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Cities / Türkiye

Muğla

TürkiyeCsa
© OpenStreetMap, CARTO
Muğla coordinate map

Muğla at a glance

Local time   · Europe/Istanbul
Today
Overcast35° / 22°
Travel basics
Tap water
Treat or filter
Electricity
230V/50Hz · Type C / F
Drives on
Right
Currency
TRY
Language
Turkish
US passport
eVisa

Entry rules change. Verify current requirements before booking.

City context
Population
83K
Elevation
660 m
Climate
Csa
TürkiyeDetails and sources →

Why visit

Visit Muğla for museums, galleries, and collections, music, theater, and performance, landscape, water, gardens, and nearby routes. In Muğla, the strongest material is where museums, streets, religious buildings, markets, performance spaces, food, or nearby landscapes explain the surrounding region. A good itinerary should stay selective. For Muğla, choose the anchor first. The cafe, market, church, gallery, or evening event should follow from that location. For Muğla, this usually reveals more than adding one more distant sight. When Muğla opens onto beaches, hills, rivers, gardens, or nearby towns, add them only when they sharpen the trip.

When to avoid

Do not visit Muğla expecting every worthwhile stop to be close together or easy to improvise. A route through Muğla works best when opening days, transport, weather, and distance are treated as cultural logistics, not afterthoughts. Crowds, sales pressure, traffic, and summer heat can wear down a cultural itinerary. Book major sights where possible and keep important walks for cooler hours.

Plan Muğla

Current conditions and the practical reference material that helps turn the saved places into a trip.

The next week in Muğla

7-day forecast from Open-Meteo. UV badges flag days when sun protection matters (3 and above is moderate; 8 and above is risk territory for unprotected fair skin within 30 minutes).

Today
Overcast
35° / 22°
UV High
Wed
Partly cloudy
35° / 22°
UV High
Thu
Partly cloudy
34° / 23°
UV High
Fri
Partly cloudy
34° / 20°
UV High
Sat
Partly cloudy
35° / 19°
UV High
Sun
Overcast
37° / 24°
UV High
Mon
Partly cloudy
36° / 25°
UV High

Climate

Cool and wet season (Nov-Mar)

About 78% of the year's rain falls in these months. Typical highs around 14°C, lows around 8°C.

Warmer dry season (Apr-Oct)

Typical highs around 29°C, lows around 18°C. About 25mm of rain a month.

In August 4

Drag to scrub across the year.

JFMAMJJASOND
Weather
35° / 23°
Typical high / low
0 mm rainfall this month
Daylight
13.6h
06:22 – 20:00local
Holidays coming up

Public holidays from Nager.Date.

Airports

closest BJV · 62 km

About Muğla

Muğla is a city in southwestern Turkey. The city is the center of the district of Menteşe and Muğla Province, which stretches along Turkey's Aegean coast. Muğla's center is situated inland at an altitude of 660 m and lies at a distance of about 30 km (19 mi) from the nearest seacoast in the Gulf of Gökova to its south-west. Muğla (Menteşe) district area neighbors the district areas of Milas, Yatağan and Kavaklıdere to its north by north-west and those of Ula and Köyceğiz, all of whom are dependent districts. Muğla is the administrative capital of a province that incorporates internationally well-known and popular tourist resorts such as Bodrum, Marmaris, Datça, Dalyan, Fethiye, Ölüdeniz and also the smaller resort of Sarigerme.

Area
1,661 km²
Airport codes
DLM
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References4▾▴

The links below support the changing or licensed reference material on this page. Personal notes and ordinary geographic facts are not footnoted individually.

  1. City background. Wikipedia summary may be clipped or paraphrased. Structured fields are cross-checked against the related references. Related: .
JFMAMJJASOND38°3°
highlowrainfallcomfortable months

Monthly highs, lows, rainfall — long-term averages, NASA POWER.

Wikidata
, Open-Elevation
, IANA Time Zone Database
, CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Weather and climate. Seven-day forecast and long-term monthly climate for the city coordinates. Related: NASA POWER, Open-Meteo license.
  • Getting around. Transit operators from agency GTFS feeds and nearby commercial-airport reference data.
  • Public holidays. Upcoming public-holiday dates used in the annual planning scrubber.
  • Maps, image licenses, and the full dataset registry are listed in site credits.