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Cloud Gate in Millennium Park, Chicago
ChicagoCloud Gate in Millennium Park
The harbour seen from above, Marmaris
MarmarisThe harbour seen from above

Photos: Chicago by Jesus Toledo, Pexels License; Marmaris by Mstyslav Chernov, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Chicago or Marmaris?

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 Chicago for

  • live music and the arts
  • culture and sights
  • food and drink

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

Choose Marmaris for

  • beaches
  • prices
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Marmaris’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. Chicago 50, Marmaris 80: Marmaris leads by 30 points.
Food & drink. Chicago 80, Marmaris 40: Chicago leads by 40 points.
Culture & sights. Chicago 78, Marmaris 18: Chicago leads by 60 points.
Nightlife. Chicago 77, Marmaris 60: Chicago leads by 17 points.
Nature & outdoors. Chicago 48, Marmaris 72: Marmaris leads by 24 points.
Day trips. Chicago 42, Marmaris 65: Marmaris leads by 23 points.
Good for families. Chicago 78, Marmaris 62: Chicago leads by 16 points.
Getting around. Chicago 72, Marmaris 55: Chicago leads by 17 points.
Shopping & style. Chicago 70, Marmaris 38: Chicago leads by 32 points.
Affordability. Chicago 33, Marmaris 62: Marmaris leads by 29 points.
Live music & performing arts. Chicago 82, Marmaris 12: Chicago leads by 70 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Chicago 33, Marmaris 50: Marmaris leads by 17 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Chicago and Marmaris.

Your match

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

Chicago
Best match
62match

Wins on live music and the arts and culture and sights with your weighting.

Marmaris
51match

Wins on beaches 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.

Chicago in July

29 °Cdaytime high
20 °Cnight-time low
102 mmrain in the month
21 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Marmaris in July

32 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
8 mmrain in the month
25 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Marmaris's temperatures are measured 49 km from the centre, at Dalaman.

Marmaris 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. Chicago: 1991-2020 normals, Chicago Midway Airport (14.5 km from centre). Marmaris: 2000-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Dalaman (48.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureChicagoMarmaris
Official language-Turkish
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Turkish Lira (TRY)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6, UTC-5 in summerUTC+3
Emergency number911112
Elevation179 m7 m
Main airportChicago O'Hare International Airport (ORD)25 km from centre274 non-stop destinationsDalaman International Airport (DLM)49 km from centre61 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureChicagoMarmaris
City population2,746,38897,818
People per km²4,529111
Museums within 10 km441
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Swim season, months above 21 °C1 month6 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). 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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.