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Clearwater Beach in evening light, with its hotels and pier, Clearwater
ClearwaterClearwater Beach in evening light, with its hotels and pier
Ferries off the Kordon promenade, Izmir
IzmirFerries off the Kordon promenade

Photos: Clearwater by ajay_suresh, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Izmir by Toygar Par, Pexels License.

Clearwater or Izmir?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Clearwater for

  • beaches
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Clearwater’s own page.

Choose Izmir for

  • culture and sights
  • getting around
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on Izmir’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Clearwater 90, Izmir 62: Clearwater leads by 28 points.
Food & drink. Clearwater 38, Izmir 72: Izmir leads by 34 points.
Culture & sights. Clearwater 18, Izmir 55: Izmir leads by 37 points.
Nightlife. Clearwater 34, Izmir 60: Izmir leads by 26 points.
Nature & outdoors. Clearwater 55, Izmir 66: Izmir leads by 11 points.
Day trips. Clearwater 58, Izmir 86: Izmir leads by 28 points.
Good for families. Clearwater 78, Izmir 55: Clearwater leads by 23 points.
Getting around. Clearwater 28, Izmir 63: Izmir leads by 35 points.
Shopping & style. Clearwater 27, Izmir 55: Izmir leads by 28 points.
Affordability. Clearwater 35, Izmir 66: Izmir leads by 31 points.
Live music & performing arts. Clearwater 36, Izmir 48: Izmir leads by 12 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Clearwater 40, Izmir 57: Izmir leads by 17 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Clearwater and Izmir.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Clearwater
45match

Wins on beaches and families with your weighting.

Izmir
Best match
62match

Wins on culture and sights and getting around with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Clearwater in July

32 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
188 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
30 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Izmir in July

34 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
13 hsunshine a day
23 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Clearwater has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Clearwater's sunshine is measured 26 km from the centre, at Tampa International Airport.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Clearwater: 2006-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Saint Petersburg / High Point (12.7 km from centre). Izmir: 1991-2020 normals, Izmir (3.4 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureClearwaterIzmir
Official language-Turkish
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Turkish Lira (TRY)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+3
Emergency number911112
Elevation9 m2 m
Main airportSt. Petersburg Clearwater International Airport (PIE)13 km from centre60 non-stop destinationsAdnan Menderes International Airport (ADB)13 km from centre120 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureClearwaterIzmir
City population117,2924,493,242
People per km²1,1544,760
Museums within 10 km429
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C8 months5 months

Where else could you go?

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. 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.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.