VacationSelector

Bodrum or Valencia?

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 value for money and beaches & swimming with your weighting.

Valencia
✓ Best match
64
match

Wins on museums & heritage and nature & day trips 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.

BodrumValencia
Beaches & swimming. Bodrum leads by 10 points.10
BodrumValencia
Score7767
Swim season months55
Beaches 10 km3012
Coast distance0 km3 km
Water distance0 km3 km
Places to eat. Valencia leads by 28 points.28
BodrumValencia
Score5078
Restaurants within 2 km of centre4441,995
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2033
Museums & heritage. Valencia leads by 35 points.35
BodrumValencia
Score2055
Museums within 10 km559
Museums within 2 km of centre426
Share of museums within 2 km %8044
Unesco sites within 50 km02
Nightlife. Valencia leads by 25 points.25
BodrumValencia
Score4570
Drinking venues within 4 km4181,513
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre334957
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8063
Nightclubs within 4 km60108
Nature & day trips. Valencia leads by 34 points.34
BodrumValencia
Score1953
Protected land share 50 km %510
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %3564
Park area within 2 km3 hectares119 hectares
Good for families. Valencia leads by 20 points.20
BodrumValencia
Score2242
Tourist attractions within 2 km1512
Park area within 2 km3 hectares119 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Valencia leads by 34 points.34
BodrumValencia
Score1852
Notable places within 2 km1178
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bodrum leads by 18 points.18
BodrumValencia
Score8971
Price level global35.260.8
Daily budget€100€122
Year-round weather. Valencia leads by 7 points.7
BodrumValencia
Score7784
Monthly daytime high13.8 °C to 31.2 °C16.8 °C to 30.6 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 147 mm7 mm to 70 mm
Dry months58
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
Valencia
17
17
19
21
24
28
30
31
28
25
20
17
Sea temperature, °C
Bodrum
17
16
16
17
19
22
24
25
24
22
20
19
Valencia
14
14
14
16
18
22
25
26
25
22
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Bodrum
140
96
71
51
25
3
0
0
12
42
103
147
Valencia
38
30
40
33
36
26
7
15
70
66
52
48
Daylight, hours per day
Bodrum
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
13
11
10
10
Valencia
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Bodrum
No sunshine record
Valencia
6
6
7
8
9
9
10
10
8
7
6
5

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). Valencia: 1991-2020 normals, Valencia (1.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBodrumValencia
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 10 m
€50-55
BJV · 32 km
3 h 35 m
€167-378
VLC · 9 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 50 m
€149-173
1 stop
BJV · 32 km
2 h 15 m
€80-167
VLC · 9 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
3 h 35 m
no fares
RHO · 91 km
1 h 55 m
€103-131
VLC · 9 km
AmsterdamAMS
3 h 35 m
€229-250
1 stop
BJV · 32 km
2 h 25 m
€155-178
VLC · 9 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 50 m
no fares
KGS · 40 km
1 h 50 m
€51-87
VLC · 9 km
AthensATH
1 h 0 m
no fares
KGS · 40 km
3 h 10 m
no fares
VLC · 9 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
3 h 30 m
€190-240
1 stop
BJV · 32 km
2 h 15 m
€110-139
VLC · 9 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 20 m
no fares
KGS · 40 km
2 h 0 m
€70-117
VLC · 9 km
ZurichZRH
2 h 55 m
no fares
KGS · 40 km
2 h 0 m
€151-206
1 stop
VLC · 9 km
MadridMAD
3 h 45 m
no fares
ADB · 142 km
1 h 0 m
€69-81
VLC · 9 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

MeasureBodrumValencia
Official languageTurkishSpanish
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 m15 m
Main airportMilas Bodrum International Airport (BJV)32 km from centre82 non-stop destinationsValencia Airport (VLC)9 km from centre107 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBodrumValencia
City population175,000840,792
People per km²3146,242
Museums within 10 km446
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Distinct cuisines in the centre3092
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.