VacationSelector

Izmir or Lisbon?

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 value for money with your weighting.

Lisbon
✓ Best match
68
match

Wins on good for families and places to eat 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.

IzmirLisbon
Beaches & swimming. Lisbon leads by 2 points.2
IzmirLisbon
Score5557
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km424
Coast distance1 km2 km
Water distance1 km2 km
Places to eat. Lisbon leads by 31 points.31
IzmirLisbon
Score4980
Restaurants within 2 km of centre7702,496
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1231
Museums & heritage. Lisbon leads by 27 points.27
IzmirLisbon
Score4370
Museums within 10 km47124
Museums within 2 km of centre2754
Share of museums within 2 km %5744
Unesco sites within 50 km03
Nightlife. Lisbon leads by 3 points.3
IzmirLisbon
Score6265
Drinking venues within 4 km1,0281,225
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre695956
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6878
Nightclubs within 4 km7065
Nature & day trips. Lisbon leads by 27 points.27
IzmirLisbon
Score2956
Protected land share 50 km %411
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %8454
Park area within 2 km62 hectares77 hectares
Good for families. Lisbon leads by 34 points.34
IzmirLisbon
Score3569
Tourist attractions within 2 km682
Park area within 2 km62 hectares77 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km21
Sights concentration. Lisbon leads by 26 points.26
IzmirLisbon
Score4066
Notable places within 2 km39169
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Izmir leads by 15 points.15
IzmirLisbon
Score8974
Price level global35.255.9
Daily budget€100€109
Year-round weather. Lisbon leads by 6 points.6
IzmirLisbon
Score7278
Monthly daytime high13 °C to 33.9 °C14.9 °C to 28.4 °C
Monthly rainfall1 mm to 127 mm3 mm to 121 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
Lisbon
15
16
19
20
23
26
28
28
26
23
18
15
Sea temperature, °C
Izmir
16
16
16
17
19
22
23
24
23
21
19
17
Lisbon
15
15
15
15
16
18
18
19
19
18
17
16
Rainfall, mm
Izmir
119
107
77
51
33
13
1
4
22
55
96
127
Lisbon
104
73
72
67
53
13
3
7
36
108
121
102
Daylight, hours per day
Izmir
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Lisbon
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Izmir
5
5
7
8
10
11
13
12
10
8
6
4
Lisbon
5
6
7
8
10
11
12
11
8
7
5
5

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Izmir: 1991-2020 normals, Izmir (3.4 km from centre). Lisbon: 1991-2020 normals, Lisboa / Geof (1.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromIzmirLisbon
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 5 m
€46-55
ADB · 13 km
4 h 25 m
€212-255
LIS · 7 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 45 m
€119-184
ADB · 13 km
2 h 30 m
€112-185
LIS · 7 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
3 h 20 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
2 h 25 m
€118-145
LIS · 7 km
AnkaraESB
1 h 20 m
€54-66
ADB · 13 km
4 h 55 m
no fares
LIS · 7 km
MadridMAD
3 h 45 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
1 h 15 m
€64-74
LIS · 7 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
3 h 0 m
€204-238
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
2 h 50 m
€164-250
1 stop
LIS · 7 km
AmsterdamAMS
3 h 25 m
€221-272
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
2 h 50 m
€167-189
LIS · 7 km
BarcelonaBCN
3 h 15 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
1 h 50 m
€74-97
LIS · 7 km
DusseldorfDUS, NRN
3 h 10 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
2 h 50 m
€188-252
1 stop
LIS · 7 km
MunichMUC
2 h 40 m
€185-288
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
3 h 0 m
€222-263
1 stop
LIS · 7 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

MeasureIzmirLisbon
Official languageTurkishPortuguese
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation2 m100 m
Main airportAdnan Menderes International Airport (ADB)13 km from centre120 non-stop destinationsLisbon Humberto Delgado Airport (LIS)7 km from centre153 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureIzmirLisbon
City population4,493,242545,796
People per km²4,7605,453
Museums within 10 km2978
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Distinct cuisines in the centre20106
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 monthsNone

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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.