VacationSelector

Bodrum or Zadar?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Bodrum
46
match

Wins on places to eat and nightlife with your weighting.

Zadar
47
match

Wins on nature & day trips and museums & heritage 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.

BodrumZadar
Beaches & swimming. Bodrum leads by 4 points.4
BodrumZadar
Score7773
Swim season months54
Beaches 10 km3049
Coast distance0 km0 km
Water distance0 km0 km
Places to eat. Bodrum leads by 25 points.25
BodrumZadar
Score5025
Restaurants within 2 km of centre444143
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2011
Museums & heritage. Zadar leads by 13 points.13
BodrumZadar
Score2033
Museums within 10 km58
Museums within 2 km of centre48
Share of museums within 2 km %80100
Unesco sites within 50 km02
Nightlife. Bodrum leads by 20 points.20
BodrumZadar
Score4525
Drinking venues within 4 km418194
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre334139
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8072
Nightclubs within 4 km604
Nature & day trips. Zadar leads by 36 points.36
BodrumZadar
Score1955
Protected land share 50 km %512
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %3547
Park area within 2 km3 hectares30 hectares
Good for families. Zadar leads by 9 points.9
BodrumZadar
Score2231
Tourist attractions within 2 km159
Park area within 2 km3 hectares30 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Zadar leads by 13 points.13
BodrumZadar
Score1831
Notable places within 2 km1123
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bodrum leads by 9 points.9
BodrumZadar
Score8980
Price level global35.248.5
Daily budget€100€138
Year-round weather. Bodrum leads by 8 points.8
BodrumZadar
Score7769
Monthly daytime high13.8 °C to 31.2 °C10.4 °C to 31 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 147 mm25 mm to 117 mm
Dry months52
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
Zadar
10
11
15
19
23
28
31
31
26
21
16
12
Sea temperature, °C
Bodrum
17
16
16
17
19
22
24
25
24
22
20
19
Zadar
14
13
13
14
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
Rainfall, mm
Bodrum
140
96
71
51
25
3
0
0
12
42
103
147
Zadar
73
64
59
62
58
49
25
32
82
80
117
99
Daylight, hours per day
Bodrum
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
13
11
10
10
Zadar
9
10
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9

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). Zadar: 1999-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Zadar / Zemunik (9.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBodrumZadar
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 10 m
€50-55
BJV · 32 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
SPU · 107 km
AmsterdamAMS
3 h 35 m
€229-250
1 stop
BJV · 32 km
2 h 10 m
€186-201
1 stop
SPU · 107 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 50 m
€149-173
1 stop
BJV · 32 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
ZAD · 10 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 20 m
no fares
KGS · 40 km
1 h 5 m
€294
SPU · 107 km
AthensATH
1 h 0 m
no fares
KGS · 40 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
SPU · 107 km
MunichMUC
2 h 45 m
€197-226
1 stop
BJV · 32 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
SPU · 107 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
3 h 35 m
no fares
RHO · 91 km
2 h 5 m
€169-225
SPU · 107 km
ViennaVIE
2 h 25 m
no fares
KGS · 40 km
1 h 10 m
€45-192
ZAD · 10 km
ManchesterMAN
4 h 5 m
no fares
BJV · 32 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
SPU · 107 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 50 m
no fares
KGS · 40 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
ZAD · 10 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

MeasureBodrumZadar
Official languageTurkishCroatian
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 m5 m
Main airportMilas Bodrum International Airport (BJV)32 km from centre82 non-stop destinationsZadar Airport (ZAD)10 km from centre67 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureBodrumZadar
City population175,00070,779
People per km²314
Museums within 10 km41
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Distinct cuisines in the centre3017
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months4 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.