VacationSelector

Glasgow or Izmir?

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

Your match

Glasgow
48
match

Wins on places to eat and sights concentration with your weighting.

Izmir
✓ Best match
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.

GlasgowIzmir
Beaches & swimming. Izmir leads by 19 points.19
GlasgowIzmir
Score3655
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km34
Coast distance3 km1 km
Water distance3 km1 km
Places to eat. Glasgow leads by 14 points.14
GlasgowIzmir
Score6349
Restaurants within 2 km of centre740770
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2912
Museums & heritage. Glasgow leads by 2 points.2
GlasgowIzmir
Score4543
Museums within 10 km3247
Museums within 2 km of centre1327
Share of museums within 2 km %4157
Unesco sites within 50 km20
Nightlife. Glasgow leads by 1 points.1
GlasgowIzmir
Score6362
Drinking venues within 4 km1,0781,028
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre654695
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6168
Nightclubs within 4 km7370
Nature & day trips. Glasgow leads by 9 points.9
GlasgowIzmir
Score3829
Protected land share 50 km %164
Landscape blanket share 50 km %120
Land share of disc %9184
Park area within 2 km56 hectares62 hectares
Good for families. Glasgow leads by 6 points.6
GlasgowIzmir
Score4135
Tourist attractions within 2 km136
Park area within 2 km56 hectares62 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Glasgow leads by 13 points.13
GlasgowIzmir
Score5340
Notable places within 2 km8039
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Izmir leads by 35 points.35
GlasgowIzmir
Score5489
Price level global84.935.2
Daily budget€100
Year-round weather. Izmir leads by 29 points.29
GlasgowIzmir
Score4372
Monthly daytime high6.6 °C to 18.9 °C13 °C to 33.9 °C
Monthly rainfall102 mm to 207 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
Glasgow
7
7
9
12
15
18
19
19
16
13
9
7
Izmir
13
14
17
21
27
31
34
34
29
24
19
14
Sea temperature, °C
Glasgow
8
7
7
8
10
13
15
15
14
12
11
9
Izmir
16
16
16
17
19
22
23
24
23
21
19
17
Rainfall, mm
Glasgow
207
170
147
102
103
111
129
145
132
185
190
205
Izmir
119
107
77
51
33
13
1
4
22
55
96
127
Daylight, hours per day
Glasgow
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
Glasgow
1
2
3
4
5
4
4
4
3
2
2
1
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. Glasgow: 1991-2020 normals, Glasgow Airport (11.5 km from centre). Izmir: 1991-2020 normals, Izmir (3.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromGlasgowIzmir
IstanbulIST, SAW
4 h 0 m
€201-242
1 stop
EDI · 56 km
1 h 5 m
€46-55
ADB · 13 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 20 m
€38-45
GLA · 11 km
3 h 45 m
€119-184
ADB · 13 km
AntalyaAYT
4 h 40 m
€171-239
1 stop
GLA · 11 km
1 h 5 m
€75-89
ADB · 13 km
BerlinBER
2 h 5 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
2 h 55 m
€177-214
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
DusseldorfDUS, NRN
1 h 40 m
no fares
EDI · 56 km
3 h 10 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 30 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
3 h 25 m
€221-272
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 55 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
3 h 0 m
€204-238
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
DublinDUB
1 h 0 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
4 h 15 m
€231-257
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
CologneCGN
1 h 45 m
no fares
EDI · 56 km
3 h 10 m
€173-175
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
StuttgartSTR
2 h 5 m
no fares
EDI · 56 km
2 h 50 m
€165-186
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

MeasureGlasgowIzmir
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
Elevation21 m2 m
Main airportGlasgow Airport (GLA)11 km from centre95 non-stop destinationsAdnan Menderes International Airport (ADB)13 km from centre120 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureGlasgowIzmir
City population626,4104,493,242
People per km²1904,760
Museums within 10 km2929
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Distinct cuisines in the centre5420
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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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.