VacationSelector

Edinburgh or Izmir?

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

Your match

Edinburgh
✓ Best match
58
match

Wins on good for families 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.

EdinburghIzmir
Beaches & swimming. Edinburgh and Izmir are level on 55.
EdinburghIzmir
Score5555
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km204
Coast distance3 km1 km
Water distance3 km1 km
Places to eat. Edinburgh leads by 21 points.21
EdinburghIzmir
Score7049
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,023770
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3512
Museums & heritage. Edinburgh leads by 14 points.14
EdinburghIzmir
Score5743
Museums within 10 km3047
Museums within 2 km of centre2227
Share of museums within 2 km %7357
Unesco sites within 50 km30
Nightlife. Edinburgh leads by 2 points.2
EdinburghIzmir
Score6462
Drinking venues within 4 km1,1931,028
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre884695
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7468
Nightclubs within 4 km6570
Nature & day trips. Edinburgh leads by 6 points.6
EdinburghIzmir
Score3529
Protected land share 50 km %24
Landscape blanket share 50 km %10
Land share of disc %8584
Park area within 2 km166 hectares62 hectares
Good for families. Edinburgh leads by 37 points.37
EdinburghIzmir
Score7235
Tourist attractions within 2 km876
Park area within 2 km166 hectares62 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km02
Sights concentration. Edinburgh leads by 20 points.20
EdinburghIzmir
Score6040
Notable places within 2 km12639
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Izmir leads by 35 points.35
EdinburghIzmir
Score5489
Price level global84.935.2
Daily budget€100
Year-round weather. Izmir leads by 21 points.21
EdinburghIzmir
Score5172
Monthly daytime high6.6 °C to 18.8 °C13 °C to 33.9 °C
Monthly rainfall43 mm to 80 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
Edinburgh
7
7
9
12
14
17
19
19
17
13
9
7
Izmir
13
14
17
21
27
31
34
34
29
24
19
14
Sea temperature, °C
Edinburgh
7
6
6
7
10
12
14
14
13
12
10
8
Izmir
16
16
16
17
19
22
23
24
23
21
19
17
Rainfall, mm
Edinburgh
62
47
47
43
49
63
65
69
55
80
68
63
Izmir
119
107
77
51
33
13
1
4
22
55
96
127
Daylight, hours per day
Edinburgh
8
10
12
14
16
18
17
15
13
11
8
7
Izmir
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Edinburgh
2
3
4
5
6
5
5
5
4
3
3
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. Edinburgh: 1991-2020 normals, Edinburgh Airport (10 km from centre). Izmir: 1991-2020 normals, Izmir (3.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromEdinburghIzmir
IstanbulIST, SAW
4 h 0 m
€201-242
1 stop
EDI · 11 km
1 h 5 m
€46-55
ADB · 13 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 20 m
€41-45
EDI · 11 km
3 h 45 m
€119-184
ADB · 13 km
DusseldorfDUS, NRN
1 h 40 m
no fares
EDI · 11 km
3 h 10 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
AntalyaAYT
4 h 35 m
€195-238
2 stops
EDI · 11 km
1 h 5 m
€75-89
ADB · 13 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€78-108
1 stop
EDI · 11 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
BerlinBER
2 h 0 m
€141-162
1 stop
EDI · 11 km
2 h 55 m
€177-214
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
MunichMUC
2 h 15 m
no fares
EDI · 11 km
2 h 40 m
€185-288
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 20 m
€75-101
1 stop
EDI · 11 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
ViennaVIE
2 h 35 m
€150-240
1 stop
EDI · 11 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
AthensATH
4 h 0 m
no fares
EDI · 11 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
SMI · 83 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

MeasureEdinburghIzmir
Official languageEnglishTurkish
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Turkish Lira (TRY)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+3
Emergency number112 or 999112
Elevation47 m2 m
Main airportEdinburgh Airport (EDI)11 km from centre158 non-stop destinationsAdnan Menderes International Airport (ADB)13 km from centre120 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureEdinburghIzmir
City population488,0504,493,242
People per km²1,8844,760
Museums within 10 km3229
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30
Distinct cuisines in the centre7820
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). 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. 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.