VacationSelector

Bodrum or San Diego?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Bodrum
46
match

Wins on value for money and beaches & swimming with your weighting.

San Diego
✓ Best match
58
match

Wins on good for families and nature & day trips 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.

BodrumSan Diego
Beaches & swimming. Bodrum leads by 14 points.14
BodrumSan Diego
Score7763
Swim season months51
Beaches 10 km3042
Coast distance0 km1 km
Water distance0 km1 km
Places to eat. San Diego leads by 13 points.13
BodrumSan Diego
Score5063
Restaurants within 2 km of centre444823
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2027
Museums & heritage. San Diego leads by 24 points.24
BodrumSan Diego
Score2044
Museums within 10 km559
Museums within 2 km of centre430
Share of museums within 2 km %8051
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. San Diego leads by 5 points.5
BodrumSan Diego
Score4550
Drinking venues within 4 km418615
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre334408
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8066
Nightclubs within 4 km6031
Nature & day trips. San Diego leads by 36 points.36
BodrumSan Diego
Score1955
Protected land share 50 km %56
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %3552
Park area within 2 km3 hectares308 hectares
Good for families. San Diego leads by 53 points.53
BodrumSan Diego
Score2275
Tourist attractions within 2 km1540
Park area within 2 km3 hectares308 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km13
Sights concentration. San Diego leads by 22 points.22
BodrumSan Diego
Score1840
Notable places within 2 km1140
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bodrum leads by 46 points.46
BodrumSan Diego
Score8943
Price level global35.2100
Daily budget€100
Year-round weather. San Diego leads by 11 points.11
BodrumSan Diego
Score7788
Monthly daytime high13.8 °C to 31.2 °C18.6 °C to 25 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 147 mm0 mm to 56 mm
Dry months59
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
San Diego
19
19
19
20
21
22
24
25
25
23
21
19
Sea temperature, °C
Bodrum
17
16
16
17
19
22
24
25
24
22
20
19
San Diego
15
15
16
16
17
19
20
21
21
19
18
16
Rainfall, mm
Bodrum
140
96
71
51
25
3
0
0
12
42
103
147
San Diego
50
56
37
17
7
1
2
0
3
13
20
42
Daylight, hours per day
Bodrum
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
13
11
10
10
San Diego
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
11
10

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). San Diego: 1991-2020 normals, San Diego International Airport (2.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBodrumSan Diego
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 50 m
€149-173
1 stop
BJV · 32 km
11 h 0 m
no fares
SAN · 3 km
AmsterdamAMS
3 h 35 m
€229-250
1 stop
BJV · 32 km
11 h 15 m
no fares
SAN · 3 km
MunichMUC
2 h 45 m
€197-226
1 stop
BJV · 32 km
12 h 5 m
no fares
SAN · 3 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

MeasureBodrumSan Diego
Official languageTurkish
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation10 m129 m
Main airportMilas Bodrum International Airport (BJV)32 km from centre82 non-stop destinationsSan Diego International Airport (SAN)3 km from centre87 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBodrumSan Diego
City population175,0001,386,932
People per km²3141,438
Museums within 10 km426
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre3044
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months1 month

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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.