VacationSelector

Cork or Izmir?

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

Your match

Cork
38
match

Wins on nature & day trips and places to eat with your weighting.

Izmir
✓ Best match
53
match

Wins on value for money and beaches & swimming 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.

CorkIzmir
Beaches & swimming. Izmir leads by 27 points.27
CorkIzmir
Score2855
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km14
Coast distance3 km1 km
Water distance3 km1 km
Places to eat. Cork leads by 1 points.1
CorkIzmir
Score5049
Restaurants within 2 km of centre224770
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3512
Museums & heritage. Izmir leads by 20 points.20
CorkIzmir
Score2343
Museums within 10 km1047
Museums within 2 km of centre827
Share of museums within 2 km %8057
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Izmir leads by 24 points.24
CorkIzmir
Score3862
Drinking venues within 4 km3611,028
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre292695
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8168
Nightclubs within 4 km970
Nature & day trips. Cork leads by 23 points.23
CorkIzmir
Score5229
Protected land share 50 km %—4
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %7484
Park area within 2 km48 hectares62 hectares
Good for families. Izmir leads by 8 points.8
CorkIzmir
Score2735
Tourist attractions within 2 km76
Park area within 2 km48 hectares62 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km02
Sights concentration. Izmir leads by 18 points.18
CorkIzmir
Score2240
Notable places within 2 km1439
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Izmir leads by 32 points.32
CorkIzmir
Score5789
Price level global80.235.2
Daily budget€187€100
Year-round weather. Izmir leads by 23 points.23
CorkIzmir
Score4972
Monthly daytime high8.3 °C to 18.6 °C13 °C to 33.9 °C
Monthly rainfall78 mm to 140 mm1 mm to 127 mm
Dry months05
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
Cork
8
9
10
12
15
17
19
19
17
13
10
9
Izmir
13
14
17
21
27
31
34
34
29
24
19
14
Sea temperature, °C
Cork
10
9
9
10
12
14
16
16
16
14
12
11
Izmir
16
16
16
17
19
22
23
24
23
21
19
17
Rainfall, mm
Cork
132
100
92
85
78
88
86
98
91
140
125
134
Izmir
119
107
77
51
33
13
1
4
22
55
96
127
Daylight, hours per day
Cork
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Izmir
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Cork
2
2
4
5
6
6
5
5
4
3
2
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. Cork: 1991-2020 normals, Cork Airport (5.6 km from centre). Izmir: 1991-2020 normals, Izmir (3.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCorkIzmir
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 20 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
3 h 45 m
€119-184
ADB · 13 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 45 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
3 h 25 m
€221-272
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 10 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
3 h 55 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
DublinDUB
1 h 0 m
no fares
KIR · 78 km
4 h 15 m
€231-257
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 10 m
no fares
KIR · 78 km
3 h 0 m
€204-238
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
EdinburghEDI
1 h 20 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
4 h 20 m
no fares
BJV · 137 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
MunichMUC
2 h 25 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
2 h 40 m
€185-288
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
WroclawWRO
2 h 45 m
no fares
SNN · 94 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
BJV · 137 km
KrakowKRK
3 h 0 m
no fares
SNN · 94 km
2 h 20 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

MeasureCorkIzmir
Official languageEnglish, IrishTurkish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Turkish Lira (TRY)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+3
Emergency number112112
Elevation0 m2 m
Main airportCork International Airport (ORK)7 km from centre46 non-stop destinationsAdnan Menderes International Airport (ADB)13 km from centre120 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureCorkIzmir
City population222,3334,493,242
People per km²5,9614,760
Museums within 10 km529
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre4920
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). 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.