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The railway viaduct over the canal, Castlefield, Manchester
ManchesterThe railway viaduct over the canal, Castlefield
The harbour seen from above, Marmaris
MarmarisThe harbour seen from above

Photos: Manchester by IIya Kuzhekin, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Marmaris by Mstyslav Chernov, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Manchester 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 Manchester for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Manchester’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. Manchester 9, Marmaris 80: Marmaris leads by 71 points.
Food & drink. Manchester 51, Marmaris 40: Manchester leads by 11 points.
Culture & sights. Manchester 50, Marmaris 18: Manchester leads by 32 points.
Nightlife. Manchester 72, Marmaris 60: Manchester leads by 12 points.
Nature & outdoors. Manchester 64, Marmaris 72: Marmaris leads by 8 points.
Day trips. Manchester 77, Marmaris 65: Manchester leads by 12 points.
Good for families. Manchester 58, Marmaris 62: Marmaris leads by 4 points.
Getting around. Manchester 68, Marmaris 55: Manchester leads by 13 points.
Shopping & style. Manchester 62, Marmaris 38: Manchester leads by 24 points.
Affordability. Manchester 42, Marmaris 62: Marmaris leads by 20 points.
Live music & performing arts. Manchester 74, Marmaris 12: Manchester leads by 62 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Manchester 15, Marmaris 50: Marmaris leads by 35 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Manchester and Marmaris.

Your match

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

Manchester
Best match
54match

Wins on live music and the arts and culture and sights 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.

Manchester in July

21 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
60 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
16 °Csea
17 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. Manchester: 1991-2020 normals, Manchester Airport (14.8 km from centre). Marmaris: 2000-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Dalaman (48.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureManchesterMarmaris
Official languageEnglishTurkish
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Turkish Lira (TRY)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+3
Emergency number112 or 999112
Elevation38 m7 m
Main airportManchester Airport (MAN)15 km from centre211 non-stop destinationsDalaman International Airport (DLM)49 km from centre61 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureManchesterMarmaris
City population547,62797,818
People per km²4,737111
Museums within 10 km281
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
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.