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Bodrum Castle and gulets in the harbour, Bodrum
BodrumBodrum Castle and gulets in the harbour
São Paulo Cathedral, Sao Paulo
Sao PauloSão Paulo Cathedral

Photos: Bodrum by Serhio Magpie, CC BY 4.0, cropped; Sao Paulo by Webysther Nunes, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Bodrum or Sao Paulo?

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
  • wellness
  • day trips

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

Choose Sao Paulo for

  • live music and the arts
  • shopping
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on Sao Paulo’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, Sao Paulo 42: Bodrum leads by 38 points.
Food & drink. Bodrum 60, Sao Paulo 84: Sao Paulo leads by 24 points.
Culture & sights. Bodrum 45, Sao Paulo 60: Sao Paulo leads by 15 points.
Nightlife. Bodrum 65, Sao Paulo 86: Sao Paulo leads by 21 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bodrum 60, Sao Paulo 48: Bodrum leads by 12 points.
Day trips. Bodrum 72, Sao Paulo 47: Bodrum leads by 25 points.
Good for families. Bodrum 66, Sao Paulo 52: Bodrum leads by 14 points.
Getting around. Bodrum 42, Sao Paulo 44: Sao Paulo leads by 2 points.
Shopping & style. Bodrum 45, Sao Paulo 70: Sao Paulo leads by 25 points.
Affordability. Bodrum 38, Sao Paulo 62: Sao Paulo leads by 24 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bodrum 32, Sao Paulo 76: Sao Paulo leads by 44 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bodrum 52, Sao Paulo 25: Bodrum leads by 27 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bodrum and Sao Paulo.

Your match

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

Bodrum
55match

Wins on beaches and wellness with your weighting.

Sao Paulo
Best match
58match

Wins on live music and the arts and shopping 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
No recordsunshine a day
24 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Sao Paulo in July

23 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
53 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
No seasea
11 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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BodrumSao Paulo

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.

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). Sao Paulo: 1991-2020 normals, Sao Paulo (5.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBodrumSao Paulo
Official languageTurkishPortuguese
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Brazilian Real (BRL)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCN60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC-3
Emergency number112Police 190, ambulance 192, fire 193
Elevation10 m760 m
Main airportMilas Bodrum International Airport (BJV)32 km from centre83 non-stop destinationsSão Paulo/Guarulhos–Governor André Franco Montoro International Airport (GRU)21 km from centre104 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureBodrumSao Paulo
City population175,00011,451,999
People per km²3147,519
Museums within 10 km490
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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.