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The Campanile, Trinity College, Dublin
DublinThe Campanile, Trinity College
The harbour seen from above, Marmaris
MarmarisThe harbour seen from above

Photos: Dublin by David Kernan, CC BY 4.0, cropped; Marmaris by Mstyslav Chernov, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Dublin 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 Dublin for

  • live music and the arts
  • culture and sights
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Dublin’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. Dublin 27, Marmaris 80: Marmaris leads by 53 points.
Food & drink. Dublin 50, Marmaris 40: Dublin leads by 10 points.
Culture & sights. Dublin 64, Marmaris 18: Dublin leads by 46 points.
Nightlife. Dublin 62, Marmaris 60: Dublin leads by 2 points.
Nature & outdoors. Dublin 70, Marmaris 72: Marmaris leads by 2 points.
Day trips. Dublin 72, Marmaris 65: Dublin leads by 7 points.
Good for families. Dublin 57, Marmaris 62: Marmaris leads by 5 points.
Getting around. Dublin 66, Marmaris 55: Dublin leads by 11 points.
Shopping & style. Dublin 54, Marmaris 38: Dublin leads by 16 points.
Affordability. Dublin 20, Marmaris 62: Marmaris leads by 42 points.
Live music & performing arts. Dublin 65, Marmaris 12: Dublin leads by 53 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Dublin 25, Marmaris 50: Marmaris leads by 25 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Dublin and Marmaris.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Dublin
53match

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.

Dublin in July

20 °Cdaytime high
11 °Cnight-time low
62 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
15 °Csea
17 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

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. Dublin: 1991-2020 normals, Dublin Airport (9.3 km from centre). Marmaris: 2000-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Dalaman (48.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureDublinMarmaris
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
Elevation20 m7 m
Main airportDublin Airport (DUB)9 km from centre200 non-stop destinationsDalaman International Airport (DLM)49 km from centre61 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureDublinMarmaris
City population592,71397,818
People per km²5,154111
Museums within 10 km401
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
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.