VacationSelector

Izmir or La Spezia?

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

Your match

Izmir
✓ Best match
53
match

Wins on nightlife and sights concentration with your weighting.

La Spezia
43
match

Wins on nature & day trips and beaches & swimming 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.

IzmirLa Spezia
Beaches & swimming. La Spezia leads by 18 points.18
IzmirLa Spezia
Score5573
Swim season months54
Beaches 10 km432
Coast distance1 km0 km
Water distance1 km0 km
Places to eat. Izmir leads by 18 points.18
IzmirLa Spezia
Score4931
Restaurants within 2 km of centre770235
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1211
Museums & heritage. Izmir leads by 1 points.1
IzmirLa Spezia
Score4342
Museums within 10 km4715
Museums within 2 km of centre2710
Share of museums within 2 km %5767
Unesco sites within 50 km02
Nightlife. Izmir leads by 38 points.38
IzmirLa Spezia
Score6224
Drinking venues within 4 km1,028208
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre695176
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6885
Nightclubs within 4 km701
Nature & day trips. La Spezia leads by 23 points.23
IzmirLa Spezia
Score2952
Protected land share 50 km %413
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %8451
Park area within 2 km62 hectares23 hectares
Good for families. Izmir leads by 15 points.15
IzmirLa Spezia
Score3520
Tourist attractions within 2 km63
Park area within 2 km62 hectares23 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km22
Sights concentration. Izmir leads by 33 points.33
IzmirLa Spezia
Score407
Notable places within 2 km396
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Izmir leads by 21 points.21
IzmirLa Spezia
Score8968
Price level global35.264.9
Daily budget€100€155
Year-round weather. Izmir leads by 2 points.2
IzmirLa Spezia
Score7270
Monthly daytime high13 °C to 33.9 °C11.4 °C to 30.3 °C
Monthly rainfall1 mm to 127 mm32 mm to 132 mm
Dry months52
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
La Spezia
11
13
16
18
23
27
30
30
26
21
16
12
Sea temperature, °C
Izmir
16
16
16
17
19
22
23
24
23
21
19
17
La Spezia
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
Rainfall, mm
Izmir
119
107
77
51
33
13
1
4
22
55
96
127
La Spezia
68
58
59
65
63
41
32
35
102
125
132
95
Daylight, hours per day
Izmir
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
La Spezia
9
10
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Izmir
5
5
7
8
10
11
13
12
10
8
6
4
La Spezia
4
4
6
6
8
9
11
10
7
5
4
3

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Izmir: 1991-2020 normals, Izmir (3.4 km from centre). La Spezia: 1991-2020 normals, Pisa / S. Giusto (64.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromIzmirLa Spezia
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 5 m
€46-55
ADB · 13 km
2 h 25 m
€154-191
1 stop
BLQ · 125 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 45 m
€119-184
ADB · 13 km
2 h 5 m
€48-62
PSA · 65 km
TiranaTIA
1 h 30 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 15 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
GOA · 86 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
3 h 20 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
BerlinBER
2 h 55 m
€177-214
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
1 h 50 m
€119-200
1 stop
PSA · 65 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
3 h 0 m
€204-238
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
3 h 20 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
AmsterdamAMS
3 h 25 m
€221-272
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
1 h 55 m
€210-262
1 stop
PSA · 65 km
ManchesterMAN
3 h 55 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
PSA · 65 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

MeasureIzmirLa Spezia
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
Elevation2 m3 m
Main airportAdnan Menderes International Airport (ADB)13 km from centre120 non-stop destinationsPisa International Airport (PSA)65 km from centre81 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureIzmirLa Spezia
City population4,493,24292,119
People per km²4,7601,792
Museums within 10 km2912
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Distinct cuisines in the centre2022
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months4 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.