VacationSelector

Beijing 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, level with your weighting

Beijing
53
match

Wins on good for families 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.

BeijingIzmir
Beaches & swimming. Izmir leads by 55 points.55
BeijingIzmir
Score055
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km04
Coast distance145 km1 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eatWe cannot measure this for Beijing.
Museums & heritage. Beijing leads by 20 points.20
BeijingIzmir
Score6343
Museums within 10 km9547
Museums within 2 km of centre1527
Share of museums within 2 km %1657
Unesco sites within 50 km60
NightlifeWe cannot measure this for Beijing.
Nature & day trips. Beijing leads by 6 points.6
BeijingIzmir
Score3529
Protected land share 50 km %34
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10084
Park area within 2 km143 hectares62 hectares
Good for families. Beijing leads by 42 points.42
BeijingIzmir
Score7735
Tourist attractions within 2 km416
Park area within 2 km143 hectares62 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km122
Sights concentration. Beijing leads by 10 points.10
BeijingIzmir
Score5040
Notable places within 2 km6939
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Izmir leads by 10 points.10
BeijingIzmir
Score7989
Price level global4935.2
Daily budget€100
Year-round weather. Izmir leads by 6 points.6
BeijingIzmir
Score6672
Monthly daytime high2.2 °C to 31.8 °C13 °C to 33.9 °C
Monthly rainfall3 mm to 163 mm1 mm to 127 mm
Dry months85
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
Beijing
2
6
13
21
27
31
32
31
27
19
10
4
Izmir
13
14
17
21
27
31
34
34
29
24
19
14
Sea temperature, °C
Beijing
No coastline within reach
Izmir
16
16
16
17
19
22
23
24
23
21
19
17
Rainfall, mm
Beijing
3
6
9
23
38
74
163
112
56
27
14
3
Izmir
119
107
77
51
33
13
1
4
22
55
96
127
Daylight, hours per day
Beijing
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Izmir
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Beijing
6
6
7
8
9
7
6
7
7
7
6
6
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. Beijing: 1991-2020 normals, Beijing (11.1 km from centre). Izmir: 1991-2020 normals, Izmir (3.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBeijingIzmir
IstanbulIST, SAW
9 h 0 m
€475-645
PEK · 25 km
1 h 5 m
€46-55
ADB · 13 km
MoscowVKO, SVO, DME, ZIA
7 h 35 m
€389-526
1 stop
PKX · 45 km
3 h 15 m
€244-307
1 stop
BJV · 137 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
9 h 50 m
no fares
PEK · 25 km
3 h 0 m
€204-238
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
BerlinBER
9 h 20 m
no fares
PEK · 25 km
2 h 55 m
€177-214
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
MunichMUC
9 h 45 m
no fares
PEK · 25 km
2 h 40 m
€185-288
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
10 h 15 m
no fares
PEK · 25 km
3 h 45 m
€119-184
ADB · 13 km
TashkentTAS
5 h 20 m
€342-571
PKX · 45 km
4 h 55 m
€319-343
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
AthensATH
9 h 35 m
no fares
PEK · 25 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
SMI · 83 km
AmsterdamAMS
9 h 55 m
no fares
PEK · 25 km
3 h 25 m
€221-272
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
DohaDOH
7 h 55 m
€595-787
3 stops
PKX · 45 km
3 h 45 m
no fares
BJV · 137 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

MeasureBeijingIzmir
Official languagePutonghuaTurkish
CurrencyYuan Renminbi (CNY)Turkish Lira (TRY)
SocketsACI220 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+8UTC+3
Emergency numberPolice 110, ambulance 120, fire 119112
Elevation43 m2 m
Main airportBeijing Capital International Airport (PEK)25 km from centre88 non-stop destinationsAdnan Menderes International Airport (ADB)13 km from centre120 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year6 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureBeijingIzmir
City population21,893,0954,493,242
People per km²1,3344,760
Museums within 10 km8329
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km60
Distinct cuisines in the centre2920
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 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). 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.