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Clearwater Beach in evening light, with its hotels and pier, Clearwater
ClearwaterClearwater Beach in evening light, with its hotels and pier
The harbour seen from above, Marmaris
MarmarisThe harbour seen from above

Photos: Clearwater by ajay_suresh, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Marmaris by Mstyslav Chernov, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Clearwater 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 Clearwater for

  • live music and the arts
  • families
  • beaches

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

Choose Marmaris for

  • getting around
  • prices
  • nightlife

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. Clearwater 90, Marmaris 80: Clearwater leads by 10 points.
Food & drink. Clearwater 38, Marmaris 40: Marmaris leads by 2 points.
Culture & sights. Clearwater and Marmaris are level on 18.
Nightlife. Clearwater 34, Marmaris 60: Marmaris leads by 26 points.
Nature & outdoors. Clearwater 55, Marmaris 72: Marmaris leads by 17 points.
Day trips. Clearwater 58, Marmaris 65: Marmaris leads by 7 points.
Good for families. Clearwater 78, Marmaris 62: Clearwater leads by 16 points.
Getting around. Clearwater 28, Marmaris 55: Marmaris leads by 27 points.
Shopping & style. Clearwater 27, Marmaris 38: Marmaris leads by 11 points.
Affordability. Clearwater 35, Marmaris 62: Marmaris leads by 27 points.
Live music & performing arts. Clearwater 36, Marmaris 12: Clearwater leads by 24 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Clearwater 40, Marmaris 50: Marmaris leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Clearwater and Marmaris.

Your match

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

Clearwater
45match

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

Marmaris
Best match
51match

Wins on getting around 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.

Clearwater in July

32 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
188 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
30 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Marmaris in July

32 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
8 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
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

Clearwater 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.

Clearwater's sunshine is measured 26 km from the centre, at Tampa International Airport.

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. Clearwater: 2006-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Saint Petersburg / High Point (12.7 km from centre). Marmaris: 2000-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Dalaman (48.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureClearwaterMarmaris
Official language-Turkish
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Turkish Lira (TRY)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+3
Emergency number911112
Elevation9 m7 m
Main airportSt. Petersburg Clearwater International Airport (PIE)13 km from centre60 non-stop destinationsDalaman International Airport (DLM)49 km from centre61 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureClearwaterMarmaris
City population117,29297,818
People per km²1,154111
Museums within 10 km41
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C8 months6 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.