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The Japanese Covered Bridge, Hoi An
Hoi AnThe Japanese Covered Bridge
The harbour seen from above, Marmaris
MarmarisThe harbour seen from above

Photos: Hoi An by François Guerraz, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Marmaris by Mstyslav Chernov, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Hoi An 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 Hoi An for

  • culture and sights
  • food and drink
  • prices

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

Choose Marmaris for

  • nightlife
  • day trips
  • nature and the outdoors

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. Hoi An 72, Marmaris 80: Marmaris leads by 8 points.
Food & drink. Hoi An 68, Marmaris 40: Hoi An leads by 28 points.
Culture & sights. Hoi An 66, Marmaris 18: Hoi An leads by 48 points.
Nightlife. Hoi An 28, Marmaris 60: Marmaris leads by 32 points.
Nature & outdoors. Hoi An 63, Marmaris 72: Marmaris leads by 9 points.
Day trips. Hoi An 50, Marmaris 65: Marmaris leads by 15 points.
Good for families. Hoi An 58, Marmaris 62: Marmaris leads by 4 points.
Getting around. Hoi An 48, Marmaris 55: Marmaris leads by 7 points.
Shopping & style. Hoi An 57, Marmaris 38: Hoi An leads by 19 points.
Affordability. Hoi An 88, Marmaris 62: Hoi An leads by 26 points.
Live music & performing arts. Hoi An 24, Marmaris 12: Hoi An leads by 12 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Hoi An 65, Marmaris 50: Hoi An leads by 15 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Hoi An and Marmaris.

Your match

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

Hoi An
Best match
57match

Wins on culture and sights and food and drink with your weighting.

Marmaris
51match

Wins on nightlife and day trips with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Hoi An in July

35 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
83 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
29 °Csea
13 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. Hoi An: 1991-2020 normals, Da Nang (23.5 km from centre). Marmaris: 2000-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Dalaman (48.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureHoi AnMarmaris
Official languageVietnameseTurkish
CurrencyDong (VND)Turkish Lira (TRY)
SocketsACFG220 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+7UTC+3
Emergency numberPolice 113, ambulance 115, fire 114112
Elevation13 m7 m
Main airportDa Nang International Airport (DAD)23 km from centre47 non-stop destinationsDalaman International Airport (DLM)49 km from centre61 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-14 days

By the numbers

MeasureHoi AnMarmaris
City population121,71697,818
People per km²-111
Museums within 10 km51
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 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). 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. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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.