VacationSelector

Istanbul or Verona?

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

Your match

Istanbul
✓ Best match
65
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nightlife with your weighting.

Verona
48
match

Wins on nature & day trips and good for families 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.

IstanbulVerona
Beaches & swimming. Istanbul leads by 43 points.43
IstanbulVerona
Score430
Swim season months30
Beaches 10 km22
Coast distance0 km104 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Istanbul leads by 27 points.27
IstanbulVerona
Score7043
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2,086477
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2013
Museums & heritage. Istanbul leads by 10 points.10
IstanbulVerona
Score6656
Museums within 10 km14520
Museums within 2 km of centre7119
Share of museums within 2 km %4995
Unesco sites within 50 km15
Nightlife. Istanbul leads by 39 points.39
IstanbulVerona
Score7940
Drinking venues within 4 km2,266416
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,176269
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5265
Nightclubs within 4 km2219
Nature & day trips. Verona leads by 11 points.11
IstanbulVerona
Score2536
Protected land share 50 km %19
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %48100
Park area within 2 km60 hectares59 hectares
Good for families. Verona leads by 2 points.2
IstanbulVerona
Score6769
Tourist attractions within 2 km6862
Park area within 2 km60 hectares59 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km24
Sights concentration. Istanbul leads by 22 points.22
IstanbulVerona
Score7553
Notable places within 2 km28582
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Istanbul leads by 21 points.21
IstanbulVerona
Score8968
Price level global35.264.9
Daily budget€100€155
Year-round weather. Istanbul leads by 4 points.4
IstanbulVerona
Score6965
Monthly daytime high9.2 °C to 29.7 °C6.8 °C to 30.3 °C
Monthly rainfall23 mm to 101 mm38 mm to 85 mm
Dry months41
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
Istanbul
9
10
12
17
22
27
30
30
26
21
16
11
Verona
7
10
14
18
24
28
30
30
25
19
12
8
Sea temperature, °C
Istanbul
9
8
9
11
16
21
23
24
22
19
15
12
Verona
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Istanbul
74
74
66
47
29
29
23
29
43
85
79
101
Verona
43
38
44
72
68
72
62
67
85
77
78
56
Daylight, hours per day
Istanbul
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Verona
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Istanbul
3
3
5
6
9
10
11
10
7
5
4
2
Verona
3
4
6
6
8
9
10
9
7
4
3
3

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Istanbul: 1991-2020 normals, Istanbul / Goztepe (9.9 km from centre). Verona: 1991-2020 normals, Verona / Villafranca (11.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromIstanbulVerona
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 35 m
€110-186
IST · 36 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
VRN · 10 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
4 h 15 m
€177-220
IST · 36 km
5 h 55 m
€366-421
2 stops
VCE · 106 km
CataniaCTA
2 h 10 m
no fares
IST · 36 km
1 h 45 m
€40-90
VRN · 10 km
BucharestOTP, BBU
1 h 10 m
€106-133
IST · 36 km
1 h 55 m
€50-66
TSF · 96 km
ViennaVIE
2 h 5 m
no fares
IST · 36 km
1 h 10 m
€65-121
VCE · 106 km
PalermoPMO
2 h 15 m
no fares
IST · 36 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
VRN · 10 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
10 h 5 m
€608-794
IST · 36 km
8 h 30 m
€637-650
VCE · 106 km
BerlinBER
2 h 40 m
€125-140
IST · 36 km
1 h 35 m
€99-129
VCE · 106 km
MaleMLE
7 h 50 m
no fares
IST · 36 km
9 h 35 m
no fares
VRN · 10 km
CancunCUN
12 h 55 m
no fares
IST · 36 km
11 h 10 m
no fares
VRN · 10 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

MeasureIstanbulVerona
Official languageTurkishItalian
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation100 m59 m
Main airportİstanbul Airport (IST)36 km from centre345 non-stop destinationsVerona Villafranca Valerio Catullo Airport (VRN)10 km from centre86 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureIstanbulVerona
City population15,655,924255,588
People per km²2,9301,285
Museums within 10 km7218
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km15
Distinct cuisines in the centre6235
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 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). 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. 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.