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Dublin 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, 2 points apart

Dublin
55
match

Wins on sights concentration and places to eat 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.

DublinIzmir
Beaches & swimming. Izmir leads by 6 points.6
DublinIzmir
Score4955
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km114
Coast distance3 km1 km
Water distance3 km1 km
Places to eat. Dublin leads by 21 points.21
DublinIzmir
Score7049
Restaurants within 2 km of centre920770
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3712
Museums & heritage. Dublin leads by 12 points.12
DublinIzmir
Score5543
Museums within 10 km4747
Museums within 2 km of centre3727
Share of museums within 2 km %7957
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Dublin leads by 2 points.2
DublinIzmir
Score6462
Drinking venues within 4 km1,2391,028
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre934695
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7568
Nightclubs within 4 km4070
Nature & day trips. Izmir leads by 3 points.3
DublinIzmir
Score2629
Protected land share 50 km %34
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %6284
Park area within 2 km43 hectares62 hectares
Good for families. Dublin leads by 19 points.19
DublinIzmir
Score5435
Tourist attractions within 2 km416
Park area within 2 km43 hectares62 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Dublin leads by 22 points.22
DublinIzmir
Score6240
Notable places within 2 km14139
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Izmir leads by 32 points.32
DublinIzmir
Score5789
Price level global80.235.2
Daily budget€187€100
Year-round weather. Izmir leads by 18 points.18
DublinIzmir
Score5472
Monthly daytime high8.2 °C to 19.5 °C13 °C to 33.9 °C
Monthly rainfall52 mm to 83 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
Dublin
8
9
10
12
15
18
20
19
17
14
10
8
Izmir
13
14
17
21
27
31
34
34
29
24
19
14
Sea temperature, °C
Dublin
9
8
8
9
11
13
15
15
15
13
12
11
Izmir
16
16
16
17
19
22
23
24
23
21
19
17
Rainfall, mm
Dublin
62
52
52
55
58
65
62
74
61
78
83
72
Izmir
119
107
77
51
33
13
1
4
22
55
96
127
Daylight, hours per day
Dublin
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
Izmir
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Dublin
2
3
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. Dublin: 1991-2020 normals, Dublin Airport (9.3 km from centre). Izmir: 1991-2020 normals, Izmir (3.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromDublinIzmir
IstanbulIST, SAW
4 h 5 m
€183-239
DUB · 9 km
1 h 5 m
€46-55
ADB · 13 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 10 m
€33-43
DUB · 9 km
3 h 45 m
€119-184
ADB · 13 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 35 m
€80-139
DUB · 9 km
3 h 25 m
€221-272
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 35 m
€43-47
DUB · 9 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 0 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
3 h 55 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 55 m
€113-161
1 stop
DUB · 9 km
3 h 0 m
€204-238
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
DusseldorfDUS, NRN
1 h 45 m
€133-185
1 stop
DUB · 9 km
3 h 10 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
BerlinBER
2 h 15 m
€77-134
DUB · 9 km
2 h 55 m
€177-214
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
MunichMUC
2 h 15 m
€200-272
1 stop
DUB · 9 km
2 h 40 m
€185-288
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
7 h 40 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
4 h 15 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 2026-09 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

MeasureDublinIzmir
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
Elevation20 m2 m
Main airportDublin Airport (DUB)9 km from centre201 non-stop destinationsAdnan Menderes International Airport (ADB)13 km from centre120 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureDublinIzmir
City population592,7134,493,242
People per km²5,1544,760
Museums within 10 km4029
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre7420
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.