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The junk Duk Ling in Victoria Harbour, Hong Kong
Hong KongThe junk Duk Ling in Victoria Harbour
The harbour seen from above, Marmaris
MarmarisThe harbour seen from above

Photos: Hong Kong by LN9267, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Marmaris by Mstyslav Chernov, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Hong Kong 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 Hong Kong for

  • food and drink
  • shopping
  • live music and the arts

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

Choose Marmaris for

  • prices
  • beaches
  • 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. Hong Kong 50, Marmaris 80: Marmaris leads by 30 points.
Food & drink. Hong Kong 90, Marmaris 40: Hong Kong leads by 50 points.
Culture & sights. Hong Kong 60, Marmaris 18: Hong Kong leads by 42 points.
Nightlife. Hong Kong 68, Marmaris 60: Hong Kong leads by 8 points.
Nature & outdoors. Hong Kong 80, Marmaris 72: Hong Kong leads by 8 points.
Day trips. Hong Kong 68, Marmaris 65: Hong Kong leads by 3 points.
Good for families. Hong Kong 75, Marmaris 62: Hong Kong leads by 13 points.
Getting around. Hong Kong 97, Marmaris 55: Hong Kong leads by 42 points.
Shopping & style. Hong Kong 88, Marmaris 38: Hong Kong leads by 50 points.
Affordability. Hong Kong 27, Marmaris 62: Marmaris leads by 35 points.
Live music & performing arts. Hong Kong 55, Marmaris 12: Hong Kong leads by 43 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Hong Kong 42, Marmaris 50: Marmaris leads by 8 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Hong Kong and Marmaris.

Your match

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

Hong Kong
Best match
67match

Wins on food and drink and shopping with your weighting.

Marmaris
51match

Wins on prices and beaches with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Hong Kong in July

31 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
381 mmrain in the month
7 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. Hong Kong: 1991-2020 normals, King's Park (4.4 km from centre). Marmaris: 2000-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Dalaman (48.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureHong KongMarmaris
Official languageStandard ChineseTurkish
CurrencyHong Kong Dollar (HKD)Turkish Lira (TRY)
SocketsG220 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+8UTC+3
Emergency number999112
Elevation7 m7 m
Main airportHong Kong International Airport (HKG)25 km from centre148 non-stop destinationsDalaman International Airport (DLM)49 km from centre61 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureHong KongMarmaris
City population7,413,07097,818
People per km²-111
Museums within 10 km391
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C8 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.