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The harbour seen from above, Marmaris
MarmarisThe harbour seen from above
The Arctic Cathedral, Tromso
TromsoThe Arctic Cathedral

Photos: Marmaris by Mstyslav Chernov, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Tromso by Moyan Brenn, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Marmaris or Tromso?

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
  • day trips
  • prices

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

Choose Tromso for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • live music and the arts
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on Tromso’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, Tromso 8: Marmaris leads by 72 points.
Food & drink. Marmaris 40, Tromso 36: Marmaris leads by 4 points.
Culture & sights. Marmaris 18, Tromso 27: Tromso leads by 9 points.
Nightlife. Marmaris 60, Tromso 38: Marmaris leads by 22 points.
Nature & outdoors. Marmaris 72, Tromso 92: Tromso leads by 20 points.
Day trips. Marmaris 65, Tromso 14: Marmaris leads by 51 points.
Good for families. Marmaris 62, Tromso 45: Marmaris leads by 17 points.
Getting around. Marmaris 55, Tromso 60: Tromso leads by 5 points.
Shopping & style. Marmaris 38, Tromso 15: Marmaris leads by 23 points.
Affordability. Marmaris 62, Tromso 11: Marmaris leads by 51 points.
Live music & performing arts. Marmaris 12, Tromso 32: Tromso leads by 20 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Marmaris 50, Tromso 38: Marmaris leads by 12 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Marmaris and Tromso.

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 day trips with your weighting.

Tromso
35match

Wins on nature and the outdoors 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

Tromso in July

16 °Cdaytime high
9 °Cnight-time low
73 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
10 °Csea
24 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). Tromso: 1991-2020 normals, Tromso (0.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureMarmarisTromso
Official languageTurkishNorwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, Sámi
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Norwegian Krone (NOK)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112Police 112, ambulance 113, fire 110
Elevation7 m20 m
Main airportDalaman International Airport (DLM)49 km from centre61 non-stop destinationsTromsø Airport (TOS)4 km from centre49 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureMarmarisTromso
City population97,81879,943
People per km²11132
Museums within 10 km18
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.