VacationSelector

Izmir or London?

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 value for money with your weighting.

London
✓ Best match
64
match

Wins on sights concentration 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.

IzmirLondon
Beaches & swimming. Izmir leads by 55 points.55
IzmirLondon
Score550
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km447
Coast distance1 km43 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. London leads by 39 points.39
IzmirLondon
Score4988
Restaurants within 2 km of centre7703,317
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1240
Museums & heritage. London leads by 29 points.29
IzmirLondon
Score4372
Museums within 10 km47148
Museums within 2 km of centre2749
Share of museums within 2 km %5733
Unesco sites within 50 km04
Nightlife. London leads by 33 points.33
IzmirLondon
Score6295
Drinking venues within 4 km1,0285,327
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre6952,443
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6846
Nightclubs within 4 km70312
Nature & day trips. London leads by 11 points.11
IzmirLondon
Score2940
Protected land share 50 km %416
Landscape blanket share 50 km %014
Land share of disc %8497
Park area within 2 km62 hectares84 hectares
Good for families. London leads by 40 points.40
IzmirLondon
Score3575
Tourist attractions within 2 km685
Park area within 2 km62 hectares84 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km23
Sights concentration. London leads by 49 points.49
IzmirLondon
Score4089
Notable places within 2 km39649
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Izmir leads by 35 points.35
IzmirLondon
Score8954
Price level global35.284.9
Daily budget€100
Year-round weather. Izmir leads by 9 points.9
IzmirLondon
Score7263
Monthly daytime high13 °C to 33.9 °C8.2 °C to 23.8 °C
Monthly rainfall1 mm to 127 mm38 mm to 67 mm
Dry months51
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
London
8
9
12
15
18
22
24
23
20
16
11
9
Sea temperature, °C
Izmir
16
16
16
17
19
22
23
24
23
21
19
17
London
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Izmir
119
107
77
51
33
13
1
4
22
55
96
127
London
59
45
38
43
46
47
46
53
51
64
67
57
Daylight, hours per day
Izmir
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
London
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Izmir
5
5
7
8
10
11
13
12
10
8
6
4
London
2
3
4
6
6
6
7
6
5
4
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). London: 1991-2020 normals, London Heathrow Airport (22.5 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromIzmirLondon
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 5 m
€46-55
ADB · 13 km
3 h 35 m
no fares
LHR · 23 km
AnkaraESB
1 h 20 m
€54-66
ADB · 13 km
4 h 0 m
no fares
STN · 49 km
AntalyaAYT
1 h 5 m
€75-89
ADB · 13 km
4 h 5 m
€144-189
LGW · 40 km
AthensATH
1 h 0 m
no fares
SMI · 83 km
3 h 30 m
€258-349
1 stop
LHR · 23 km
AmsterdamAMS
3 h 25 m
€221-272
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
1 h 5 m
€146-170
LHR · 23 km
DusseldorfDUS, NRN
3 h 10 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
LHR · 23 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
3 h 20 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
1 h 5 m
€92-144
LHR · 23 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
3 h 0 m
€204-238
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
LHR · 23 km
BakuGYD
3 h 0 m
€237-313
ADB · 13 km
5 h 20 m
no fares
LHR · 23 km
TashkentTAS
4 h 55 m
€319-343
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
6 h 50 m
no fares
LGW · 40 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

MeasureIzmirLondon
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 m4 m
Main airportAdnan Menderes International Airport (ADB)13 km from centre120 non-stop destinationsLondon Heathrow Airport (LHR)23 km from centre220 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureIzmirLondon
City population4,493,2428,799,728
People per km²4,7605,598
Museums within 10 km29215
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km04
Distinct cuisines in the centre20116
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.