
140
96
71
51
25
3
0
0
12
42
103
147
Philadelphia
79
69
101
88
86
103
111
109
112
88
74
101
Daylight, hours per day
Bodrum
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
13
11
10
10
Philadelphia
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Bodrum
No sunshine record
Philadelphia
4
5
6
7
9
9
8
9
7
7
5
5

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). Philadelphia: 1991-2020 normals, Philadelphia International Airport (11.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBodrumPhiladelphia
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 10 m
€50-55
BJV · 32 km
10 h 10 m
no fares
EWR · 117 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 50 m
€149-173
1 stop
BJV · 32 km
7 h 20 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
AthensATH
1 h 0 m
no fares
KGS · 40 km
10 h 10 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
DublinDUB
4 h 25 m
no fares
BJV · 32 km
6 h 50 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
ManchesterMAN
4 h 5 m
no fares
BJV · 32 km
7 h 0 m
no fares
JFK · 140 km
ZurichZRH
2 h 55 m
no fares
KGS · 40 km
8 h 15 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
2 h 45 m
€232-282
2 stops
BJV · 32 km
8 h 45 m
no fares
EWR · 117 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 50 m
no fares
KGS · 40 km
8 h 25 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
3 h 30 m
€190-240
1 stop
BJV · 32 km
7 h 35 m
no fares
EWR · 117 km
DohaDOH
3 h 45 m
no fares
BJV · 32 km
13 h 30 m
no fares
PHL · 11 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

MeasureBodrumPhiladelphia
Official languageTurkish
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation10 m12 m
Main airportMilas Bodrum International Airport (BJV)32 km from centre82 non-stop destinationsPhiladelphia International Airport (PHL)11 km from centre128 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureBodrumPhiladelphia
City population175,0001,603,797
People per km²3144,339
Museums within 10 km454
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre3075
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.