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Cardiff Castle, Cardiff
CardiffCardiff Castle
Hot-air balloons over Cappadocia at sunrise, Goreme
GoremeHot-air balloons over Cappadocia at sunrise

Photos: Cardiff by Tevfik Teker, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Goreme by Guerrero De la Luz, Pexels License.

Cardiff or Goreme?

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 Cardiff for

  • live music and the arts
  • nightlife
  • shopping

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

Choose Goreme for

  • wellness
  • prices
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Goreme’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. Cardiff 30, Goreme 3: Cardiff leads by 27 points.
Food & drink. Cardiff 45, Goreme 20: Cardiff leads by 25 points.
Culture & sights. Cardiff 58, Goreme 45: Cardiff leads by 13 points.
Nightlife. Cardiff 50, Goreme 5: Cardiff leads by 45 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cardiff 70, Goreme 74: Goreme leads by 4 points.
Day trips. Cardiff 72, Goreme 70: Cardiff leads by 2 points.
Good for families. Cardiff 58, Goreme 40: Cardiff leads by 18 points.
Getting around. Cardiff 66, Goreme 40: Cardiff leads by 26 points.
Shopping & style. Cardiff 50, Goreme 22: Cardiff leads by 28 points.
Affordability. Cardiff 46, Goreme 58: Goreme leads by 12 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cardiff 57, Goreme 10: Cardiff leads by 47 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cardiff 27, Goreme 42: Goreme leads by 15 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cardiff and Goreme.

Your match

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

Cardiff
Best match
52match

Wins on live music and the arts and nightlife with your weighting.

Goreme
36match

Wins on wellness and prices with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Cardiff in July

20 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
83 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
17 °Csea
16 hdaylight a day

Goreme in July

30 °Cdaytime high
15 °Cnight-time low
13 mmrain in the month
13 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

Cardiff 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.

Cardiff's sunshine is measured 83 km from the centre, at Lyneham.

Goreme's station stands 160 m above the city centre, so the centre is likely a little warmer than the figures say.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Cardiff: 1991-2020 normals, Cardiff-Wales Airport (14.9 km from centre). Goreme: 1991-2020 normals, Nevsehir (10.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCardiffGoreme
Official languageEnglishTurkish
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Turkish Lira (TRY)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+3
Emergency number112 or 999112
Elevation41 m1,100 m
Main airportCardiff International Airport (CWL)15 km from centre30 non-stop destinationsKayseri Erkilet International Airport (ASR)60 km from centre22 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureCardiffGoreme
City population383,5362,000
People per km²2,73420
Museums within 10 km95
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone-

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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). 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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.