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Bodrum Castle and gulets in the harbour, Bodrum
BodrumBodrum Castle and gulets in the harbour
The adobe New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe
Santa FeThe adobe New Mexico Museum of Art

Photos: Bodrum by Serhio Magpie, CC BY 4.0, cropped; Santa Fe by dconvertini, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Bodrum or Santa Fe?

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

  • beaches
  • nightlife
  • families

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

Choose Santa Fe for

  • live music and the arts
  • culture and sights
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Santa Fe’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, Santa Fe 5: Bodrum leads by 75 points.
Food & drink. Bodrum 60, Santa Fe 62: Santa Fe leads by 2 points.
Culture & sights. Bodrum 45, Santa Fe 66: Santa Fe leads by 21 points.
Nightlife. Bodrum 65, Santa Fe 22: Bodrum leads by 43 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bodrum 60, Santa Fe 80: Santa Fe leads by 20 points.
Day trips. Bodrum 72, Santa Fe 70: Bodrum leads by 2 points.
Good for families. Bodrum 66, Santa Fe 45: Bodrum leads by 21 points.
Getting around. Bodrum 42, Santa Fe 40: Bodrum leads by 2 points.
Shopping & style. Bodrum 45, Santa Fe 62: Santa Fe leads by 17 points.
Affordability. Bodrum 38, Santa Fe 30: Bodrum leads by 8 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bodrum 32, Santa Fe 55: Santa Fe leads by 23 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bodrum 52, Santa Fe 55: Santa Fe leads by 3 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bodrum and Santa Fe.

Your match

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

Bodrum
Best match
55match

Wins on beaches and nightlife with your weighting.

Santa Fe
49match

Wins on live music and the arts and culture and sights 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

Santa Fe in July

31 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
60 mmrain in the month
No seasea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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BodrumSanta Fe

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.

Santa Fe's station stands 199 m below the city centre, so the centre is likely a little cooler than the figures say.

Santa Fe 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). Santa Fe: 1991-2020 normals, Santa Fe / Cieneguilla (12.4 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBodrumSanta Fe
Official languageTurkish-
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC-7, UTC-6 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation10 m2,134 m
Main airportMilas Bodrum International Airport (BJV)32 km from centre83 non-stop destinationsSanta Fe Municipal Airport (SAF)12 km from centre5 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBodrumSanta Fe
City population175,00087,505
People per km²314645
Museums within 10 km410
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 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.