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The harbour seen from above, Marmaris
MarmarisThe harbour seen from above
A bright beach on turquoise water at Montego Bay, Montego Bay
Montego BayA bright beach on turquoise water at Montego Bay

Photos: Marmaris by Mstyslav Chernov, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Montego Bay by Dre Dawkcide, Pexels License.

Marmaris or Montego Bay?

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 Marmaris for

  • getting around
  • prices
  • nightlife

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

Choose Montego Bay for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Montego Bay’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. Marmaris 80, Montego Bay 84: Montego Bay leads by 4 points.
Food & drink. Marmaris 40, Montego Bay 50: Montego Bay leads by 10 points.
Culture & sights. Marmaris 18, Montego Bay 28: Montego Bay leads by 10 points.
Nightlife. Marmaris 60, Montego Bay 42: Marmaris leads by 18 points.
Nature & outdoors. Marmaris 72, Montego Bay 65: Marmaris leads by 7 points.
Day trips. Marmaris 65, Montego Bay 50: Marmaris leads by 15 points.
Good for families. Marmaris 62, Montego Bay 48: Marmaris leads by 14 points.
Getting around. Marmaris 55, Montego Bay 20: Marmaris leads by 35 points.
Shopping & style. Marmaris 38, Montego Bay 25: Marmaris leads by 13 points.
Affordability. Marmaris 62, Montego Bay 38: Marmaris leads by 24 points.
Live music & performing arts. Marmaris 12, Montego Bay 32: Montego Bay leads by 20 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Marmaris 50, Montego Bay 45: Marmaris leads by 5 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Marmaris and Montego Bay.

Your match

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

Marmaris
Best match
51match

Wins on getting around and prices with your weighting.

Montego Bay
44match

Wins on live music and the arts and food and drink with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

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

Montego Bay in July

34 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
75 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
29 °Csea
13 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. Marmaris: 2000-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Dalaman (48.8 km from centre). Montego Bay: 1991-2020 normals, Montego Bay / Sangster (3.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureMarmarisMontego Bay
Official languageTurkishEnglish, Jamaican Patois
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Jamaican Dollar (JMD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB116 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+3UTC-5
Emergency number112Police 110/112/119/911, ambulance 110, fire 110
Elevation7 m19 m
Main airportDalaman International Airport (DLM)49 km from centre61 non-stop destinationsSangster International Airport (MBJ)4 km from centre48 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureMarmarisMontego Bay
City population97,818123,994
People per km²111-
Museums within 10 km10
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °C6 months12 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). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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.