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The harbour seen from above, Marmaris
MarmarisThe harbour seen from above
The red aerial tram nearing the top of Hidden Peak, Snowbird
SnowbirdThe red aerial tram nearing the top of Hidden Peak

Photos: Marmaris by Mstyslav Chernov, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Snowbird by VeggieGarden, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Marmaris or Snowbird?

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
  • prices

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

Choose Snowbird for

  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Snowbird’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, Snowbird 5: Marmaris leads by 75 points.
Food & drink. Marmaris 40, Snowbird 20: Marmaris leads by 20 points.
Culture & sights. Marmaris 18, Snowbird 5: Marmaris leads by 13 points.
Nightlife. Marmaris 60, Snowbird 9: Marmaris leads by 51 points.
Nature & outdoors. Marmaris 72, Snowbird 92: Snowbird leads by 20 points.
Day trips. Marmaris 65, Snowbird 47: Marmaris leads by 18 points.
Good for families. Marmaris 62, Snowbird 42: Marmaris leads by 20 points.
Getting around. Marmaris 55, Snowbird 40: Marmaris leads by 15 points.
Shopping & style. Marmaris 38, Snowbird 8: Marmaris leads by 30 points.
Affordability. Marmaris 62, Snowbird 15: Marmaris leads by 47 points.
Live music & performing arts. Marmaris 12, Snowbird 8: Marmaris leads by 4 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Marmaris 50, Snowbird 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 Snowbird.

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.

Snowbird
28match

Wins on nature and the outdoors 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

Snowbird in July

22 °Cdaytime high
7 °Cnight-time low
27 mmrain in the month
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.

Snowbird has no weather station within reach, so its figures come from a gridded climate model rather than a measured record, and read a broad area rather than the city itself.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Marmaris: 2000-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Dalaman (48.8 km from centre). Snowbird: 1991-2020 normals, TerraClimate 4 km grid at the town, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureMarmarisSnowbird
Official languageTurkish-
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC-7, UTC-6 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation7 m2,479 m
Main airportDalaman International Airport (DLM)49 km from centre61 non-stop destinationsSalt Lake City International Airport (SLC)36 km from centre108 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureMarmarisSnowbird
City population97,818-
People per km²111-
Museums within 10 km10
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °C6 months-

Where else could you go?

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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. Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. 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.