Turkey is one of the two most expensive large charter markets in the Mediterranean, level with Italy, and the busiest. At the end of September, a third of its upcoming charter weeks were already booked. That is almost three times the Croatian level. It has a longer season than Greece, Croatia or Italy, and its catamarans cost more than twice what its monohulls do.
These figures come from Velamari Market Pulse, our weekly crawl of public charter listing pages. This snapshot is week 2026-W40 (prices refreshed 26–28 September 2026). It covers 507 listed charter boats on Turkey’s Aegean and Mediterranean coast, for the next eight weeks (charter weeks starting 3 October to 21 November). All prices are advertised weekly prices in euros, not what guests finally paid.
Price by region
| Region | Boats | Typical week | Monohull | Catamaran | Booked | Discounted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Göcek | 131 | €3,520 | €2,900 | €6,300 | 38% | 60% |
| Marmaris | 57 | €4,950 | €2,990 | €5,950 | 32% | 56% |
| Fethiye | 30 | €2,900 | – | – | 25% | 3% |
| Orhaniye | 15 | €2,550 | €1,940 | €4,610 | 18% | 96% |
"Typical week" is the median advertised weekly price over the next eight weeks. "Booked" is the share of those weeks no longer offered. "Discounted" is the share advertised below the boat's list price. A dash means fewer than five boats of that type, so the figure is withheld.
Left out: 262 boats the listing site files under "Ören". None of them is based in Ören: about half are in Fethiye, and the rest in Marmaris, Bodrum, Göcek and Muğla, so the label is not a place. They are still counted in Turkey's totals.
Bodrum is left out of the table. Its 12 listed boats have a median of €25,200 a week, which looks like a crewed and luxury fleet rather than bareboat charter. Including it raises Turkey’s boat-weighted typical week from about €3,810 to €4,320. That higher number is the one in our Mediterranean overview. Without Bodrum, Turkey is level with Italy (about €3,850) and still well above Greece (€3,070) and Croatia (€2,150).
Why Turkey is the most booked market
Göcek is the most booked charter region anywhere in the data: 38% of its upcoming weeks are gone. Lavrion and Kos in Greece (34%) and Marmaris (32%) are close behind. Across the whole country, 34% of the next eight weeks are booked. That compares with 24% in Greece and 12% in Croatia and Italy.
Part of that is simply a longer season. Here is the share of Turkish charter boats already booked for each coming week:
| Week starting | Turkey | Greece | Croatia |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 October | 77% | 67% | 41% |
| 10 October | 62% | 47% | 26% |
| 17 October | 53% | 39% | 14% |
| 24 October | 37% | 25% | 11% |
| 31 October | 28% | 7% | 2% |
| 7 November | 9% | 3% | 2% |
On the last weekend of October, more than a quarter of Turkish boats are still out. In Croatia, the season is effectively over by then. For operators elsewhere, Turkey shows there is still real demand in late October. For guests, it means late-season Turkey sells out in a way Croatia does not.
Catamaran vs monohull
Across Turkey, the typical advertised week by hull type and length:
| Length | Monohull | Catamaran |
|---|---|---|
| 10–12 m | €2,130 | €4,440 |
| 12–14 m | €2,440 | €5,320 |
| 14–16 m | €3,690 | €7,910 |
At every length, a Turkish catamaran costs a little over twice a monohull. Göcek shows it most clearly: a typical catamaran week is €6,300 against €2,900 for a monohull. In Croatia, a catamaran up to 14 m costs about 1.6× a monohull of the same length.
Across all the regions we track, boats that list air-conditioning advertise about 4% more per week than comparable boats without it (same region, hull, length, age, cabins and week). There is no country-level figure yet; see the Mediterranean overview.
Where the discounts are
41% of Turkey’s upcoming weeks are advertised below list price, up from 27% a month earlier. The pattern is not the same everywhere:
- Göcek discounts 60% of weeks, but only by a typical 15%. That is shallow trimming in a market that is already selling.
- Marmaris discounts 56% of weeks by a typical 30%, the deepest cuts in Turkey.
- Fethiye barely discounts at all (3%).
For charter operators
Turkey’s numbers show that a high price and a full calendar can go together. The useful question for any fleet is how its own boats compare with the ones a guest is choosing between. National averages don’t answer that. Velamari tracks it per boat, down to make and model, next to your own bookings. See rate benchmarking in the platform, or talk to us.
For how Turkey compares with the rest of the Mediterranean, see Mediterranean charter prices, autumn 2026. The country pages are Greece and Croatia.
Method
Figures are advertised prices and availability from public charter listing sites, crawled on a fixed cadence. Each boat is counted once, from one monitored site. A region is the place the listing gives as the boat’s base, so it can span several marinas: “Göcek” counts every boat listed there, not one marina. Any cell drawn from fewer than five boats is withheld. The full methodology is on the Market Pulse overview, and the live, weekly-updated figures are on the Turkey page.
You are welcome to quote this data. Please credit "data: Velamari Market Pulse" with a link to velamari.com/market.