Kos vs Turkey

Pool deck with loungers overlooking a bay, white modern building, and dining area at Mitsis Selection Blue Domes under blue sky.

Aerial view of Concorde De Luxe Resort's distinctive white building with curved wings overlooking multiple pools, beach, and turquoise Mediterranean Sea with boats.

Kos and Turkey, side by side: live travel advisories, our resort catalog's real guest data, and each destination's honest weather picture. Everything you need to break the tie.

By the numbers

Kos compared with Turkey
Kos	Measure	Turkey
Level 1: Exercise Normal Precautions (better)	U.S. travel advisory	Level 2: Exercise Increased Caution
2	Resorts in our catalog	19 (better)
★ 4.8 (better)	Average guest rating	★ 4.6
$177–$857/night pp	Nightly rates	$1–$833/night pp (better)
0 of 2	Adults-only resorts	0 of 19
No hurricane season	Hurricane exposure	No hurricane season
November–March	Rainy season	November–February (impressively wet winters, irrelevant to summer trips)
June and September; July–August is hottest and windiest	Sweet spot	May–June and September–October; July–August regularly tops 90°F

Advisory levels sync from travel.state.gov; catalog figures reflect the resorts we've researched, not every hotel in the country. A marked row is one we are willing to call; rows without a mark are a matter of taste, or we have no comparable figure for both sides.

On the map

Kos

Turkey

Weather, month by month

Month-by-month average high temperature and rainfall for Kos and Turkey
Measure	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Kos · high °F	59	59	63	68	76	84	88	88	83	76	68	61
Turkey · high °F	59	60	64	70	78	86	93	93	87	79	69	61
Kos · rain (in)	5.0	3.4	2.4	0.9	0.4	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.3	2.1	3.6	5.8
Turkey · rain (in)	9.2	6.3	3.8	1.8	1.2	0.4	0.1	0.1	0.6	2.6	7.1	10.2