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The Old Town Clock on Citadel Hill, Halifax
HalifaxThe Old Town Clock on Citadel Hill
The harbour seen from above, Marmaris
MarmarisThe harbour seen from above

Photos: Halifax by Danieljmacdonald, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Marmaris by Mstyslav Chernov, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Halifax 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 Halifax for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Halifax’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. Halifax 32, Marmaris 80: Marmaris leads by 48 points.
Food & drink. Halifax 50, Marmaris 40: Halifax leads by 10 points.
Culture & sights. Halifax 42, Marmaris 18: Halifax leads by 24 points.
Nightlife. Halifax 46, Marmaris 60: Marmaris leads by 14 points.
Nature & outdoors. Halifax 62, Marmaris 72: Marmaris leads by 10 points.
Day trips. Halifax 63, Marmaris 65: Marmaris leads by 2 points.
Good for families. Halifax 55, Marmaris 62: Marmaris leads by 7 points.
Getting around. Halifax 48, Marmaris 55: Marmaris leads by 7 points.
Shopping & style. Halifax 35, Marmaris 38: Marmaris leads by 3 points.
Affordability. Halifax 38, Marmaris 62: Marmaris leads by 24 points.
Live music & performing arts. Halifax 46, Marmaris 12: Halifax leads by 34 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Halifax 28, Marmaris 50: Marmaris leads by 22 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Halifax and Marmaris.

Your match

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

Halifax
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.

Halifax in July

22 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
101 mmrain in the month
14 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Marmaris in July

32 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
8 mmrain in the month
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. Halifax: 1991-2020 normals, Shearwater Airport (6 km from centre). Marmaris: 2000-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Dalaman (48.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureHalifaxMarmaris
Official languageFrench, EnglishTurkish
CurrencyCanadian Dollar (CAD)Turkish Lira (TRY)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-4, UTC-3 in summerUTC+3
Emergency number911112
Elevation28 m7 m
Main airportHalifax / Stanfield International Airport (YHZ)26 km from centre40 non-stop destinationsDalaman International Airport (DLM)49 km from centre61 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureHalifaxMarmaris
City population440,07297,818
People per km²80111
Museums within 10 km151
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). 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.