VacationSelector

Bodrum or Reykjavik?

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, level with your weighting

Bodrum
46
match

Wins on value for money and year-round weather with your weighting.

Reykjavik
46
match

Wins on nature & day trips and museums & heritage with your weighting.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

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

BodrumReykjavik
Beaches & swimming. Bodrum leads by 17 points.17
BodrumReykjavik
Score7760
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km3033
Coast distance0 km0 km
Water distance0 km0 km
Places to eat. Bodrum leads by 1 points.1
BodrumReykjavik
Score5049
Restaurants within 2 km of centre444261
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2029
Museums & heritage. Reykjavik leads by 30 points.30
BodrumReykjavik
Score2050
Museums within 10 km534
Museums within 2 km of centre423
Share of museums within 2 km %8068
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Bodrum leads by 18 points.18
BodrumReykjavik
Score4527
Drinking venues within 4 km418192
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre334166
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8086
Nightclubs within 4 km6010
Nature & day trips. Reykjavik leads by 40 points.40
BodrumReykjavik
Score1959
Protected land share 50 km %516
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %3556
Park area within 2 km3 hectares28 hectares
Good for families. Reykjavik leads by 20 points.20
BodrumReykjavik
Score2242
Tourist attractions within 2 km1521
Park area within 2 km3 hectares28 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Reykjavik leads by 30 points.30
BodrumReykjavik
Score1848
Notable places within 2 km1161
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bodrum leads by 48 points.48
BodrumReykjavik
Score8941
Price level global35.2102.8
Daily budget€100€243
Year-round weather. Bodrum leads by 40 points.40
BodrumReykjavik
Score7737
Monthly daytime high13.8 °C to 31.2 °C3.2 °C to 14.9 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 147 mm41 mm to 97 mm
Dry months50
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
Reykjavik
3
3
4
7
10
13
15
14
11
8
5
3
Sea temperature, °C
Bodrum
17
16
16
17
19
22
24
25
24
22
20
19
Reykjavik
5
5
5
6
7
10
11
11
10
8
7
6
Rainfall, mm
Bodrum
140
96
71
51
25
3
0
0
12
42
103
147
Reykjavik
86
87
84
56
49
41
50
66
87
80
86
97
Daylight, hours per day
Bodrum
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
13
11
10
10
Reykjavik
6
9
12
15
18
21
20
16
13
10
7
4
Sunshine, hours per day
Bodrum
No sunshine record
Reykjavik
1
2
4
5
7
6
6
5
4
3
1
0

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). Reykjavik: 1991-2020 normals, Reykjavik (2.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBodrumReykjavik
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 10 m
€50-55
BJV · 32 km
5 h 30 m
no fares
KEF · 37 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 50 m
€149-173
1 stop
BJV · 32 km
2 h 55 m
€245-283
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
CopenhagenCPH
3 h 25 m
no fares
KGS · 40 km
3 h 10 m
€216-282
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
AmsterdamAMS
3 h 35 m
€229-250
1 stop
BJV · 32 km
3 h 5 m
€293-407
2 stops
KEF · 37 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
3 h 35 m
no fares
RHO · 91 km
3 h 20 m
€247-346
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
ManchesterMAN
4 h 5 m
no fares
BJV · 32 km
2 h 35 m
€227-256
KEF · 37 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
3 h 5 m
€232-285
1 stop
BJV · 32 km
3 h 30 m
€313-393
2 stops
KEF · 37 km
OsloOSL, TRF
3 h 55 m
no fares
SMI · 86 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
KEF · 37 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 50 m
no fares
KGS · 40 km
4 h 0 m
€160-192
KEF · 37 km
BerlinBER
3 h 5 m
€182-261
1 stop
KGS · 40 km
3 h 30 m
€245-365
1 stop
KEF · 37 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

MeasureBodrumReykjavik
Official languageTurkishIcelandic
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Iceland Krona (ISK)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC
Emergency number112112
Elevation10 m8 m
Main airportMilas Bodrum International Airport (BJV)32 km from centre82 non-stop destinationsKeflavik International Airport (KEF)37 km from centre88 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureBodrumReykjavik
City population175,000138,772
People per km²314569
Museums within 10 km423
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre3042
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 monthsNone

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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.