VacationSelector

Bath or Izmir?

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

Your match

Bath
40
match

Wins on nature & day trips and good for families with your weighting.

Izmir
✓ Best match
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.

BathIzmir
Beaches & swimming. Izmir leads by 47 points.47
BathIzmir
Score855
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km14
Coast distance29 km1 km
Water distance29 km1 km
Places to eat. Izmir leads by 3 points.3
BathIzmir
Score4649
Restaurants within 2 km of centre245770
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2612
Museums & heritage. Bath leads by 4 points.4
BathIzmir
Score4743
Museums within 10 km2047
Museums within 2 km of centre1427
Share of museums within 2 km %7057
Unesco sites within 50 km20
Nightlife. Izmir leads by 26 points.26
BathIzmir
Score3662
Drinking venues within 4 km3201,028
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre240695
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7568
Nightclubs within 4 km1170
Nature & day trips. Bath leads by 15 points.15
BathIzmir
Score4429
Protected land share 50 km %284
Landscape blanket share 50 km %270
Land share of disc %9284
Park area within 2 km45 hectares62 hectares
Good for families. Bath leads by 5 points.5
BathIzmir
Score4035
Tourist attractions within 2 km146
Park area within 2 km45 hectares62 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Izmir leads by 8 points.8
BathIzmir
Score3240
Notable places within 2 km2539
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Izmir leads by 35 points.35
BathIzmir
Score5489
Price level global84.935.2
Daily budget€100
Year-round weather. Izmir leads by 17 points.17
BathIzmir
Score5572
Monthly daytime high6.8 °C to 21.4 °C13 °C to 33.9 °C
Monthly rainfall49 mm to 87 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
Bath
7
8
10
13
16
19
21
21
18
14
10
7
Izmir
13
14
17
21
27
31
34
34
29
24
19
14
Sea temperature, °C
Bath
8
7
7
9
12
15
18
18
17
15
12
9
Izmir
16
16
16
17
19
22
23
24
23
21
19
17
Rainfall, mm
Bath
77
55
49
54
56
56
61
66
54
87
83
79
Izmir
119
107
77
51
33
13
1
4
22
55
96
127
Daylight, hours per day
Bath
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
Bath
2
3
4
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. Bath: 1991-2020 normals, Lyneham (29.2 km from centre). Izmir: 1991-2020 normals, Izmir (3.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBathIzmir
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 45 m
no fares
BHX · 126 km
1 h 5 m
€46-55
ADB · 13 km
AntalyaAYT
4 h 20 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
1 h 5 m
€75-89
ADB · 13 km
DusseldorfDUS, NRN
1 h 20 m
no fares
BHX · 126 km
3 h 10 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 15 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
3 h 25 m
€221-272
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 35 m
no fares
BHX · 126 km
3 h 0 m
€204-238
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
ThessalonikiSKG
3 h 25 m
€95-154
BRS · 25 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
SMI · 83 km
ZurichZRH
1 h 45 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
2 h 50 m
€161-180
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
DublinDUB
1 h 5 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
4 h 15 m
€231-257
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
BakuGYD
5 h 20 m
no fares
LHR · 132 km
3 h 0 m
€237-313
ADB · 13 km
TashkentTAS
6 h 50 m
no fares
LHR · 132 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 2026-09 to 2026-09, 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

MeasureBathIzmir
Official languageEnglishTurkish
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Turkish Lira (TRY)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+3
Emergency number112 or 999112
Elevation132 m2 m
Main airportBristol Airport (BRS)25 km from centre116 non-stop destinationsAdnan Menderes International Airport (ADB)13 km from centre120 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureBathIzmir
City population94,0924,493,242
People per km²3,2454,760
Museums within 10 km1729
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Distinct cuisines in the centre3820
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). 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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.