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Hot-air balloons over Cappadocia at sunrise, Goreme
GoremeHot-air balloons over Cappadocia at sunrise
Painted wooden houses under palms in Key West, Key West
Key WestPainted wooden houses under palms in Key West

Photos: Goreme by Guerrero De la Luz, Pexels License; Key West by Dominik Gryzbon, Pexels License.

Goreme or Key West?

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 Goreme for

  • prices
  • day trips
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Key West for

  • beaches
  • nightlife
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Key West’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. Goreme 3, Key West 60: Key West leads by 57 points.
Food & drink. Goreme 20, Key West 45: Key West leads by 25 points.
Culture & sights. Goreme 45, Key West 40: Goreme leads by 5 points.
Nightlife. Goreme 5, Key West 62: Key West leads by 57 points.
Nature & outdoors. Goreme 74, Key West 62: Goreme leads by 12 points.
Day trips. Goreme 70, Key West 28: Goreme leads by 42 points.
Good for families. Goreme and Key West are level on 40.
Getting around. Goreme 40, Key West 62: Key West leads by 22 points.
Shopping & style. Goreme 22, Key West 30: Key West leads by 8 points.
Affordability. Goreme 58, Key West 15: Goreme leads by 43 points.
Live music & performing arts. Goreme 10, Key West 38: Key West leads by 28 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Goreme 42, Key West 40: Goreme leads by 2 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Goreme and Key West.

Your match

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

Goreme
36match

Wins on prices and day trips with your weighting.

Key West
Best match
44match

Wins on beaches and nightlife with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Goreme in July

30 °Cdaytime high
15 °Cnight-time low
13 mmrain in the month
13 hsunshine a day
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Key West in July

32 °Cdaytime high
27 °Cnight-time low
84 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
30 °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

Goreme's station stands 160 m above the city centre, so the centre is likely a little warmer than the figures say.

Key West's temperatures are measured 69 km from the centre, at Key West Airport.

Key West 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. Goreme: 1991-2020 normals, Nevsehir (10.2 km from centre). Key West: 1991-2020 normals, Key West Airport (69.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureGoremeKey West
Official languageTurkish-
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation1,100 m4 m
Main airportKayseri Erkilet International Airport (ASR)60 km from centre22 non-stop destinationsKey West International Airport (EYW)2 km from centre24 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureGoremeKey West
City population2,00026,444
People per km²201,407
Museums within 10 km57
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °C-12 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. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.