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Bodrum Castle and gulets in the harbour, Bodrum
BodrumBodrum Castle and gulets in the harbour
Half-timbered houses on the canal, Petite France, Strasbourg
StrasbourgHalf-timbered houses on the canal, Petite France

Photos: Bodrum by Serhio Magpie, CC BY 4.0, cropped; Strasbourg by Edoardo Colombo, Pexels License.

Bodrum or Strasbourg?

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

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

Choose Strasbourg for

  • getting around
  • culture and sights
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Strasbourg’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, Strasbourg 10: Bodrum leads by 70 points.
Food & drink. Bodrum 60, Strasbourg 66: Strasbourg leads by 6 points.
Culture & sights. Bodrum 45, Strasbourg 70: Strasbourg leads by 25 points.
Nightlife. Bodrum 65, Strasbourg 40: Bodrum leads by 25 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bodrum 60, Strasbourg 62: Strasbourg leads by 2 points.
Day trips. Bodrum 72, Strasbourg 80: Strasbourg leads by 8 points.
Good for families. Bodrum and Strasbourg are level on 66.
Getting around. Bodrum 42, Strasbourg 79: Strasbourg leads by 37 points.
Shopping & style. Bodrum 45, Strasbourg 52: Strasbourg leads by 7 points.
Affordability. Bodrum 38, Strasbourg 44: Strasbourg leads by 6 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bodrum 32, Strasbourg 56: Strasbourg leads by 24 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bodrum 52, Strasbourg 55: Strasbourg leads by 3 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bodrum and Strasbourg.

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 beaches and nightlife with your weighting.

Strasbourg
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

Strasbourg in July

26 °Cdaytime high
15 °Cnight-time low
72 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
No seasea
16 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). Strasbourg: 1991-2020 normals, Strasbourg (9.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBodrumStrasbourg
Official languageTurkishFrench
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation10 m132 m
Main airportMilas Bodrum International Airport (BJV)32 km from centre83 non-stop destinationsStrasbourg Airport (SXB)10 km from centre43 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBodrumStrasbourg
City population175,000293,771
People per km²3143,752
Museums within 10 km421
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
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.