VacationSelector

Cadiz or Istanbul?

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

Your match

Cadiz
49
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and year-round weather with your weighting.

Istanbul
✓ Best match
65
match

Wins on nightlife and sights concentration 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.

CadizIstanbul
Beaches & swimming. Cadiz leads by 27 points.27
CadizIstanbul
Score7043
Swim season months33
Beaches 10 km292
Coast distance0 km0 km
Water distance0 km0 km
Places to eat. Istanbul leads by 26 points.26
CadizIstanbul
Score4470
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3382,086
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1820
Museums & heritage. Istanbul leads by 30 points.30
CadizIstanbul
Score3666
Museums within 10 km23145
Museums within 2 km of centre1671
Share of museums within 2 km %7049
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Istanbul leads by 49 points.49
CadizIstanbul
Score3079
Drinking venues within 4 km2412,266
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1751,176
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7352
Nightclubs within 4 km6221
Nature & day trips. Cadiz leads by 1 points.1
CadizIstanbul
Score2625
Protected land share 50 km %41
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %4548
Park area within 2 km24 hectares60 hectares
Good for families. Istanbul leads by 13 points.13
CadizIstanbul
Score5467
Tourist attractions within 2 km8068
Park area within 2 km24 hectares60 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km02
Sights concentration. Istanbul leads by 44 points.44
CadizIstanbul
Score3175
Notable places within 2 km23285
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Istanbul leads by 18 points.18
CadizIstanbul
Score7189
Price level global60.835.2
Daily budget€122€100
Year-round weather. Cadiz leads by 14 points.14
CadizIstanbul
Score8369
Monthly daytime high16.2 °C to 28 °C9.2 °C to 29.7 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 89 mm23 mm to 101 mm
Dry months54
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
Cadiz
16
17
19
20
23
26
28
28
26
23
20
17
Istanbul
9
10
12
17
22
27
30
30
26
21
16
11
Sea temperature, °C
Cadiz
16
15
16
17
18
21
23
23
22
20
18
17
Istanbul
9
8
9
11
16
21
23
24
22
19
15
12
Rainfall, mm
Cadiz
62
52
54
43
32
6
0
2
29
76
89
73
Istanbul
74
74
66
47
29
29
23
29
43
85
79
101
Daylight, hours per day
Cadiz
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Istanbul
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Cadiz
6
7
8
9
11
12
12
11
9
8
6
5
Istanbul
3
3
5
6
9
10
11
10
7
5
4
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Cadiz: 1991-2020 normals, Cadiz Bay / Puntales (5.2 km from centre). Istanbul: 1991-2020 normals, Istanbul / Goztepe (9.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCadizIstanbul
BilbaoBIO
1 h 30 m
€112-119
SVQ · 105 km
3 h 45 m
no fares
IST · 36 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 35 m
€83-157
TNG · 95 km
3 h 15 m
€141-223
IST · 36 km
ValenciaVLC
1 h 15 m
€50-96
SVQ · 105 km
3 h 35 m
no fares
IST · 36 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 40 m
no fares
XRY · 31 km
3 h 15 m
€179-269
IST · 36 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 25 m
€89-105
SVQ · 105 km
2 h 40 m
€142-153
1 stop
IST · 36 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 40 m
no fares
XRY · 31 km
3 h 35 m
€110-186
IST · 36 km
MadridMAD
1 h 15 m
no fares
XRY · 31 km
3 h 50 m
no fares
IST · 36 km
LisbonLIS
1 h 5 m
€36-67
SVQ · 105 km
4 h 25 m
no fares
IST · 36 km
DusseldorfDUS, NRN
2 h 55 m
no fares
XRY · 31 km
3 h 5 m
€124-141
SAW · 30 km
MarrakechRAK
1 h 30 m
no fares
SVQ · 105 km
4 h 40 m
no fares
IST · 36 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

MeasureCadizIstanbul
Official languageSpanishTurkish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Turkish Lira (TRY)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+3
Emergency number112112
Elevation11 m100 m
Main airportJerez Airport (XRY)31 km from centre23 non-stop destinationsİstanbul Airport (IST)36 km from centre345 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureCadizIstanbul
City population109,95015,655,924
People per km²9,0872,930
Museums within 10 km1172
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre2862
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 months3 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). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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.