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Catania 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, 1 point apart

Catania
52
match

Wins on museums & heritage and year-round weather with your weighting.

Izmir
53
match

Wins on value for money and nightlife 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.

CataniaIzmir
Beaches & swimming. Catania leads by 3 points.3
CataniaIzmir
Score5855
Swim season months55
Beaches 10 km54
Coast distance1 km1 km
Water distance1 km1 km
Places to eat. Catania and Izmir are level on 49.
CataniaIzmir
Score4949
Restaurants within 2 km of centre637770
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1412
Museums & heritage. Catania leads by 16 points.16
CataniaIzmir
Score5943
Museums within 10 km3447
Museums within 2 km of centre2727
Share of museums within 2 km %7957
Unesco sites within 50 km30
Nightlife. Izmir leads by 15 points.15
CataniaIzmir
Score4762
Drinking venues within 4 km5371,028
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre403695
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7568
Nightclubs within 4 km1870
Nature & day trips. Catania leads by 2 points.2
CataniaIzmir
Score3129
Protected land share 50 km %104
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %6184
Park area within 2 km11 hectares62 hectares
Good for families. Catania leads by 1 points.1
CataniaIzmir
Score3635
Tourist attractions within 2 km256
Park area within 2 km11 hectares62 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Izmir leads by 1 points.1
CataniaIzmir
Score3940
Notable places within 2 km3739
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Izmir leads by 21 points.21
CataniaIzmir
Score6889
Price level global64.935.2
Daily budget€155€100
Year-round weather. Catania leads by 5 points.5
CataniaIzmir
Score7772
Monthly daytime high15.8 °C to 34.5 °C13 °C to 33.9 °C
Monthly rainfall9 mm to 83 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
Catania
16
16
19
21
26
31
34
35
30
26
21
17
Izmir
13
14
17
21
27
31
34
34
29
24
19
14
Sea temperature, °C
Catania
15
15
15
16
18
22
25
26
25
23
20
17
Izmir
16
16
16
17
19
22
23
24
23
21
19
17
Rainfall, mm
Catania
65
45
42
32
18
11
9
9
49
51
71
83
Izmir
119
107
77
51
33
13
1
4
22
55
96
127
Daylight, hours per day
Catania
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Izmir
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Catania
4
5
6
7
9
10
11
10
7
6
5
4
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. Catania: 1991-2020 normals, Catania / Sigonella (18.9 km from centre). Izmir: 1991-2020 normals, Izmir (3.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCataniaIzmir
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 10 m
€166-455
CTA · 4 km
1 h 5 m
€46-55
ADB · 13 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 55 m
€45-94
CTA · 4 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 20 m
€38-50
CTA · 4 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 0 m
€106-144
1 stop
CTA · 4 km
3 h 45 m
€119-184
ADB · 13 km
DusseldorfDUS, NRN
2 h 40 m
€157-220
1 stop
CTA · 4 km
3 h 10 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
VeniceVCE, TSF
1 h 45 m
€49-57
CTA · 4 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 25 m
€101-146
1 stop
CTA · 4 km
3 h 0 m
€204-238
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 35 m
€91-153
1 stop
CTA · 4 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
MunichMUC
2 h 5 m
€195-231
1 stop
CTA · 4 km
2 h 40 m
€185-288
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
2 h 55 m
€157-299
CTA · 4 km
1 h 50 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 2026-08 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

MeasureCataniaIzmir
Official languageItalianTurkish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Turkish Lira (TRY)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+3
Emergency number112112
Elevation7 m2 m
Main airportCatania-Fontanarossa Airport (CTA)4 km from centre95 non-stop destinationsAdnan Menderes International Airport (ADB)13 km from centre120 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureCataniaIzmir
City population311,5844,493,242
People per km²1,7044,760
Museums within 10 km2529
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30
Distinct cuisines in the centre3020
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months5 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.