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The harbour seen from above, Marmaris
MarmarisThe harbour seen from above
A madrasa and its minarets on the Registan, Samarkand
SamarkandA madrasa and its minarets on the Registan

Photos: Marmaris by Mstyslav Chernov, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Samarkand by Yaşar Başkurt, Pexels License.

Marmaris or Samarkand?

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

  • beaches
  • nightlife
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Samarkand for

  • culture and sights
  • prices
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on Samarkand’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, Samarkand 4: Marmaris leads by 76 points.
Food & drink. Marmaris 40, Samarkand 54: Samarkand leads by 14 points.
Culture & sights. Marmaris 18, Samarkand 84: Samarkand leads by 66 points.
Nightlife. Marmaris 60, Samarkand 14: Marmaris leads by 46 points.
Nature & outdoors. Marmaris 72, Samarkand 40: Marmaris leads by 32 points.
Day trips. Marmaris 65, Samarkand 72: Samarkand leads by 7 points.
Good for families. Marmaris 62, Samarkand 30: Marmaris leads by 32 points.
Getting around. Marmaris 55, Samarkand 58: Samarkand leads by 3 points.
Shopping & style. Marmaris 38, Samarkand 42: Samarkand leads by 4 points.
Affordability. Marmaris 62, Samarkand 80: Samarkand leads by 18 points.
Live music & performing arts. Marmaris 12, Samarkand 24: Samarkand leads by 12 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Marmaris 50, Samarkand 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 Samarkand.

Your match

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

Marmaris
Best match
51match

Wins on beaches and nightlife with your weighting.

Samarkand
45match

Wins on culture and sights 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.

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

Samarkand in July

34 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
2 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
No seasea
15 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). Samarkand: 1991-2020 normals, Samarkand (10 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureMarmarisSamarkand
Official languageTurkishUzbek
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Uzbekistan Sum (UZS)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCFI220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC+5
Emergency number112112
Elevation7 m702 m
Main airportDalaman International Airport (DLM)49 km from centre61 non-stop destinationsSamarkand International Airport (SKD)5 km from centre29 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days-

By the numbers

MeasureMarmarisSamarkand
City population97,818546,303
People per km²1115,058
Museums within 10 km111
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Swim season, months above 21 °C6 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.