VacationSelector

Izmir or Liverpool?

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

Your match

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Izmir
53
match

Wins on value for money and year-round weather with your weighting.

Liverpool
55
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.

IzmirLiverpool
Beaches & swimming. Liverpool leads by 5 points.5
IzmirLiverpool
Score5560
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km434
Coast distance1 km2 km
Water distance1 km2 km
Places to eat. Liverpool leads by 11 points.11
IzmirLiverpool
Score4960
Restaurants within 2 km of centre770542
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1232
Museums & heritage. Izmir and Liverpool are level on 43.
IzmirLiverpool
Score4343
Museums within 10 km4723
Museums within 2 km of centre2712
Share of museums within 2 km %5752
Unesco sites within 50 km02
Nightlife. Izmir leads by 1 points.1
IzmirLiverpool
Score6261
Drinking venues within 4 km1,028977
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre695651
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6867
Nightclubs within 4 km7079
Nature & day trips. Liverpool leads by 29 points.29
IzmirLiverpool
Score2958
Protected land share 50 km %4—
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %8460
Park area within 2 km62 hectares81 hectares
Good for families. Liverpool leads by 23 points.23
IzmirLiverpool
Score3558
Tourist attractions within 2 km625
Park area within 2 km62 hectares81 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km23
Sights concentration. Liverpool leads by 10 points.10
IzmirLiverpool
Score4050
Notable places within 2 km3968
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Izmir leads by 35 points.35
IzmirLiverpool
Score8954
Price level global35.284.9
Daily budget€100—
Year-round weather. Izmir leads by 18 points.18
IzmirLiverpool
Score7254
Monthly daytime high13 °C to 33.9 °C7.2 °C to 20.8 °C
Monthly rainfall1 mm to 127 mm51 mm to 95 mm
Dry months50
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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D
Daytime high, °C
Izmir
13
14
17
21
27
31
34
34
29
24
19
14
Liverpool
7
8
10
13
17
19
21
20
18
14
10
8
Sea temperature, °C
Izmir
16
16
16
17
19
22
23
24
23
21
19
17
Liverpool
7
6
7
9
11
14
16
17
16
14
11
9
Rainfall, mm
Izmir
119
107
77
51
33
13
1
4
22
55
96
127
Liverpool
67
62
51
61
59
63
60
73
71
95
86
84
Daylight, hours per day
Izmir
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Liverpool
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Izmir
5
5
7
8
10
11
13
12
10
8
6
4
Liverpool
2
2
3
5
6
6
6
6
4
3
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Izmir: 1991-2020 normals, Izmir (3.4 km from centre). Liverpool: 1991-2020 normals, Manchester Airport (47.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromIzmirLiverpool
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 5 m
€46-55
ADB · 13 km
3 h 50 m
no fares
MAN · 48 km
AntalyaAYT
1 h 5 m
€75-89
ADB · 13 km
4 h 25 m
no fares
LPL · 12 km
KrakowKRK
2 h 20 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
LPL · 12 km
BerlinBER
2 h 55 m
€177-214
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
LPL · 12 km
DusseldorfDUS, NRN
3 h 10 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
MAN · 48 km
ViennaVIE
2 h 20 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
LPL · 12 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
3 h 0 m
€204-238
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
MAN · 48 km
AmsterdamAMS
3 h 25 m
€221-272
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
LPL · 12 km
PraguePRG
2 h 40 m
no fares
SMI · 83 km
2 h 5 m
no fares
LPL · 12 km
BarcelonaBCN
3 h 15 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
LPL · 12 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

MeasureIzmirLiverpool
Official languageTurkishEnglish
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+3UTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112112 or 999
Elevation2 m70 m
Main airportAdnan Menderes International Airport (ADB)13 km from centre120 non-stop destinationsLiverpool John Lennon Airport (LPL)12 km from centre74 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureIzmirLiverpool
City population4,493,242513,441
People per km²4,7604,592
Museums within 10 km2931
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Distinct cuisines in the centre2049
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.