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Bodrum Castle and gulets in the harbour, Bodrum
BodrumBodrum Castle and gulets in the harbour
The Riva in front of Diocletian's Palace, Split
SplitThe Riva in front of Diocletian's Palace

Photos: Bodrum by Serhio Magpie, CC BY 4.0, cropped; Split by Bernard Gagnon, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Bodrum or Split?

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

  • nightlife
  • shopping
  • families

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

Choose Split for

  • getting around
  • culture and sights
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Split’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, Split 75: Bodrum leads by 5 points.
Food & drink. Bodrum 60, Split 57: Bodrum leads by 3 points.
Culture & sights. Bodrum 45, Split 66: Split leads by 21 points.
Nightlife. Bodrum 65, Split 52: Bodrum leads by 13 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bodrum 60, Split 77: Split leads by 17 points.
Day trips. Bodrum 72, Split 78: Split leads by 6 points.
Good for families. Bodrum 66, Split 54: Bodrum leads by 12 points.
Getting around. Bodrum 42, Split 67: Split leads by 25 points.
Shopping & style. Bodrum 45, Split 32: Bodrum leads by 13 points.
Affordability. Bodrum 38, Split 45: Split leads by 7 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bodrum 32, Split 37: Split leads by 5 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bodrum 52, Split 40: Bodrum leads by 12 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bodrum and Split.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Bodrum
55match

Wins on nightlife and shopping with your weighting.

Split
57match

Wins on getting around 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
No recordsunshine a day
24 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Split in July

31 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
25 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
24 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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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). Split: 1991-2020 normals, Split / Marjan (0.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBodrumSplit
Official languageTurkishCroatian
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation10 m0 m
Main airportMilas Bodrum International Airport (BJV)32 km from centre83 non-stop destinationsSplit Saint Jerome Airport (SPU)12 km from centre69 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureBodrumSplit
City population175,000160,577
People per km²314-
Museums within 10 km411
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km04
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months4 months

Where else could you go?

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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.