VacationSelector

Faro or Izmir?

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

Your match

Faro
47
match

Wins on nature & day trips and year-round weather with your weighting.

Izmir
✓ Best match
53
match

Wins on nightlife and museums & heritage 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.

FaroIzmir
Beaches & swimming. Faro leads by 6 points.6
FaroIzmir
Score6155
Swim season months35
Beaches 10 km134
Coast distance0 km1 km
Water distance0 km1 km
Places to eat. Izmir leads by 5 points.5
FaroIzmir
Score4449
Restaurants within 2 km of centre255770
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2212
Museums & heritage. Izmir leads by 21 points.21
FaroIzmir
Score2243
Museums within 10 km947
Museums within 2 km of centre827
Share of museums within 2 km %8957
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Izmir leads by 41 points.41
FaroIzmir
Score2162
Drinking venues within 4 km1431,028
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre123695
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8668
Nightclubs within 4 km870
Nature & day trips. Faro leads by 28 points.28
FaroIzmir
Score5729
Protected land share 50 km %114
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %4284
Park area within 2 km34 hectares62 hectares
Good for families. Faro leads by 1 points.1
FaroIzmir
Score3635
Tourist attractions within 2 km106
Park area within 2 km34 hectares62 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km22
Sights concentration. Izmir leads by 18 points.18
FaroIzmir
Score2240
Notable places within 2 km1439
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Izmir leads by 15 points.15
FaroIzmir
Score7489
Price level global55.935.2
Daily budget€109€100
Year-round weather. Faro leads by 11 points.11
FaroIzmir
Score8372
Monthly daytime high16.3 °C to 29 °C13 °C to 33.9 °C
Monthly rainfall1 mm to 102 mm1 mm to 127 mm
Dry months65
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
Faro
16
17
19
21
24
27
29
29
26
23
19
17
Izmir
13
14
17
21
27
31
34
34
29
24
19
14
Sea temperature, °C
Faro
17
16
16
17
18
20
21
22
21
21
19
17
Izmir
16
16
16
17
19
22
23
24
23
21
19
17
Rainfall, mm
Faro
55
39
44
40
23
6
1
5
28
57
75
102
Izmir
119
107
77
51
33
13
1
4
22
55
96
127
Daylight, hours per day
Faro
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
13
11
10
10
Izmir
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Faro
6
6
8
9
10
12
12
11
9
8
6
6
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. Faro: 1991-2020 normals, Faro / Aeroporto (2.8 km from centre). Izmir: 1991-2020 normals, Izmir (3.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromFaroIzmir
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 40 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
3 h 45 m
€119-184
ADB · 13 km
DublinDUB
2 h 50 m
€75-114
FAO · 3 km
4 h 15 m
€231-257
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 50 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
3 h 55 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
DusseldorfDUS, NRN
3 h 0 m
€138-208
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
3 h 10 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 30 m
€126-204
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
3 h 0 m
€137-201
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
3 h 0 m
€204-238
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
AmsterdamAMS
3 h 0 m
€144-189
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
3 h 25 m
€221-272
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
2 h 50 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
BristolBRS
2 h 35 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
4 h 0 m
no fares
BJV · 137 km
CologneCGN
3 h 0 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
3 h 10 m
€173-175
1 stop
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

MeasureFaroIzmir
Official languagePortugueseTurkish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Turkish Lira (TRY)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+3
Emergency number112112
Elevation10 m2 m
Main airportFaro - Gago Coutinho International Airport (FAO)3 km from centre91 non-stop destinationsAdnan Menderes International Airport (ADB)13 km from centre120 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureFaroIzmir
City population64,5604,493,242
People per km²3194,760
Museums within 10 km229
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre3420
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 months5 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.