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Bodrum Castle and gulets in the harbour, Bodrum
BodrumBodrum Castle and gulets in the harbour
Playa Manzanillo, Puerto Escondido
Puerto EscondidoPlaya Manzanillo

Photos: Bodrum by Serhio Magpie, CC BY 4.0, cropped; Puerto Escondido by theklan, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Bodrum or Puerto Escondido?

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

  • culture and sights
  • day trips
  • families

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

Choose Puerto Escondido for

  • prices
  • nature and the outdoors
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Puerto Escondido’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, Puerto Escondido 82: Puerto Escondido leads by 2 points.
Food & drink. Bodrum 60, Puerto Escondido 48: Bodrum leads by 12 points.
Culture & sights. Bodrum 45, Puerto Escondido 8: Bodrum leads by 37 points.
Nightlife. Bodrum 65, Puerto Escondido 45: Bodrum leads by 20 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bodrum 60, Puerto Escondido 78: Puerto Escondido leads by 18 points.
Day trips. Bodrum 72, Puerto Escondido 35: Bodrum leads by 37 points.
Good for families. Bodrum 66, Puerto Escondido 42: Bodrum leads by 24 points.
Getting around. Bodrum 42, Puerto Escondido 40: Bodrum leads by 2 points.
Shopping & style. Bodrum 45, Puerto Escondido 22: Bodrum leads by 23 points.
Affordability. Bodrum 38, Puerto Escondido 68: Puerto Escondido leads by 30 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bodrum 32, Puerto Escondido 12: Bodrum leads by 20 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bodrum 52, Puerto Escondido 58: Puerto Escondido leads by 6 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bodrum and Puerto Escondido.

Your match

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

Bodrum
Best match
55match

Wins on culture and sights and day trips with your weighting.

Puerto Escondido
45match

Wins on prices and nature and the outdoors 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

Puerto Escondido in July

33 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
116 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
30 °Csea
13 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.

Puerto Escondido's temperatures are measured 66 km from the centre, at Puerto Angel, Oax..

Puerto Escondido 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.

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). Puerto Escondido: 1991-2020 normals, Puerto Angel, Oax. (65.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBodrumPuerto Escondido
Official languageTurkishSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC-6
Emergency number112911
Elevation10 m60 m
Main airportMilas Bodrum International Airport (BJV)32 km from centre83 non-stop destinationsPuerto Escondido International Airport (PXM)2 km from centre10 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureBodrumPuerto Escondido
City population175,00029,903
People per km²314-
Museums within 10 km40
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months12 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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.