VacationSelector

Hamburg 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, level with your weighting

Hamburg
53
match

Wins on good for families and places to eat with your weighting.

Izmir
53
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and value for money 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.

HamburgIzmir
Beaches & swimming. Izmir leads by 55 points.55
HamburgIzmir
Score055
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km164
Coast distance22 km1 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Hamburg leads by 24 points.24
HamburgIzmir
Score7349
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,150770
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3812
Museums & heritage. Hamburg leads by 17 points.17
HamburgIzmir
Score6043
Museums within 10 km9447
Museums within 2 km of centre5027
Share of museums within 2 km %5357
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Hamburg leads by 6 points.6
HamburgIzmir
Score6862
Drinking venues within 4 km1,3391,028
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre834695
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6268
Nightclubs within 4 km11970
Nature & day trips. Hamburg leads by 11 points.11
HamburgIzmir
Score4029
Protected land share 50 km %144
Landscape blanket share 50 km %100
Land share of disc %9984
Park area within 2 km89 hectares62 hectares
Good for families. Hamburg leads by 25 points.25
HamburgIzmir
Score6035
Tourist attractions within 2 km406
Park area within 2 km89 hectares62 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Hamburg leads by 19 points.19
HamburgIzmir
Score5940
Notable places within 2 km11839
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Izmir leads by 29 points.29
HamburgIzmir
Score6089
Price level global75.935.2
Daily budget€163€100
Year-round weather. Izmir leads by 17 points.17
HamburgIzmir
Score5572
Monthly daytime high4.3 °C to 23.2 °C13 °C to 33.9 °C
Monthly rainfall39 mm to 82 mm1 mm to 127 mm
Dry months15
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
Hamburg
4
5
9
14
18
21
23
23
19
14
8
5
Izmir
13
14
17
21
27
31
34
34
29
24
19
14
Sea temperature, °C
Hamburg
No coastline within reach
Izmir
16
16
16
17
19
22
23
24
23
21
19
17
Rainfall, mm
Hamburg
67
55
57
39
58
74
82
77
65
63
61
72
Izmir
119
107
77
51
33
13
1
4
22
55
96
127
Daylight, hours per day
Hamburg
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
Hamburg
1
2
4
6
7
7
7
7
5
4
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. Hamburg: 1991-2020 normals, Hamburg Airport (9.3 km from centre). Izmir: 1991-2020 normals, Izmir (3.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromHamburgIzmir
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 0 m
€178-237
HAM · 9 km
1 h 5 m
€46-55
ADB · 13 km
MunichMUC
1 h 20 m
€195-270
HAM · 9 km
2 h 40 m
€185-288
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 10 m
no fares
HAM · 9 km
3 h 0 m
€204-238
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 35 m
€89-225
HAM · 9 km
3 h 45 m
€119-184
ADB · 13 km
AnkaraESB
3 h 20 m
no fares
HAM · 9 km
1 h 20 m
€54-66
ADB · 13 km
AntalyaAYT
3 h 35 m
€162-200
HAM · 9 km
1 h 5 m
€75-89
ADB · 13 km
ZurichZRH
1 h 30 m
€216-237
1 stop
HAM · 9 km
2 h 50 m
€161-180
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 35 m
€167-214
1 stop
HAM · 9 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
StuttgartSTR
1 h 20 m
no fares
HAM · 9 km
2 h 50 m
€165-186
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 25 m
€357-416
HAM · 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 2026-08 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

MeasureHamburgIzmir
Official languageGermanTurkish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Turkish Lira (TRY)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+3
Emergency number112112
Elevation6 m2 m
Main airportHamburg Helmut Schmidt Airport (HAM)9 km from centre119 non-stop destinationsAdnan Menderes International Airport (ADB)13 km from centre120 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureHamburgIzmir
City population1,910,1604,493,242
People per km²2,5304,760
Museums within 10 km7729
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre8320
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 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. 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.