VacationSelector

Aarhus or Izmir?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Aarhus
44
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and places to eat with your weighting.

Izmir
✓ Best match
53
match

Wins on value for money and nightlife with your weighting.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

AarhusIzmir
Beaches & swimming. Aarhus leads by 4 points.4
AarhusIzmir
Score5955
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km284
Coast distance0 km1 km
Water distance0 km1 km
Places to eat. Aarhus leads by 4 points.4
AarhusIzmir
Score5349
Restaurants within 2 km of centre427770
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2612
Museums & heritage. Izmir leads by 5 points.5
AarhusIzmir
Score3843
Museums within 10 km2647
Museums within 2 km of centre2027
Share of museums within 2 km %7757
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Izmir leads by 22 points.22
AarhusIzmir
Score4062
Drinking venues within 4 km3821,028
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre330695
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8668
Nightclubs within 4 km1570
Nature & day trips. Izmir leads by 1 points.1
AarhusIzmir
Score2829
Protected land share 50 km %24
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %6884
Park area within 2 km72 hectares62 hectares
Good for families. Izmir leads by 2 points.2
AarhusIzmir
Score3335
Tourist attractions within 2 km66
Park area within 2 km72 hectares62 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Izmir leads by 3 points.3
AarhusIzmir
Score3740
Notable places within 2 km3339
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Izmir leads by 37 points.37
AarhusIzmir
Score5289
Price level global87.835.2
Daily budget€214€100
Year-round weather. Izmir leads by 19 points.19
AarhusIzmir
Score5372
Monthly daytime high3.7 °C to 21.6 °C13 °C to 33.9 °C
Monthly rainfall33 mm to 74 mm1 mm to 127 mm
Dry months35
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When should you go?

The figures behind each month. Each row is shaded against that destination's own year, so the deepest cell is its best month for that measure and the palest its weakest. Shades are not comparable between the two rows.

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Daytime high, °C
Aarhus
4
4
7
12
16
19
22
21
17
12
8
5
Izmir
13
14
17
21
27
31
34
34
29
24
19
14
Sea temperature, °C
Aarhus
3
2
3
6
11
15
17
18
15
12
8
5
Izmir
16
16
16
17
19
22
23
24
23
21
19
17
Rainfall, mm
Aarhus
51
37
36
33
46
64
62
74
66
68
55
50
Izmir
119
107
77
51
33
13
1
4
22
55
96
127
Daylight, hours per day
Aarhus
8
10
12
14
16
18
17
15
13
11
8
7
Izmir
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Aarhus
No sunshine record
Izmir
5
5
7
8
10
11
13
12
10
8
6
4

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Aarhus: 1991-2020 normals, Tirstrup (29.8 km from centre). Izmir: 1991-2020 normals, Izmir (3.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAarhusIzmir
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 10 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
1 h 5 m
€46-55
ADB · 13 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 15 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
3 h 25 m
€221-272
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 25 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
3 h 0 m
€204-238
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
AntalyaAYT
3 h 45 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
1 h 5 m
€75-89
ADB · 13 km
MunichMUC
1 h 40 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
2 h 40 m
€185-288
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
CopenhagenCPH
50 m
no fares
AAR · 30 km
3 h 10 m
no fares
MJT · 86 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 45 m
no fares
AAR · 30 km
3 h 45 m
€119-184
ADB · 13 km
KrakowKRK
1 h 45 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 35 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
3 h 55 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km

The busiest departure cities for these two, with a place kept for each other part of the world. Busiest means arriving passengers where an official count exists, and where none does, the number of non-stop services flown: official route statistics are published by the European reporting countries and by nobody else, so a table ranked on them alone would offer a reader in New York or Tokyo ten European cities. Flying times are estimated from the distance between airports, and every row is a city flown non-stop to both. Where the typical offer connects anyway, the stops are shown. Under each figure is the airport the flight lands at and how far that is from the centre, because the nearest airport is not always the one a route is flown to. Where both columns name the same airport it is one flight, and the difference between the two is the distance printed beside it. Typical return fares for 2026-08 to 2026-10, cached market data up to 7 days old. The figure is the middle half of the offers found, so a single price means they agreed and a range means they did not; for a typical route that middle half spans about a quarter of the median, and for the least settled routes rather more than the median itself.

Before you go

MeasureAarhusIzmir
Official languageDanishTurkish
CurrencyDanish Krone (DKK)Turkish Lira (TRY)
SocketsCEFK230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+3
Emergency number112112
Elevation6 m2 m
Main airportAarhus Airport (AAR)30 km from centre14 non-stop destinationsAdnan Menderes International Airport (ADB)13 km from centre120 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureAarhusIzmir
City population290,5984,493,242
People per km²3,1934,760
Museums within 10 km1729
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre3720
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone5 months

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Sources

© OpenStreetMap contributors, data available under the Open Database Licence. Place counts include data from Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA Permissive 2.0), assembled from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and other providers. Notable-place counts from Wikidata (CC0), weighted by Wikipedia language editions. Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. 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. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0.

Scores follow rubric v2; snapshot generated 2026-08-31. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.