VacationSelector

Bodrum or Thessaloniki?

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.

Thessaloniki
✓ Best match
59
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.

BodrumThessaloniki
Beaches & swimming. Bodrum leads by 22 points.22
BodrumThessaloniki
Score7755
Swim season months55
Beaches 10 km304
Coast distance0 km0 km
Water distance0 km0 km
Places to eat. Bodrum and Thessaloniki are level on 50.
BodrumThessaloniki
Score5050
Restaurants within 2 km of centre444640
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2015
Museums & heritage. Thessaloniki leads by 29 points.29
BodrumThessaloniki
Score2049
Museums within 10 km534
Museums within 2 km of centre422
Share of museums within 2 km %8065
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Thessaloniki leads by 22 points.22
BodrumThessaloniki
Score4567
Drinking venues within 4 km4181,407
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre334805
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8057
Nightclubs within 4 km6061
Nature & day trips. Thessaloniki leads by 46 points.46
BodrumThessaloniki
Score1965
Protected land share 50 km %525
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %3583
Park area within 2 km3 hectares39 hectares
Good for families. Thessaloniki leads by 19 points.19
BodrumThessaloniki
Score2241
Tourist attractions within 2 km1516
Park area within 2 km3 hectares39 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Thessaloniki leads by 38 points.38
BodrumThessaloniki
Score1856
Notable places within 2 km1198
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bodrum leads by 15 points.15
BodrumThessaloniki
Score8974
Price level global35.255.8
Daily budget€100€125
Year-round weather. Bodrum leads by 5 points.5
BodrumThessaloniki
Score7772
Monthly daytime high13.8 °C to 31.2 °C9.7 °C to 32.1 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 147 mm21 mm to 56 mm
Dry months59
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
Thessaloniki
10
11
15
19
25
30
32
32
27
21
16
11
Sea temperature, °C
Bodrum
17
16
16
17
19
22
24
25
24
22
20
19
Thessaloniki
14
13
13
15
19
23
26
27
25
21
18
15
Rainfall, mm
Bodrum
140
96
71
51
25
3
0
0
12
42
103
147
Thessaloniki
35
32
38
36
44
30
23
21
33
41
38
56
Daylight, hours per day
Bodrum
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
13
11
10
10
Thessaloniki
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Bodrum
No sunshine record
Thessaloniki
4
4
6
6
9
11
11
10
8
6
4
3

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). Thessaloniki: 1991-2020 normals, Thessaloniki Airport (14 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBodrumThessaloniki
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 10 m
€50-55
BJV · 32 km
1 h 15 m
€151-156
SKG · 14 km
AthensATH
1 h 0 m
no fares
KGS · 40 km
1 h 0 m
€97-118
SKG · 14 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 50 m
€149-173
1 stop
BJV · 32 km
3 h 15 m
€95-156
SKG · 14 km
DusseldorfDUS, NRN
3 h 20 m
€193-226
1 stop
BJV · 32 km
2 h 40 m
€127-199
1 stop
SKG · 14 km
MunichMUC
2 h 45 m
€197-226
1 stop
BJV · 32 km
2 h 10 m
€188-242
1 stop
SKG · 14 km
StuttgartSTR
3 h 0 m
no fares
KGS · 40 km
2 h 20 m
€217
SKG · 14 km
HeraklionHER
55 m
no fares
KGS · 40 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
SKG · 14 km
ViennaVIE
2 h 25 m
no fares
KGS · 40 km
1 h 50 m
€125-175
1 stop
SKG · 14 km
LarnacaLCA
1 h 15 m
no fares
RHO · 91 km
2 h 0 m
€105-145
SKG · 14 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
1 h 45 m
no fares
KGS · 40 km
2 h 20 m
€208-315
1 stop
SKG · 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

MeasureBodrumThessaloniki
Official languageTurkishGreek
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation10 m6 m
Main airportMilas Bodrum International Airport (BJV)32 km from centre82 non-stop destinationsThessaloniki Macedonia International Airport (SKG)14 km from centre88 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureBodrumThessaloniki
City population175,000309,617
People per km²31416,042
Museums within 10 km431
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre3045
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months5 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.