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A yellow tram in a narrow street, Lisbon
LisbonA yellow tram in a narrow street
The harbour seen from above, Marmaris
MarmarisThe harbour seen from above

Photos: Lisbon by Riccardo Toso, Pexels License; Marmaris by Mstyslav Chernov, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Lisbon 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 Lisbon for

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

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

Choose Marmaris for

  • beaches
  • wellness
  • prices

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. Lisbon 50, Marmaris 80: Marmaris leads by 30 points.
Food & drink. Lisbon 75, Marmaris 40: Lisbon leads by 35 points.
Culture & sights. Lisbon 78, Marmaris 18: Lisbon leads by 60 points.
Nightlife. Lisbon 75, Marmaris 60: Lisbon leads by 15 points.
Nature & outdoors. Lisbon 75, Marmaris 72: Lisbon leads by 3 points.
Day trips. Lisbon 82, Marmaris 65: Lisbon leads by 17 points.
Good for families. Lisbon and Marmaris are level on 62.
Getting around. Lisbon 66, Marmaris 55: Lisbon leads by 11 points.
Shopping & style. Lisbon 60, Marmaris 38: Lisbon leads by 22 points.
Affordability. Lisbon 55, Marmaris 62: Marmaris leads by 7 points.
Live music & performing arts. Lisbon 60, Marmaris 12: Lisbon leads by 48 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Lisbon 36, Marmaris 50: Marmaris leads by 14 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Lisbon and Marmaris.

Your match

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

Lisbon
Best match
65match

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

Marmaris
51match

Wins on beaches and wellness with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Lisbon in July

28 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
3 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
18 °Csea
15 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. Lisbon: 1991-2020 normals, Lisboa / Geof (1.1 km from centre). Marmaris: 2000-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Dalaman (48.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLisbonMarmaris
Official languagePortugueseTurkish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Turkish Lira (TRY)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+3
Emergency number112112
Elevation100 m7 m
Main airportLisbon Humberto Delgado Airport (LIS)7 km from centre156 non-stop destinationsDalaman International Airport (DLM)49 km from centre61 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureLisbonMarmaris
City population545,79697,818
People per km²5,453111
Museums within 10 km801
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km31
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone6 months

Where else could you go?

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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). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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. 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.