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The Johannesburg skyline and the Hillbrow Tower, Johannesburg
JohannesburgThe Johannesburg skyline and the Hillbrow Tower
The harbour seen from above, Marmaris
MarmarisThe harbour seen from above

Photos: Johannesburg by K, Pexels License; Marmaris by Mstyslav Chernov, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Johannesburg 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 Johannesburg for

  • live music and the arts
  • culture and sights
  • shopping

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

Choose Marmaris for

  • beaches
  • getting around
  • 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. Johannesburg 5, Marmaris 80: Marmaris leads by 75 points.
Food & drink. Johannesburg 58, Marmaris 40: Johannesburg leads by 18 points.
Culture & sights. Johannesburg 56, Marmaris 18: Johannesburg leads by 38 points.
Nightlife. Johannesburg 62, Marmaris 60: Johannesburg leads by 2 points.
Nature & outdoors. Johannesburg 55, Marmaris 72: Marmaris leads by 17 points.
Day trips. Johannesburg 52, Marmaris 65: Marmaris leads by 13 points.
Good for families. Johannesburg 42, Marmaris 62: Marmaris leads by 20 points.
Getting around. Johannesburg 18, Marmaris 55: Marmaris leads by 37 points.
Shopping & style. Johannesburg 58, Marmaris 38: Johannesburg leads by 20 points.
Affordability. Johannesburg 72, Marmaris 62: Johannesburg leads by 10 points.
Live music & performing arts. Johannesburg 55, Marmaris 12: Johannesburg leads by 43 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Johannesburg 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: Johannesburg and Marmaris.

Your match

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

Johannesburg
47match

Wins on live music and the arts and culture and sights with your weighting.

Marmaris
Best match
51match

Wins on beaches and getting around with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Johannesburg in July

19 °Cdaytime high
4 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
No seasea
11 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. Johannesburg: 2005-2019 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Johannesburg B / Roosevelt Park (7.3 km from centre). Marmaris: 2000-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Dalaman (48.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureJohannesburgMarmaris
Official languageEnglish, Zulu, Xhosa, Afrikaans, Venda, Northern Sotho, Swazi, Tswana, Tsonga, Sesotho, Southern Ndebele, South African Sign LanguageTurkish
CurrencyRand (ZAR)Turkish Lira (TRY)
SocketsCMN230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+2UTC+3
Emergency number112112
Elevation1,753 m7 m
Main airportO.R. Tambo International Airport (JNB)22 km from centre83 non-stop destinationsDalaman International Airport (DLM)49 km from centre61 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureJohannesburgMarmaris
City population4,803,26297,818
People per km²2,922111
Museums within 10 km141
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Swim season, months above 21 °C-6 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). 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. 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.