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The harbour seen from above, Marmaris
MarmarisThe harbour seen from above
The Opera House from the water, Sydney
SydneyThe Opera House from the water

Photos: Marmaris by Mstyslav Chernov, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Sydney by Bernard Spragg, CC0.

Marmaris or Sydney?

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
  • day trips

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

Choose Sydney for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Sydney’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, Sydney 95: Sydney leads by 15 points.
Food & drink. Marmaris 40, Sydney 77: Sydney leads by 37 points.
Culture & sights. Marmaris 18, Sydney 60: Sydney leads by 42 points.
Nightlife. Marmaris and Sydney are level on 60.
Nature & outdoors. Marmaris 72, Sydney 85: Sydney leads by 13 points.
Day trips. Marmaris 65, Sydney 50: Marmaris leads by 15 points.
Good for families. Marmaris 62, Sydney 75: Sydney leads by 13 points.
Getting around. Marmaris 55, Sydney 75: Sydney leads by 20 points.
Shopping & style. Marmaris 38, Sydney 68: Sydney leads by 30 points.
Affordability. Marmaris 62, Sydney 22: Marmaris leads by 40 points.
Live music & performing arts. Marmaris 12, Sydney 73: Sydney leads by 61 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Marmaris 50, Sydney 55: Sydney leads by 5 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Marmaris and Sydney.

Your match

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

Marmaris
51match

Wins on prices and day trips with your weighting.

Sydney
Best match
66match

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
No recordsunshine a day
25 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Sydney in July

18 °Cdaytime high
9 °Cnight-time low
70 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
19 °Csea
10 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). Sydney: 1991-2020 normals, Sydney Airport (3.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureMarmarisSydney
Official languageTurkishEnglish
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Australian Dollar (AUD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzI230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+3UTC+10, UTC+11 in summer
Emergency number112000
Elevation7 m6 m
Main airportDalaman International Airport (DLM)49 km from centre61 non-stop destinationsSydney Kingsford Smith International Airport (SYD)9 km from centre99 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureMarmarisSydney
City population97,8185,450,496
People per km²111449
Museums within 10 km138
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Swim season, months above 21 °C6 months6 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.