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The Basilica of Notre-Dame de Fourvière, Lyon
LyonThe Basilica of Notre-Dame de Fourvière
The harbour seen from above, Marmaris
MarmarisThe harbour seen from above

Photos: Lyon by Dennis G. Jarvis, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Marmaris by Mstyslav Chernov, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Lyon 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 Lyon for

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

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

Choose Marmaris for

  • beaches
  • prices
  • 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. Lyon 12, Marmaris 80: Marmaris leads by 68 points.
Food & drink. Lyon 84, Marmaris 40: Lyon leads by 44 points.
Culture & sights. Lyon 77, Marmaris 18: Lyon leads by 59 points.
Nightlife. Lyon 58, Marmaris 60: Marmaris leads by 2 points.
Nature & outdoors. Lyon 64, Marmaris 72: Marmaris leads by 8 points.
Day trips. Lyon 77, Marmaris 65: Lyon leads by 12 points.
Good for families. Lyon and Marmaris are level on 62.
Getting around. Lyon 77, Marmaris 55: Lyon leads by 22 points.
Shopping & style. Lyon 58, Marmaris 38: Lyon leads by 20 points.
Affordability. Lyon 42, Marmaris 62: Marmaris leads by 20 points.
Live music & performing arts. Lyon 68, Marmaris 12: Lyon leads by 56 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Lyon 40, Marmaris 50: Marmaris leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Lyon and Marmaris.

Your match

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

Lyon
Best match
60match

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

Marmaris
51match

Wins on beaches and prices with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Lyon in July

28 °Cdaytime high
17 °Cnight-time low
66 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
No seasea
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. Lyon: 1991-2020 normals, Lyon / Bron (10.6 km from centre). Marmaris: 2000-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Dalaman (48.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLyonMarmaris
Official languageFrenchTurkish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Turkish Lira (TRY)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+3
Emergency number112112
Elevation160 m7 m
Main airportLyon Saint-Exupéry Airport (LYS)20 km from centre141 non-stop destinationsDalaman International Airport (DLM)49 km from centre61 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureLyonMarmaris
City population519,12797,818
People per km²10,838111
Museums within 10 km431
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). 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.