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The harbour seen from above, Marmaris
MarmarisThe harbour seen from above
The Winchester Mystery House, San Jose
San JoseThe Winchester Mystery House

Photos: Marmaris by Mstyslav Chernov, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; San Jose by Roxanna Salceda, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Marmaris or San Jose?

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
  • prices
  • nightlife

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

Choose San Jose for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on San Jose’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, San Jose 30: Marmaris leads by 50 points.
Food & drink. Marmaris 40, San Jose 56: San Jose leads by 16 points.
Culture & sights. Marmaris 18, San Jose 36: San Jose leads by 18 points.
Nightlife. Marmaris 60, San Jose 33: Marmaris leads by 27 points.
Nature & outdoors. Marmaris and San Jose are level on 72.
Day trips. Marmaris 65, San Jose 78: San Jose leads by 13 points.
Good for families. Marmaris 62, San Jose 65: San Jose leads by 3 points.
Getting around. Marmaris 55, San Jose 30: Marmaris leads by 25 points.
Shopping & style. Marmaris 38, San Jose 48: San Jose leads by 10 points.
Affordability. Marmaris 62, San Jose 20: Marmaris leads by 42 points.
Live music & performing arts. Marmaris 12, San Jose 38: San Jose leads by 26 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Marmaris 50, San Jose 30: Marmaris leads by 20 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Marmaris and San Jose.

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 prices with your weighting.

San Jose
45match

Wins on live music and the arts and culture and sights 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
25 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

San Jose in July

27 °Cdaytime high
15 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
14 °Csea
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). San Jose: 1991-2020 normals, San Jose / Santa Clara Trailer Village (8.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureMarmarisSan Jose
Official languageTurkish-
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation7 m25 m
Main airportDalaman International Airport (DLM)49 km from centre61 non-stop destinationsMineta San Jose International Airport (SJC)8 km from centre38 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureMarmarisSan Jose
City population97,8181,013,240
People per km²1112,167
Museums within 10 km119
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °C6 monthsNone

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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.