VacationSelector

Amsterdam or Izmir?

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

Your match

Amsterdam
✓ Best match
65
match

Wins on museums & heritage and places to eat with your weighting.

Izmir
53
match

Wins on value for money and beaches & swimming 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.

AmsterdamIzmir
Beaches & swimming. Izmir leads by 15 points.15
AmsterdamIzmir
Score4055
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km334
Coast distance24 km1 km
Water distance24 km1 km
Places to eat. Amsterdam leads by 34 points.34
AmsterdamIzmir
Score8349
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,957770
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4412
Museums & heritage. Amsterdam leads by 37 points.37
AmsterdamIzmir
Score8043
Museums within 10 km9847
Museums within 2 km of centre6927
Share of museums within 2 km %7057
Unesco sites within 50 km50
Nightlife. Amsterdam leads by 8 points.8
AmsterdamIzmir
Score7062
Drinking venues within 4 km1,5431,028
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,078695
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7068
Nightclubs within 4 km11470
Nature & day trips. Amsterdam leads by 31 points.31
AmsterdamIzmir
Score6029
Protected land share 50 km %214
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %8284
Park area within 2 km49 hectares62 hectares
Good for families. Amsterdam leads by 33 points.33
AmsterdamIzmir
Score6835
Tourist attractions within 2 km746
Park area within 2 km49 hectares62 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km32
Sights concentration. Amsterdam leads by 28 points.28
AmsterdamIzmir
Score6840
Notable places within 2 km19639
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Izmir leads by 31 points.31
AmsterdamIzmir
Score5889
Price level global79.235.2
Daily budget€181€100
Year-round weather. Izmir leads by 15 points.15
AmsterdamIzmir
Score5772
Monthly daytime high6.1 °C to 23.1 °C13 °C to 33.9 °C
Monthly rainfall42 mm to 85 mm1 mm to 127 mm
Dry months05
0255075100

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
Amsterdam
6
7
11
15
18
21
23
23
20
15
10
7
Izmir
13
14
17
21
27
31
34
34
29
24
19
14
Sea temperature, °C
Amsterdam
6
5
6
8
12
15
17
19
17
15
11
8
Izmir
16
16
16
17
19
22
23
24
23
21
19
17
Rainfall, mm
Amsterdam
71
63
58
42
59
71
85
84
78
81
80
84
Izmir
119
107
77
51
33
13
1
4
22
55
96
127
Daylight, hours per day
Amsterdam
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Izmir
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Amsterdam
2
3
5
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2
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. Amsterdam: 1991-2020 normals, De Bilt (35.3 km from centre). Izmir: 1991-2020 normals, Izmir (3.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAmsterdamIzmir
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 15 m
€166-175
AMS · 12 km
1 h 5 m
€46-55
ADB · 13 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 5 m
€93-112
AMS · 12 km
3 h 45 m
€119-184
ADB · 13 km
AnkaraESB
3 h 40 m
no fares
AMS · 12 km
1 h 20 m
€54-66
ADB · 13 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 5 m
€152-186
AMS · 12 km
3 h 0 m
€204-238
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
BerlinBER
1 h 20 m
€150-227
AMS · 12 km
2 h 55 m
€177-214
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
DublinDUB
1 h 35 m
€69-96
AMS · 12 km
4 h 15 m
€231-257
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 10 m
€130-171
AMS · 12 km
3 h 15 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
MunichMUC
1 h 25 m
€203-231
AMS · 12 km
2 h 40 m
€185-288
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 10 m
€178-300
AMS · 12 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 45 m
€318-346
1 stop
AMS · 12 km
4 h 15 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

MeasureAmsterdamIzmir
Official languageDutchTurkish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Turkish Lira (TRY)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+3
Emergency number112 or 911112
Elevation-2 m2 m
Main airportAmsterdam Airport Schiphol (AMS)12 km from centre287 non-stop destinationsAdnan Menderes International Airport (ADB)13 km from centre120 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureAmsterdamIzmir
City population921,4684,493,242
People per km²4,2084,760
Museums within 10 km10129
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km50
Distinct cuisines in the centre9820
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). 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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.