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The red five-storey pagoda of Tocho-ji, Fukuoka
FukuokaThe red five-storey pagoda of Tocho-ji
The harbour seen from above, Marmaris
MarmarisThe harbour seen from above

Photos: Fukuoka by Nick-D, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Marmaris by Mstyslav Chernov, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Fukuoka 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 Fukuoka for

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

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

Choose Marmaris for

  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors
  • prices

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. Fukuoka 50, Marmaris 80: Marmaris leads by 30 points.
Food & drink. Fukuoka 82, Marmaris 40: Fukuoka leads by 42 points.
Culture & sights. Fukuoka 50, Marmaris 18: Fukuoka leads by 32 points.
Nightlife. Fukuoka and Marmaris are level on 60.
Nature & outdoors. Fukuoka 62, Marmaris 72: Marmaris leads by 10 points.
Day trips. Fukuoka 84, Marmaris 65: Fukuoka leads by 19 points.
Good for families. Fukuoka 78, Marmaris 62: Fukuoka leads by 16 points.
Getting around. Fukuoka 82, Marmaris 55: Fukuoka leads by 27 points.
Shopping & style. Fukuoka 65, Marmaris 38: Fukuoka leads by 27 points.
Affordability. Fukuoka 58, Marmaris 62: Marmaris leads by 4 points.
Live music & performing arts. Fukuoka 45, Marmaris 12: Fukuoka leads by 33 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Fukuoka 60, Marmaris 50: Fukuoka leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Fukuoka and Marmaris.

Your match

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

Fukuoka
Best match
65match

Wins on food and drink and live music and the arts with your weighting.

Marmaris
51match

Wins on beaches and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Fukuoka in July

31 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
301 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
24 °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

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. Fukuoka: 1991-2020 normals, Fukuoka (1.9 km from centre). Marmaris: 2000-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Dalaman (48.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureFukuokaMarmaris
Official languageJapaneseTurkish
CurrencyYen (JPY)Turkish Lira (TRY)
SocketsAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the regionCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+9UTC+3
Emergency numberPolice 110, fire 119112
Elevation8 m7 m
Main airportFukuoka Airport (FUK)5 km from centre46 non-stop destinationsDalaman International Airport (DLM)49 km from centre61 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureFukuokaMarmaris
City population1,603,04397,818
People per km²4,715111
Museums within 10 km231
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 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.