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Bodrum Castle and gulets in the harbour, Bodrum
BodrumBodrum Castle and gulets in the harbour
The Great Mosque with the mountains behind, Tirana
TiranaThe Great Mosque with the mountains behind

Photos: Bodrum by Serhio Magpie, CC BY 4.0, cropped; Tirana by Bjørn Christian Tørrissen, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Bodrum or Tirana?

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
  • families
  • wellness

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

Choose Tirana for

  • prices
  • getting around
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Tirana’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, Tirana 46: Bodrum leads by 34 points.
Food & drink. Bodrum 60, Tirana 57: Bodrum leads by 3 points.
Culture & sights. Bodrum 45, Tirana 42: Bodrum leads by 3 points.
Nightlife. Bodrum 65, Tirana 58: Bodrum leads by 7 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bodrum 60, Tirana 62: Tirana leads by 2 points.
Day trips. Bodrum 72, Tirana 64: Bodrum leads by 8 points.
Good for families. Bodrum 66, Tirana 40: Bodrum leads by 26 points.
Getting around. Bodrum 42, Tirana 54: Tirana leads by 12 points.
Shopping & style. Bodrum 45, Tirana 32: Bodrum leads by 13 points.
Affordability. Bodrum 38, Tirana 76: Tirana leads by 38 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bodrum and Tirana are level on 32.
Wellness & relaxation. Bodrum 52, Tirana 27: Bodrum leads by 25 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bodrum and Tirana.

Your match

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

Bodrum
Best match
55match

Wins on beaches and families with your weighting.

Tirana
49match

Wins on prices and getting around 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

Tirana in July

31 °Cdaytime high
17 °Cnight-time low
43 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). Tirana: 1961-1990 normals, Tirana (3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBodrumTirana
Official languageTurkishAlbanian
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Lek (ALL)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation10 m110 m
Main airportMilas Bodrum International Airport (BJV)32 km from centre83 non-stop destinationsTirana International Airport Mother Teresa (TIA)13 km from centre121 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureBodrumTirana
City population175,000389,323
People per km²3149,314
Museums within 10 km411
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months5 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.