VacationSelector

Hong Kong or Izmir?

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

Your match

Hong Kong
✓ Best match
68
match

Wins on places to eat and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Izmir
53
match

Wins on value for money 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.

Hong KongIzmir
Beaches & swimming. Hong Kong leads by 32 points.32
Hong KongIzmir
Score8755
Swim season months85
Beaches 10 km654
Coast distance0 km1 km
Water distance0 km1 km
Places to eat. Hong Kong leads by 39 points.39
Hong KongIzmir
Score8849
Restaurants within 2 km of centre4,325770
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3212
Museums & heritage. Izmir leads by 7 points.7
Hong KongIzmir
Score3643
Museums within 10 km5047
Museums within 2 km of centre1727
Share of museums within 2 km %3457
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Hong Kong leads by 9 points.9
Hong KongIzmir
Score7162
Drinking venues within 4 km1,9481,028
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,154695
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5968
Nightclubs within 4 km3770
Nature & day trips. Hong Kong leads by 35 points.35
Hong KongIzmir
Score6429
Protected land share 50 km %84
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %2984
Park area within 2 km52 hectares62 hectares
Good for families. Hong Kong leads by 23 points.23
Hong KongIzmir
Score5835
Tourist attractions within 2 km276
Park area within 2 km52 hectares62 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km52
Sights concentration. Hong Kong leads by 29 points.29
Hong KongIzmir
Score6940
Notable places within 2 km20439
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Izmir leads by 26 points.26
Hong KongIzmir
Score6389
Price level global7235.2
Daily budget€100
Year-round weather. Hong Kong leads by 2 points.2
Hong KongIzmir
Score7472
Monthly daytime high19.4 °C to 31.3 °C13 °C to 33.9 °C
Monthly rainfall23 mm to 493 mm1 mm to 127 mm
Dry months45
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
Hong Kong
19
20
22
26
29
30
31
31
31
28
25
21
Izmir
13
14
17
21
27
31
34
34
29
24
19
14
Sea temperature, °C
Hong Kong
20
20
21
23
26
28
29
29
28
27
24
21
Izmir
16
16
16
17
19
22
23
24
23
21
19
17
Rainfall, mm
Hong Kong
23
39
70
144
280
493
381
453
331
92
36
31
Izmir
119
107
77
51
33
13
1
4
22
55
96
127
Daylight, hours per day
Hong Kong
11
11
12
13
13
14
13
13
12
12
11
11
Izmir
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Hong Kong
5
3
3
4
5
5
7
6
6
6
6
5
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. Hong Kong: 1991-2020 normals, King's Park (4.4 km from centre). Izmir: 1991-2020 normals, Izmir (3.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromHong KongIzmir
IstanbulIST, SAW
10 h 5 m
no fares
HKG · 25 km
1 h 5 m
€46-55
ADB · 13 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
11 h 25 m
€630-670
1 stop
HKG · 25 km
3 h 0 m
€204-238
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
12 h 0 m
€570-666
1 stop
HKG · 25 km
3 h 45 m
€119-184
ADB · 13 km
MoscowVKO, SVO, DME, ZIA
9 h 5 m
no fares
HKG · 25 km
3 h 15 m
€244-307
1 stop
BJV · 137 km
AmsterdamAMS
11 h 35 m
€637
HKG · 25 km
3 h 25 m
€221-272
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
11 h 55 m
€586-713
1 stop
HKG · 25 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
MunichMUC
11 h 15 m
no fares
HKG · 25 km
2 h 40 m
€185-288
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
7 h 40 m
€472-535
1 stop
HKG · 25 km
4 h 15 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
11 h 40 m
no fares
HKG · 25 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
TashkentTAS
6 h 5 m
no fares
SZX · 54 km
4 h 55 m
€319-343
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

MeasureHong KongIzmir
Official languageStandard ChineseTurkish
CurrencyHong Kong Dollar (HKD)Turkish Lira (TRY)
SocketsG220 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+8UTC+3
Emergency number999112
Elevation7 m2 m
Main airportHong Kong International Airport (HKG)25 km from centre151 non-stop destinationsAdnan Menderes International Airport (ADB)13 km from centre120 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureHong KongIzmir
City population7,413,0704,493,242
People per km²4,760
Museums within 10 km3929
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre7620
Swim season, months above 21 °C8 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). 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.