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The harbour seen from above, Marmaris
MarmarisThe harbour seen from above
Painted colonial houses in the Pelourinho, Salvador
SalvadorPainted colonial houses in the Pelourinho

Photos: Marmaris by Mstyslav Chernov, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Salvador by Paul R. Burley, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Marmaris or Salvador?

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

  • nature and the outdoors
  • families
  • wellness

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

Choose Salvador for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Salvador’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, Salvador 84: Salvador leads by 4 points.
Food & drink. Marmaris 40, Salvador 66: Salvador leads by 26 points.
Culture & sights. Marmaris 18, Salvador 74: Salvador leads by 56 points.
Nightlife. Marmaris 60, Salvador 70: Salvador leads by 10 points.
Nature & outdoors. Marmaris 72, Salvador 52: Marmaris leads by 20 points.
Day trips. Marmaris 65, Salvador 56: Marmaris leads by 9 points.
Good for families. Marmaris 62, Salvador 42: Marmaris leads by 20 points.
Getting around. Marmaris 55, Salvador 42: Marmaris leads by 13 points.
Shopping & style. Marmaris 38, Salvador 42: Salvador leads by 4 points.
Affordability. Marmaris 62, Salvador 70: Salvador leads by 8 points.
Live music & performing arts. Marmaris 12, Salvador 63: Salvador leads by 51 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Marmaris 50, Salvador 32: Marmaris leads by 18 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Marmaris and Salvador.

Your match

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

Marmaris
51match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and families with your weighting.

Salvador
Best match
58match

Wins on culture and sights and live music and the arts 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

Salvador in July

27 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
201 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
26 °Csea
11 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). Salvador: 1991-2020 normals, Salvador (4.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureMarmarisSalvador
Official languageTurkishPortuguese
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Brazilian Real (BRL)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCN60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC-3
Emergency number112Police 190, ambulance 192, fire 193
Elevation7 m8 m
Main airportDalaman International Airport (DLM)49 km from centre61 non-stop destinationsDeputado Luiz Eduardo Magalhães International Airport (SSA)20 km from centre31 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureMarmarisSalvador
City population97,8182,417,678
People per km²1113,489
Museums within 10 km149
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
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. 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.