VacationSelector

Izmir or Krakow?

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

Your match

Izmir
53
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and year-round weather with your weighting.

Krakow
✓ Best match
58
match

Wins on good for families 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.

IzmirKrakow
Beaches & swimming. Izmir leads by 55 points.55
IzmirKrakow
Score550
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km49
Coast distance1 km456 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Krakow leads by 19 points.19
IzmirKrakow
Score4968
Restaurants within 2 km of centre7701,032
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1230
Museums & heritage. Krakow leads by 32 points.32
IzmirKrakow
Score4375
Museums within 10 km4784
Museums within 2 km of centre2769
Share of museums within 2 km %5782
Unesco sites within 50 km04
Nightlife. Izmir leads by 5 points.5
IzmirKrakow
Score6257
Drinking venues within 4 km1,028836
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre695697
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6883
Nightclubs within 4 km7054
Nature & day trips. Krakow leads by 17 points.17
IzmirKrakow
Score2946
Protected land share 50 km %414
Landscape blanket share 50 km %01
Land share of disc %84100
Park area within 2 km62 hectares79 hectares
Good for families. Krakow leads by 39 points.39
IzmirKrakow
Score3574
Tourist attractions within 2 km677
Park area within 2 km62 hectares79 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km24
Sights concentration. Krakow leads by 28 points.28
IzmirKrakow
Score4068
Notable places within 2 km39198
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Izmir leads by 10 points.10
IzmirKrakow
Score8979
Price level global35.249
Daily budget€100€133
Year-round weather. Izmir leads by 14 points.14
IzmirKrakow
Score7258
Monthly daytime high13 °C to 33.9 °C1.5 °C to 25.3 °C
Monthly rainfall1 mm to 127 mm31 mm to 100 mm
Dry months54
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
Izmir
13
14
17
21
27
31
34
34
29
24
19
14
Krakow
2
4
8
15
20
23
25
25
19
14
8
3
Sea temperature, °C
Izmir
16
16
16
17
19
22
23
24
23
21
19
17
Krakow
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Izmir
119
107
77
51
33
13
1
4
22
55
96
127
Krakow
38
31
38
47
79
77
100
75
67
51
41
35
Daylight, hours per day
Izmir
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Krakow
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Izmir
5
5
7
8
10
11
13
12
10
8
6
4
Krakow
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Izmir: 1991-2020 normals, Izmir (3.4 km from centre). Krakow: 1991-2020 normals, Krakow (10.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromIzmirKrakow
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 5 m
€46-55
ADB · 13 km
2 h 5 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 45 m
€119-184
ADB · 13 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
AnkaraESB
1 h 20 m
€54-66
ADB · 13 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
3 h 0 m
€204-238
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
OsloOSL, TRF
3 h 55 m
no fares
SMI · 83 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
MunichMUC
2 h 40 m
€185-288
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
3 h 20 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
AntalyaAYT
1 h 5 m
€75-89
ADB · 13 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 40 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
4 h 15 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
5 h 30 m
no fares
KRK · 11 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

MeasureIzmirKrakow
Official languageTurkishPolish
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Zloty (PLN)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCE50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation2 m219 m
Main airportAdnan Menderes International Airport (ADB)13 km from centre120 non-stop destinationsKraków John Paul II International Airport (KRK)11 km from centre133 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureIzmirKrakow
City population4,493,242804,237
People per km²4,7602,459
Museums within 10 km29114
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km04
Distinct cuisines in the centre2068
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. 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.