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Main Beach with its palms and lifeguard tower, Laguna Beach
Laguna BeachMain Beach with its palms and lifeguard tower
The harbour seen from above, Marmaris
MarmarisThe harbour seen from above

Photos: Laguna Beach by Mark Stebnicki, Pexels License; Marmaris by Mstyslav Chernov, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Laguna Beach 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 Laguna Beach for

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

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

Choose Marmaris for

  • prices
  • nightlife
  • getting around

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. Laguna Beach 72, Marmaris 80: Marmaris leads by 8 points.
Food & drink. Laguna Beach and Marmaris are level on 40.
Culture & sights. Laguna Beach 27, Marmaris 18: Laguna Beach leads by 9 points.
Nightlife. Laguna Beach 18, Marmaris 60: Marmaris leads by 42 points.
Nature & outdoors. Laguna Beach 73, Marmaris 72: Laguna Beach leads by 1 points.
Day trips. Laguna Beach 72, Marmaris 65: Laguna Beach leads by 7 points.
Good for families. Laguna Beach 68, Marmaris 62: Laguna Beach leads by 6 points.
Getting around. Laguna Beach 33, Marmaris 55: Marmaris leads by 22 points.
Shopping & style. Laguna Beach 46, Marmaris 38: Laguna Beach leads by 8 points.
Affordability. Laguna Beach 12, Marmaris 62: Marmaris leads by 50 points.
Live music & performing arts. Laguna Beach 40, Marmaris 12: Laguna Beach leads by 28 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Laguna Beach 47, Marmaris 50: Marmaris leads by 3 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Laguna Beach and Marmaris.

Your match

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

Laguna Beach
46match

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

Marmaris
Best match
51match

Wins on prices 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.

Laguna Beach in July

28 °Cdaytime high
17 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
20 °Csea
14 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. Laguna Beach: 1981-2010 normals, Irvine (15.5 km from centre). Marmaris: 2000-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Dalaman (48.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLaguna BeachMarmaris
Official language-Turkish
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Turkish Lira (TRY)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-8, UTC-7 in summerUTC+3
Emergency number911112
Elevation6 m7 m
Main airportJohn Wayne Orange County International Airport (SNA)18 km from centre53 non-stop destinationsDalaman International Airport (DLM)49 km from centre61 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureLaguna BeachMarmaris
City population23,03297,818
People per km²907111
Museums within 10 km21
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.