VacationSelector

Bangkok or Izmir?

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

Your match

Bangkok
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on places to eat and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Izmir
53
match

Wins on year-round weather 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.

BangkokIzmir
Beaches & swimming. Izmir leads by 15 points.15
BangkokIzmir
Score4055
Swim season months125
Beaches 10 km04
Coast distance23 km1 km
Water distance23 km1 km
Places to eat. Bangkok leads by 34 points.34
BangkokIzmir
Score8349
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3,957770
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2612
Museums & heritage. Bangkok leads by 3 points.3
BangkokIzmir
Score4643
Museums within 10 km10347
Museums within 2 km of centre3027
Share of museums within 2 km %2957
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Bangkok leads by 21 points.21
BangkokIzmir
Score8362
Drinking venues within 4 km3,3831,028
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,396695
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4168
Nightclubs within 4 km7270
Nature & day trips. Bangkok leads by 22 points.22
BangkokIzmir
Score5129
Protected land share 50 km %—4
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %8384
Park area within 2 km42 hectares62 hectares
Good for families. Bangkok leads by 22 points.22
BangkokIzmir
Score5735
Tourist attractions within 2 km316
Park area within 2 km42 hectares62 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km42
Sights concentration. Bangkok leads by 8 points.8
BangkokIzmir
Score4840
Notable places within 2 km6239
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bangkok leads by 4 points.4
BangkokIzmir
Score9389
Price level global29.735.2
Daily budget—€100
Year-round weather. Izmir leads by 16 points.16
BangkokIzmir
Score5672
Monthly daytime high32.4 °C to 35.8 °C13 °C to 33.9 °C
Monthly rainfall7 mm to 331 mm1 mm to 127 mm
Dry months35
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
Bangkok
33
34
35
36
35
34
34
33
33
33
33
32
Izmir
13
14
17
21
27
31
34
34
29
24
19
14
Sea temperature, °C
Bangkok
27
28
29
30
31
30
30
30
29
29
29
28
Izmir
16
16
16
17
19
22
23
24
23
21
19
17
Rainfall, mm
Bangkok
18
22
43
92
221
187
184
227
331
276
42
7
Izmir
119
107
77
51
33
13
1
4
22
55
96
127
Daylight, hours per day
Bangkok
11
12
12
12
13
13
13
13
12
12
12
11
Izmir
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Bangkok
8
8
8
8
7
5
5
4
4
5
7
8
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. Bangkok: 1991-2020 normals, Bangkok (5.7 km from centre). Izmir: 1991-2020 normals, Izmir (3.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBangkokIzmir
IstanbulIST, SAW
9 h 30 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
1 h 5 m
€46-55
ADB · 13 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 55 m
€438-523
BKK · 26 km
3 h 45 m
€119-184
ADB · 13 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
11 h 15 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
3 h 0 m
€204-238
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
MoscowVKO, SVO, DME, ZIA
9 h 0 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
3 h 15 m
€244-307
1 stop
BJV · 137 km
MunichMUC
11 h 0 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
2 h 40 m
€185-288
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
AmsterdamAMS
11 h 30 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
3 h 25 m
€221-272
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
11 h 35 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
ZurichZRH
11 h 20 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
2 h 50 m
€161-180
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 25 m
€409-425
DMK · 21 km
4 h 15 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
TashkentTAS
5 h 45 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
4 h 55 m
€319-343
1 stop
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

MeasureBangkokIzmir
Official languageThaiTurkish
CurrencyBaht (THB)Turkish Lira (TRY)
SocketsABCF220 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+7UTC+3
Emergency numberPolice 191, ambulance 1669, fire 199112
Elevation2 m2 m
Main airportSuvarnabhumi Airport (BKK)26 km from centre142 non-stop destinationsAdnan Menderes International Airport (ADB)13 km from centre120 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year–14 days

By the numbers

MeasureBangkokIzmir
City population5,676,6484,493,242
People per km²3,6194,760
Museums within 10 km5929
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre9120
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months5 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). 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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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.