VacationSelector

Budapest or Izmir?

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

Your match

Budapest
✓ Best match
60
match

Wins on good for families and sights concentration 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.

BudapestIzmir
Beaches & swimming. Izmir leads by 55 points.55
BudapestIzmir
Score055
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km64
Coast distance10,000 km1 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Budapest leads by 28 points.28
BudapestIzmir
Score7749
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,699770
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3512
Museums & heritage. Budapest leads by 21 points.21
BudapestIzmir
Score6443
Museums within 10 km14447
Museums within 2 km of centre6427
Share of museums within 2 km %4457
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Budapest leads by 10 points.10
BudapestIzmir
Score7262
Drinking venues within 4 km1,7651,028
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,168695
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6668
Nightclubs within 4 km9770
Nature & day trips. Budapest leads by 11 points.11
BudapestIzmir
Score4029
Protected land share 50 km %84
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10084
Park area within 2 km111 hectares62 hectares
Good for families. Budapest leads by 36 points.36
BudapestIzmir
Score7135
Tourist attractions within 2 km756
Park area within 2 km111 hectares62 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Budapest leads by 29 points.29
BudapestIzmir
Score6940
Notable places within 2 km20639
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Izmir leads by 9 points.9
BudapestIzmir
Score8089
Price level global4835.2
Daily budget€104€100
Year-round weather. Izmir leads by 8 points.8
BudapestIzmir
Score6472
Monthly daytime high3.6 °C to 27.9 °C13 °C to 33.9 °C
Monthly rainfall27 mm to 75 mm1 mm to 127 mm
Dry months55
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
Budapest
4
7
11
17
22
26
27
28
22
16
9
4
Izmir
13
14
17
21
27
31
34
34
29
24
19
14
Sea temperature, °C
Budapest
No coastline within reach
Izmir
16
16
16
17
19
22
23
24
23
21
19
17
Rainfall, mm
Budapest
29
27
30
37
67
67
75
60
48
41
48
39
Izmir
119
107
77
51
33
13
1
4
22
55
96
127
Daylight, hours per day
Budapest
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Izmir
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Budapest
2
4
5
7
9
9
10
9
7
5
3
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. Budapest: 1991-2020 normals, Budapest Met Center (2.1 km from centre). Izmir: 1991-2020 normals, Izmir (3.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBudapestIzmir
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 50 m
€87-214
BUD · 18 km
1 h 5 m
€46-55
ADB · 13 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 25 m
€63-91
BUD · 18 km
3 h 45 m
€119-184
ADB · 13 km
AnkaraESB
2 h 15 m
no fares
BUD · 18 km
1 h 20 m
€54-66
ADB · 13 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 40 m
€123-153
1 stop
BUD · 18 km
3 h 0 m
€204-238
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 40 m
€42-56
BUD · 18 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 10 m
€97-114
BUD · 18 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
BerlinBER
1 h 30 m
€53-90
BUD · 18 km
2 h 55 m
€177-214
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
2 h 0 m
€58-94
BUD · 18 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
3 h 15 m
€122-156
BUD · 18 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
TashkentTAS
5 h 20 m
no fares
BUD · 18 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

MeasureBudapestIzmir
Official languageHungarianTurkish
CurrencyForint (HUF)Turkish Lira (TRY)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+3
Emergency number112112
Elevation117 m2 m
Main airportBudapest Liszt Ferenc International Airport (BUD)18 km from centre155 non-stop destinationsAdnan Menderes International Airport (ADB)13 km from centre120 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureBudapestIzmir
City population1,685,2094,493,242
People per km²3,2094,760
Museums within 10 km8129
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre8620
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). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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. 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.