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Bodrum Castle and gulets in the harbour, Bodrum
BodrumBodrum Castle and gulets in the harbour
The boardwalk at Delaware Avenue, Rehoboth Beach
Rehoboth BeachThe boardwalk at Delaware Avenue

Photos: Bodrum by Serhio Magpie, CC BY 4.0, cropped; Rehoboth Beach by Dough4872, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Bodrum or Rehoboth Beach?

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
  • nightlife
  • day trips

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

Choose Rehoboth Beach for

  • getting around
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Rehoboth Beach’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, Rehoboth Beach 70: Bodrum leads by 10 points.
Food & drink. Bodrum 60, Rehoboth Beach 44: Bodrum leads by 16 points.
Culture & sights. Bodrum 45, Rehoboth Beach 14: Bodrum leads by 31 points.
Nightlife. Bodrum 65, Rehoboth Beach 40: Bodrum leads by 25 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bodrum 60, Rehoboth Beach 50: Bodrum leads by 10 points.
Day trips. Bodrum 72, Rehoboth Beach 50: Bodrum leads by 22 points.
Good for families. Bodrum 66, Rehoboth Beach 70: Rehoboth Beach leads by 4 points.
Getting around. Bodrum 42, Rehoboth Beach 50: Rehoboth Beach leads by 8 points.
Shopping & style. Bodrum and Rehoboth Beach are level on 45.
Affordability. Bodrum 38, Rehoboth Beach 32: Bodrum leads by 6 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bodrum 32, Rehoboth Beach 28: Bodrum leads by 4 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bodrum 52, Rehoboth Beach 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 Rehoboth Beach.

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 nightlife with your weighting.

Rehoboth Beach
44match

Wins on getting around and families 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

Rehoboth Beach in July

31 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
92 mmrain in the month
23 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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BodrumRehoboth Beach

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.

Rehoboth Beach 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). Rehoboth Beach: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Georgetown / Rogers Development (24.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBodrumRehoboth Beach
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 m5 m
Main airportMilas Bodrum International Airport (BJV)32 km from centre83 non-stop destinationsSalisbury Ocean City Wicomico Regional Airport (SBY)56 km from centre4 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureBodrumRehoboth Beach
City population175,0001,108
People per km²314258
Museums within 10 km42
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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.