VacationSelector

Belfast or Izmir?

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

Your match

Belfast
48
match

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

Izmir
✓ Best match
53
match

Wins on value for money and year-round weather 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.

BelfastIzmir
Beaches & swimming. Izmir leads by 7 points.7
BelfastIzmir
Score4855
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km104
Coast distance1 km1 km
Water distance1 km1 km
Places to eat. Belfast leads by 7 points.7
BelfastIzmir
Score5649
Restaurants within 2 km of centre432770
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3112
Museums & heritage. Izmir leads by 14 points.14
BelfastIzmir
Score2943
Museums within 10 km1847
Museums within 2 km of centre627
Share of museums within 2 km %3357
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Izmir leads by 14 points.14
BelfastIzmir
Score4862
Drinking venues within 4 km5501,028
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre348695
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6368
Nightclubs within 4 km2970
Nature & day trips. Belfast leads by 24 points.24
BelfastIzmir
Score5329
Protected land share 50 km %194
Landscape blanket share 50 km %130
Land share of disc %6584
Park area within 2 km68 hectares62 hectares
Good for families. Belfast leads by 13 points.13
BelfastIzmir
Score4835
Tourist attractions within 2 km166
Park area within 2 km68 hectares62 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km22
Sights concentration. Belfast leads by 2 points.2
BelfastIzmir
Score4240
Notable places within 2 km4339
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Izmir leads by 35 points.35
BelfastIzmir
Score5489
Price level global84.935.2
Daily budget€100
Year-round weather. Izmir leads by 21 points.21
BelfastIzmir
Score5172
Monthly daytime high6.9 °C to 19 °C13 °C to 33.9 °C
Monthly rainfall55 mm to 89 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
Belfast
7
8
10
12
15
18
19
19
17
13
10
7
Izmir
13
14
17
21
27
31
34
34
29
24
19
14
Sea temperature, °C
Belfast
9
8
8
8
9
11
12
13
14
14
12
11
Izmir
16
16
16
17
19
22
23
24
23
21
19
17
Rainfall, mm
Belfast
74
62
60
56
55
65
74
86
67
89
87
85
Izmir
119
107
77
51
33
13
1
4
22
55
96
127
Daylight, hours per day
Belfast
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
7
Izmir
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Belfast
2
2
3
5
6
5
5
5
4
3
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. Belfast: 1991-2020 normals, Belfast / Aldergrove Airport (19.4 km from centre). Izmir: 1991-2020 normals, Izmir (3.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBelfastIzmir
IstanbulIST, SAW
4 h 5 m
€183-239
DUB · 132 km
1 h 5 m
€46-55
ADB · 13 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 15 m
€72-142
BHD · 4 km
3 h 45 m
€119-184
ADB · 13 km
AntalyaAYT
4 h 40 m
no fares
BFS · 20 km
1 h 5 m
€75-89
ADB · 13 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 0 m
no fares
BHD · 4 km
3 h 55 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
EdinburghEDI
55 m
no fares
BHD · 4 km
4 h 20 m
no fares
BJV · 137 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 35 m
no fares
BHD · 4 km
3 h 25 m
€221-272
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
DusseldorfDUS, NRN
1 h 45 m
€133-185
1 stop
DUB · 132 km
3 h 10 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
GlasgowGLA, PIK
50 m
no fares
BHD · 4 km
4 h 15 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
KrakowKRK
2 h 50 m
no fares
BFS · 20 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
no fares
BFS · 20 km
3 h 20 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 2026-09 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

MeasureBelfastIzmir
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
Elevation3 m2 m
Main airportGeorge Best Belfast City Airport (BHD)4 km from centre24 non-stop destinationsAdnan Menderes International Airport (ADB)13 km from centre120 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureBelfastIzmir
City population345,0064,493,242
People per km²3,0004,760
Museums within 10 km829
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre4420
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.