VacationSelector

Copenhagen or Izmir?

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

Your match

Copenhagen
✓ Best match
63
match

Wins on good for families and sights concentration with your weighting.

Izmir
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.

CopenhagenIzmir
Beaches & swimming. Izmir leads by 1 points.1
CopenhagenIzmir
Score5455
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km174
Coast distance1 km1 km
Water distance1 km1 km
Places to eat. Copenhagen leads by 24 points.24
CopenhagenIzmir
Score7349
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,183770
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3712
Museums & heritage. Copenhagen leads by 32 points.32
CopenhagenIzmir
Score7543
Museums within 10 km8347
Museums within 2 km of centre5127
Share of museums within 2 km %6157
Unesco sites within 50 km50
Nightlife. Copenhagen leads by 5 points.5
CopenhagenIzmir
Score6762
Drinking venues within 4 km1,3841,028
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre806695
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5868
Nightclubs within 4 km6470
Nature & day trips. Copenhagen leads by 21 points.21
CopenhagenIzmir
Score5029
Protected land share 50 km %54
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %3984
Park area within 2 km138 hectares62 hectares
Good for families. Copenhagen leads by 36 points.36
CopenhagenIzmir
Score7135
Tourist attractions within 2 km546
Park area within 2 km138 hectares62 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km22
Sights concentration. Copenhagen leads by 34 points.34
CopenhagenIzmir
Score7440
Notable places within 2 km27339
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Izmir leads by 37 points.37
CopenhagenIzmir
Score5289
Price level global87.835.2
Daily budget€214€100
Year-round weather. Izmir leads by 17 points.17
CopenhagenIzmir
Score5572
Monthly daytime high3.6 °C to 22.7 °C13 °C to 33.9 °C
Monthly rainfall28 mm to 74 mm1 mm to 127 mm
Dry months35
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
Copenhagen
4
4
7
12
17
20
23
22
18
13
8
5
Izmir
13
14
17
21
27
31
34
34
29
24
19
14
Sea temperature, °C
Copenhagen
3
2
3
6
10
14
17
18
15
12
9
5
Izmir
16
16
16
17
19
22
23
24
23
21
19
17
Rainfall, mm
Copenhagen
44
32
30
28
47
60
59
74
59
61
49
47
Izmir
119
107
77
51
33
13
1
4
22
55
96
127
Daylight, hours per day
Copenhagen
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
8
7
Izmir
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Copenhagen
No sunshine record
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. Copenhagen: 1991-2020 normals, Koebenhavn / Landbohoejskolen (2.4 km from centre). Izmir: 1991-2020 normals, Izmir (3.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCopenhagenIzmir
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 0 m
€195-237
CPH · 8 km
1 h 5 m
€46-55
ADB · 13 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 50 m
€55-95
CPH · 8 km
3 h 45 m
€119-184
ADB · 13 km
AnkaraESB
3 h 20 m
no fares
CPH · 8 km
1 h 20 m
€54-66
ADB · 13 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 25 m
€167-221
CPH · 8 km
3 h 25 m
€221-272
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
OsloOSL, TRF
1 h 15 m
no fares
CPH · 8 km
3 h 55 m
no fares
SMI · 83 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
1 h 20 m
€90-98
1 stop
CPH · 8 km
3 h 40 m
no fares
SMI · 83 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 30 m
€153-210
1 stop
CPH · 8 km
3 h 0 m
€204-238
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 50 m
€70-135
CPH · 8 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
BerlinBER
1 h 5 m
€62-71
CPH · 8 km
2 h 55 m
€177-214
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
DohaDOH
6 h 5 m
no fares
CPH · 8 km
3 h 45 m
no fares
BJV · 137 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

MeasureCopenhagenIzmir
Official languageDanishTurkish
CurrencyDanish Krone (DKK)Turkish Lira (TRY)
SocketsCEFK230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+3
Emergency number112112
Elevation14 m2 m
Main airportCopenhagen Kastrup Airport (CPH)8 km from centre144 non-stop destinationsAdnan Menderes International Airport (ADB)13 km from centre120 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureCopenhagenIzmir
City population667,0994,493,242
People per km²7,3394,760
Museums within 10 km7229
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km50
Distinct cuisines in the centre8220
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). 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. 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.