VacationSelector

Bodrum or Pisa?

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

Your match

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Bodrum
46
match

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

Pisa
45
match

Wins on museums & heritage and sights concentration with your weighting.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

Scoreboard

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

BodrumPisa
Beaches & swimming. Bodrum leads by 56 points.56
BodrumPisa
Score7721
Swim season months54
Beaches 10 km301
Coast distance0 km10 km
Water distance0 km10 km
Places to eat. Bodrum leads by 16 points.16
BodrumPisa
Score5034
Restaurants within 2 km of centre444379
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km209
Museums & heritage. Pisa leads by 35 points.35
BodrumPisa
Score2055
Museums within 10 km527
Museums within 2 km of centre422
Share of museums within 2 km %8081
Unesco sites within 50 km03
Nightlife. Bodrum leads by 17 points.17
BodrumPisa
Score4528
Drinking venues within 4 km418232
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre334203
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8088
Nightclubs within 4 km603
Nature & day trips. Pisa leads by 20 points.20
BodrumPisa
Score1939
Protected land share 50 km %59
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %3565
Park area within 2 km3 hectares40 hectares
Good for families. Pisa leads by 25 points.25
BodrumPisa
Score2247
Tourist attractions within 2 km1520
Park area within 2 km3 hectares40 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Pisa leads by 29 points.29
BodrumPisa
Score1847
Notable places within 2 km1158
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bodrum leads by 21 points.21
BodrumPisa
Score8968
Price level global35.264.9
Daily budget€100€155
Year-round weather. Bodrum leads by 7 points.7
BodrumPisa
Score7770
Monthly daytime high13.8 °C to 31.2 °C11.4 °C to 30.3 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 147 mm32 mm to 132 mm
Dry months52
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
Pisa
11
13
16
18
23
27
30
30
26
21
16
12
Sea temperature, °C
Bodrum
17
16
16
17
19
22
24
25
24
22
20
19
Pisa
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
Rainfall, mm
Bodrum
140
96
71
51
25
3
0
0
12
42
103
147
Pisa
68
58
59
65
63
41
32
35
102
125
132
95
Daylight, hours per day
Bodrum
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
13
11
10
10
Pisa
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Bodrum
No sunshine record
Pisa
4
4
6
6
8
9
11
10
7
5
4
3

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). Pisa: 1991-2020 normals, Pisa / S. Giusto (3.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBodrumPisa
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 10 m
€50-55
BJV · 32 km
2 h 25 m
€154-191
1 stop
BLQ · 115 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 50 m
€149-173
1 stop
BJV · 32 km
2 h 5 m
€48-62
PSA · 4 km
TiranaTIA
1 h 40 m
no fares
BJV · 32 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
PSA · 4 km
AthensATH
1 h 0 m
no fares
KGS · 40 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
BLQ · 115 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 20 m
no fares
KGS · 40 km
55 m
€136-139
1 stop
FLR · 65 km
CataniaCTA
2 h 0 m
no fares
RHO · 91 km
1 h 35 m
€55-66
PSA · 4 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
3 h 35 m
no fares
RHO · 91 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
PSA · 4 km
ManchesterMAN
4 h 5 m
no fares
BJV · 32 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
PSA · 4 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
3 h 30 m
€190-240
1 stop
BJV · 32 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
PSA · 4 km
BerlinBER
3 h 5 m
€182-261
1 stop
KGS · 40 km
1 h 50 m
€119-200
1 stop
PSA · 4 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

MeasureBodrumPisa
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 m4 m
Main airportMilas Bodrum International Airport (BJV)32 km from centre82 non-stop destinationsPisa International Airport (PSA)4 km from centre81 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBodrumPisa
City population175,00088,737
People per km²314479
Museums within 10 km427
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Distinct cuisines in the centre3029
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months4 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.