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Bodrum Castle and gulets in the harbour, Bodrum
BodrumBodrum Castle and gulets in the harbour
Punta del Este

Photos: Bodrum by Serhio Magpie, CC BY 4.0, cropped.

Bodrum or Punta del Este?

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

  • day trips
  • culture and sights
  • wellness

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

Choose Punta del Este for

Punta del Este does not lead in any category we score.

What lies behind each score is written up on Punta del Este’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, Punta del Este 72: Bodrum leads by 8 points.
Food & drink. Bodrum 60, Punta del Este 45: Bodrum leads by 15 points.
Culture & sights. Bodrum 45, Punta del Este 22: Bodrum leads by 23 points.
Nightlife. Bodrum 65, Punta del Este 60: Bodrum leads by 5 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bodrum 60, Punta del Este 55: Bodrum leads by 5 points.
Day trips. Bodrum 72, Punta del Este 45: Bodrum leads by 27 points.
Good for families. Bodrum 66, Punta del Este 55: Bodrum leads by 11 points.
Getting around. Bodrum 42, Punta del Este 35: Bodrum leads by 7 points.
Shopping & style. Bodrum 45, Punta del Este 42: Bodrum leads by 3 points.
Affordability. Bodrum 38, Punta del Este 20: Bodrum leads by 18 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bodrum 32, Punta del Este 22: Bodrum leads by 10 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bodrum 52, Punta del Este 32: Bodrum leads by 20 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bodrum and Punta del Este.

Your match

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

Bodrum
Best match
55match

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

Punta del Este
42match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

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

Punta del Este in July

15 °Cdaytime high
6 °Cnight-time low
101 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
12 °Csea
10 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.

Punta del Este's temperatures are measured 79 km from the centre, at Rocha.

Punta del Este 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). Punta del Este: 1991-2020 normals, Rocha (78.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBodrumPunta del Este
Official languageTurkish-
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Peso Uruguayo (UYU)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCFIL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC-3
Emergency number112911
Elevation10 m11 m
Main airportMilas Bodrum International Airport (BJV)32 km from centre83 non-stop destinationsCapitan Corbeta CA Curbelo International Airport (PDP)18 km from centre6 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureBodrumPunta del Este
City population175,0009,277
People per km²314455
Museums within 10 km45
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months3 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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.