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The harbour seen from above, Marmaris
MarmarisThe harbour seen from above
A cobbled street of painted houses in Old San Juan, San Juan
San JuanA cobbled street of painted houses in Old San Juan

Photos: Marmaris by Mstyslav Chernov, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; San Juan by Mohan Nannapaneni, Pexels License.

Marmaris or San Juan?

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

  • prices
  • getting around
  • day trips

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

Choose San Juan for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on San Juan’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 Juan 84: San Juan leads by 4 points.
Food & drink. Marmaris 40, San Juan 66: San Juan leads by 26 points.
Culture & sights. Marmaris 18, San Juan 64: San Juan leads by 46 points.
Nightlife. Marmaris 60, San Juan 70: San Juan leads by 10 points.
Nature & outdoors. Marmaris 72, San Juan 74: San Juan leads by 2 points.
Day trips. Marmaris 65, San Juan 52: Marmaris leads by 13 points.
Good for families. Marmaris 62, San Juan 58: Marmaris leads by 4 points.
Getting around. Marmaris 55, San Juan 38: Marmaris leads by 17 points.
Shopping & style. Marmaris 38, San Juan 50: San Juan leads by 12 points.
Affordability. Marmaris 62, San Juan 38: Marmaris leads by 24 points.
Live music & performing arts. Marmaris 12, San Juan 55: San Juan leads by 43 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Marmaris 50, San Juan 40: Marmaris leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Marmaris and San Juan.

Your match

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

Marmaris
51match

Wins on prices and getting around with your weighting.

San Juan
Best match
57match

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

San Juan in July

32 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
153 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
28 °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). San Juan: 1991-2020 normals, San Juan / Int., Puerto Rico (12.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureMarmarisSan Juan
Official languageTurkishSpanish, English
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC-4
Emergency number112911
Elevation7 m3 m
Main airportDalaman International Airport (DLM)49 km from centre61 non-stop destinationsLuis Munoz Marin International Airport (SJU)12 km from centre59 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days21 days

By the numbers

MeasureMarmarisSan Juan
City population97,818342,259
People per km²1112,847
Museums within 10 km118
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.