VacationSelector

Cardiff or Goreme?

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

Your match

Cardiff
✓ Best match
48
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and sights concentration with your weighting.

Goreme
32
match

Wins on value for money and good for families 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.

CardiffGoreme
Beaches & swimming. Cardiff leads by 46 points.46
CardiffGoreme
Score460
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km80
Coast distance2 km205 km
Water distance2 km—
Places to eat. Cardiff leads by 30 points.30
CardiffGoreme
Score6030
Restaurants within 2 km of centre541100
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3221
Museums & heritage. Cardiff leads by 27 points.27
CardiffGoreme
Score3912
Museums within 10 km6110
Museums within 2 km of centre61
Share of museums within 2 km %1010
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Cardiff leads by 36 points.36
CardiffGoreme
Score4812
Drinking venues within 4 km53699
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre39558
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7459
Nightclubs within 4 km352
Nature & day trips. Cardiff leads by 24 points.24
CardiffGoreme
Score5026
Protected land share 50 km %1811
Landscape blanket share 50 km %1510
Land share of disc %68100
Park area within 2 km88 hectares—
Good for families. Goreme leads by 20 points.20
CardiffGoreme
Score3252
Tourist attractions within 2 km451
Park area within 2 km88 hectares—
Theme parks within 30 km20
Sights concentration. Cardiff leads by 45 points.45
CardiffGoreme
Score450
Notable places within 2 km512
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Goreme leads by 35 points.35
CardiffGoreme
Score5489
Price level global84.935.2
Daily budget—€100
Year-round weather. Goreme leads by 13 points.13
CardiffGoreme
Score5467
Monthly daytime high7.7 °C to 20.2 °C4.6 °C to 29.8 °C
Monthly rainfall49 mm to 87 mm7 mm to 59 mm
Dry months05
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
Cardiff
8
8
10
13
16
18
20
20
18
14
11
9
Goreme
5
7
12
16
22
26
30
30
25
20
12
7
Sea temperature, °C
Cardiff
8
7
8
9
12
15
17
18
17
15
12
9
Goreme
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Cardiff
77
55
49
54
56
56
61
66
54
87
83
79
Goreme
54
42
53
42
59
53
13
7
15
30
32
48
Daylight, hours per day
Cardiff
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Goreme
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Cardiff
2
3
4
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2
Goreme
3
4
5
7
9
11
13
12
9
7
5
3

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year 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).

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Getting there

Flying fromCardiffGoreme
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 45 m
no fares
BHX · 146 km
1 h 20 m
€84-89
NAV · 29 km
AntalyaAYT
4 h 20 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
1 h 15 m
€98-131
ASR · 60 km
DusseldorfDUS, NRN
1 h 20 m
no fares
BHX · 146 km
3 h 45 m
no fares
ASR · 60 km
IzmirADB
3 h 55 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
ASR · 60 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 20 m
no fares
CWL · 15 km
3 h 55 m
€230-246
1 stop
ASR · 60 km
CologneCGN
1 h 25 m
no fares
BHX · 146 km
3 h 45 m
no fares
ASR · 60 km
GenevaGVA
1 h 40 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
3 h 40 m
no fares
ASR · 60 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 35 m
no fares
BHX · 146 km
3 h 35 m
no fares
ASR · 60 km
PraguePRG
2 h 5 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
3 h 10 m
no fares
ASR · 60 km
MunichMUC
1 h 55 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
3 h 15 m
no fares
ASR · 60 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

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 centre8 non-stop destinationsKayseri Erkilet International Airport (ASR)60 km from centre21 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
Distinct cuisines in the centre5538
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone–

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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). 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. 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.