VacationSelector

Bodrum or Santiago?

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 beaches & swimming and value for money with your weighting.

Santiago
✓ Best match
55
match

Wins on nature & day trips and sights concentration 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.

BodrumSantiago
Beaches & swimming. Bodrum leads by 77 points.77
BodrumSantiago
Score770
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km300
Coast distance0 km89 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Santiago leads by 22 points.22
BodrumSantiago
Score5072
Restaurants within 2 km of centre4441,317
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2032
Museums & heritage. Santiago leads by 25 points.25
BodrumSantiago
Score2045
Museums within 10 km587
Museums within 2 km of centre430
Share of museums within 2 km %8034
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Santiago leads by 16 points.16
BodrumSantiago
Score4561
Drinking venues within 4 km418912
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre334542
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8059
Nightclubs within 4 km60112
Nature & day trips. Santiago leads by 33 points.33
BodrumSantiago
Score1952
Protected land share 50 km %517
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %35100
Park area within 2 km3 hectares88 hectares
Good for families. Santiago leads by 27 points.27
BodrumSantiago
Score2249
Tourist attractions within 2 km1512
Park area within 2 km3 hectares88 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km13
Sights concentration. Santiago leads by 30 points.30
BodrumSantiago
Score1848
Notable places within 2 km1162
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bodrum leads by 8 points.8
BodrumSantiago
Score8981
Price level global35.246.2
Daily budget€100
Year-round weather. Santiago leads by 8 points.8
BodrumSantiago
Score7785
Monthly daytime high13.8 °C to 31.2 °C14.3 °C to 27.7 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 147 mm0 mm to 87 mm
Dry months58
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
Santiago
28
27
26
21
18
15
14
16
19
22
25
27
Sea temperature, °C
Bodrum
17
16
16
17
19
22
24
25
24
22
20
19
Santiago
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Bodrum
140
96
71
51
25
3
0
0
12
42
103
147
Santiago
0
2
5
16
46
87
52
44
27
11
6
3
Daylight, hours per day
Bodrum
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
13
11
10
10
Santiago
14
13
12
11
10
10
10
11
12
13
14
14
Sunshine, hours per day
Bodrum
No sunshine record
Santiago
11
9
8
6
5
3
4
5
6
8
9
11

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). Santiago: 1991-2020 normals, Santiago Q. Normal (3.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBodrumSantiago
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 10 m
€50-55
BJV · 32 km
16 h 5 m
€960-1123
SCL · 14 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 50 m
€149-173
1 stop
BJV · 32 km
14 h 25 m
no fares
SCL · 14 km
MadridMAD
3 h 45 m
no fares
ADB · 142 km
13 h 15 m
€799-1378
1 stop
SCL · 14 km
AmsterdamAMS
3 h 35 m
€229-250
1 stop
BJV · 32 km
14 h 45 m
no fares
SCL · 14 km
BarcelonaBCN
3 h 15 m
no fares
ADB · 142 km
13 h 45 m
€774-838
2 stops
SCL · 14 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
3 h 35 m
no fares
RHO · 91 km
14 h 25 m
no fares
SCL · 14 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

MeasureBodrumSantiago
Official languageTurkishSpanish
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Chilean Peso (CLP)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCL220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC-4, UTC-3 in summer
Emergency number112Police 133/134, ambulance 131, fire 132
Elevation10 m575 m
Main airportMilas Bodrum International Airport (BJV)32 km from centre82 non-stop destinationsComodoro Arturo Merino Benítez International Airport (SCL)14 km from centre68 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureBodrumSantiago
City population175,0006,257,516
People per km²3147,468
Museums within 10 km454
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre3064
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months

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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.