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Bodrum Castle and gulets in the harbour, Bodrum
BodrumBodrum Castle and gulets in the harbour
The Basilica of Saint-Sernin, Toulouse
ToulouseThe Basilica of Saint-Sernin

Photos: Bodrum by Serhio Magpie, CC BY 4.0, cropped; Toulouse by ZbebVial, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Bodrum or Toulouse?

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
  • nightlife

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

Choose Toulouse for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Toulouse’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, Toulouse 10: Bodrum leads by 70 points.
Food & drink. Bodrum 60, Toulouse 66: Toulouse leads by 6 points.
Culture & sights. Bodrum 45, Toulouse 64: Toulouse leads by 19 points.
Nightlife. Bodrum 65, Toulouse 56: Bodrum leads by 9 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bodrum 60, Toulouse 58: Bodrum leads by 2 points.
Day trips. Bodrum and Toulouse are level on 72.
Good for families. Bodrum 66, Toulouse 62: Bodrum leads by 4 points.
Getting around. Bodrum 42, Toulouse 70: Toulouse leads by 28 points.
Shopping & style. Bodrum 45, Toulouse 50: Toulouse leads by 5 points.
Affordability. Bodrum 38, Toulouse 46: Toulouse leads by 8 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bodrum 32, Toulouse 58: Toulouse leads by 26 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bodrum 52, Toulouse 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 Toulouse.

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 wellness with your weighting.

Toulouse
53match

Wins on getting around and live music and the arts 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

Toulouse in July

28 °Cdaytime high
17 °Cnight-time low
40 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
No seasea
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). Toulouse: 1991-2020 normals, Toulouse / Blagnac (7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBodrumToulouse
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 m115 m
Main airportMilas Bodrum International Airport (BJV)32 km from centre83 non-stop destinationsToulouse-Blagnac Airport (TLS)7 km from centre84 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBodrumToulouse
City population175,000514,819
People per km²3144,352
Museums within 10 km424
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
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.