VacationSelector

Antwerp or Izmir?

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

Your match

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Antwerp
51
match

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

Izmir
53
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and value for money 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.

AntwerpIzmir
Beaches & swimming. Izmir leads by 55 points.55
AntwerpIzmir
Score055
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km14
Coast distance21 km1 km
Water distance—1 km
Places to eat. Antwerp leads by 26 points.26
AntwerpIzmir
Score7549
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,164770
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4212
Museums & heritage. Antwerp leads by 26 points.26
AntwerpIzmir
Score6943
Museums within 10 km4147
Museums within 2 km of centre2727
Share of museums within 2 km %6657
Unesco sites within 50 km90
Nightlife. Izmir leads by 3 points.3
AntwerpIzmir
Score5962
Drinking venues within 4 km8661,028
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre657695
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7668
Nightclubs within 4 km7370
Nature & day trips. Antwerp leads by 5 points.5
AntwerpIzmir
Score3429
Protected land share 50 km %74
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %8084
Park area within 2 km53 hectares62 hectares
Good for families. Antwerp leads by 11 points.11
AntwerpIzmir
Score4635
Tourist attractions within 2 km146
Park area within 2 km53 hectares62 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km32
Sights concentration. Antwerp leads by 14 points.14
AntwerpIzmir
Score5440
Notable places within 2 km8839
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Izmir leads by 29 points.29
AntwerpIzmir
Score6089
Price level global76.235.2
Daily budget€180€100
Year-round weather. Izmir leads by 14 points.14
AntwerpIzmir
Score5872
Monthly daytime high6.5 °C to 23.2 °C13 °C to 33.9 °C
Monthly rainfall47 mm to 90 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
Antwerp
7
8
11
15
19
21
23
23
20
15
10
7
Izmir
13
14
17
21
27
31
34
34
29
24
19
14
Sea temperature, °C
Antwerp
No coastline within reach
Izmir
16
16
16
17
19
22
23
24
23
21
19
17
Rainfall, mm
Antwerp
77
67
59
47
61
72
80
90
67
71
75
89
Izmir
119
107
77
51
33
13
1
4
22
55
96
127
Daylight, hours per day
Antwerp
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
Antwerp
2
2
4
6
6
7
7
6
5
4
2
1
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. Antwerp: 1991-2020 normals, Antwerpen / Deurne (5.2 km from centre). Izmir: 1991-2020 normals, Izmir (3.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAntwerpIzmir
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 10 m
€161-193
BRU · 36 km
1 h 5 m
€46-55
ADB · 13 km
AnkaraESB
3 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 36 km
1 h 20 m
€54-66
ADB · 13 km
MadridMAD
2 h 15 m
€98-170
BRU · 36 km
3 h 45 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 0 m
€138-162
2 stops
BRU · 36 km
3 h 0 m
€204-238
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 55 m
€47-116
BRU · 36 km
3 h 15 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 5 m
€98-165
1 stop
BRU · 36 km
3 h 45 m
€119-184
ADB · 13 km
AntalyaAYT
3 h 45 m
€179-232
1 stop
BRU · 36 km
1 h 5 m
€75-89
ADB · 13 km
MunichMUC
1 h 20 m
no fares
BRU · 36 km
2 h 40 m
€185-288
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
BerlinBER
1 h 25 m
€115-161
1 stop
BRU · 36 km
2 h 55 m
€177-214
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 45 m
no fares
BRU · 36 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

MeasureAntwerpIzmir
Official languageFrench, German, DutchTurkish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Turkish Lira (TRY)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+3
Emergency number112112
Elevation7 m2 m
Main airportBrussels Airport (BRU)36 km from centre191 non-stop destinationsAdnan Menderes International Airport (ADB)13 km from centre120 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureAntwerpIzmir
City population529,2474,493,242
People per km²2,5424,760
Museums within 10 km3829
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km90
Distinct cuisines in the centre8020
Swim season, months above 21 °C–5 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. 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.