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Colourful shopfronts in the city centre, Cork
CorkColourful shopfronts in the city centre
The harbour seen from above, Marmaris
MarmarisThe harbour seen from above

Photos: Cork by Selim Karadayı, Pexels License; Marmaris by Mstyslav Chernov, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Cork 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 Cork for

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

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

Choose Marmaris for

  • beaches
  • prices
  • wellness

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. Cork 25, Marmaris 80: Marmaris leads by 55 points.
Food & drink. Cork 58, Marmaris 40: Cork leads by 18 points.
Culture & sights. Cork 40, Marmaris 18: Cork leads by 22 points.
Nightlife. Cork 40, Marmaris 60: Marmaris leads by 20 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cork 62, Marmaris 72: Marmaris leads by 10 points.
Day trips. Cork 68, Marmaris 65: Cork leads by 3 points.
Good for families. Cork 50, Marmaris 62: Marmaris leads by 12 points.
Getting around. Cork 58, Marmaris 55: Cork leads by 3 points.
Shopping & style. Cork 40, Marmaris 38: Cork leads by 2 points.
Affordability. Cork 33, Marmaris 62: Marmaris leads by 29 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cork 45, Marmaris 12: Cork leads by 33 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cork 22, Marmaris 50: Marmaris leads by 28 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cork and Marmaris.

Your match

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

Cork
45match

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

Marmaris
Best match
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.

Cork in July

19 °Cdaytime high
12 °Cnight-time low
86 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
16 °Csea
16 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

Cork's station stands 153 m above the city centre, so the centre is likely a little warmer than the figures say.

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. Cork: 1991-2020 normals, Cork Airport (5.6 km from centre). Marmaris: 2000-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Dalaman (48.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCorkMarmaris
Official languageEnglish, IrishTurkish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Turkish Lira (TRY)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+3
Emergency number112112
Elevation0 m7 m
Main airportCork International Airport (ORK)7 km from centre47 non-stop destinationsDalaman International Airport (DLM)49 km from centre61 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureCorkMarmaris
City population222,33397,818
People per km²5,961111
Museums within 10 km51
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone6 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). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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.