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Bodrum Castle and gulets in the harbour, Bodrum
BodrumBodrum Castle and gulets in the harbour
Playa de los Muertos below the green hills, Puerto Vallarta
Puerto VallartaPlaya de los Muertos below the green hills

Photos: Bodrum by Serhio Magpie, CC BY 4.0, cropped; Puerto Vallarta by RL0919, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Bodrum or Puerto Vallarta?

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
  • shopping

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

Choose Puerto Vallarta for

  • prices
  • nature and the outdoors
  • beaches

What lies behind each score is written up on Puerto Vallarta’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 Vallarta 85: Puerto Vallarta leads by 5 points.
Food & drink. Bodrum 60, Puerto Vallarta 62: Puerto Vallarta leads by 2 points.
Culture & sights. Bodrum 45, Puerto Vallarta 28: Bodrum leads by 17 points.
Nightlife. Bodrum 65, Puerto Vallarta 66: Puerto Vallarta leads by 1 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bodrum 60, Puerto Vallarta 76: Puerto Vallarta leads by 16 points.
Day trips. Bodrum 72, Puerto Vallarta 55: Bodrum leads by 17 points.
Good for families. Bodrum 66, Puerto Vallarta 65: Bodrum leads by 1 points.
Getting around. Bodrum 42, Puerto Vallarta 45: Puerto Vallarta leads by 3 points.
Shopping & style. Bodrum 45, Puerto Vallarta 42: Bodrum leads by 3 points.
Affordability. Bodrum 38, Puerto Vallarta 60: Puerto Vallarta leads by 22 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bodrum and Puerto Vallarta are level on 32.
Wellness & relaxation. Bodrum and Puerto Vallarta are level on 52.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bodrum and Puerto Vallarta.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Bodrum
55match

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

Puerto Vallarta
56match

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
24 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Puerto Vallarta in July

34 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
209 mmrain in the month
30 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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BodrumPuerto Vallarta

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 Vallarta has no weather station within reach, so its figures come from a gridded climate model rather than a measured record, and read a broad area rather than the city itself.

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 Vallarta: 1991-2020 normals, TerraClimate 4 km grid at the town, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureBodrumPuerto Vallarta
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 m101 m
Main airportMilas Bodrum International Airport (BJV)32 km from centre83 non-stop destinationsPuerto Vallarta International Airport (PVR)5 km from centre52 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureBodrumPuerto Vallarta
City population175,000224,166
People per km²3144,311
Museums within 10 km42
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
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. Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. 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.