VacationSelector

Izmir or Maastricht?

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 beaches & swimming and nightlife with your weighting.

Maastricht
41
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.

IzmirMaastricht
Beaches & swimming. Izmir leads by 55 points.55
IzmirMaastricht
Score550
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km46
Coast distance1 km118 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Izmir leads by 1 points.1
IzmirMaastricht
Score4948
Restaurants within 2 km of centre770338
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1222
Museums & heritage. Maastricht leads by 10 points.10
IzmirMaastricht
Score4353
Museums within 10 km4723
Museums within 2 km of centre2713
Share of museums within 2 km %5757
Unesco sites within 50 km05
Nightlife. Izmir leads by 32 points.32
IzmirMaastricht
Score6230
Drinking venues within 4 km1,028223
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre695182
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6882
Nightclubs within 4 km7013
Nature & day trips. Maastricht leads by 8 points.8
IzmirMaastricht
Score2937
Protected land share 50 km %419
Landscape blanket share 50 km %011
Land share of disc %84100
Park area within 2 km62 hectares33 hectares
Good for families. Maastricht leads by 11 points.11
IzmirMaastricht
Score3546
Tourist attractions within 2 km615
Park area within 2 km62 hectares33 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km25
Sights concentration. Izmir leads by 4 points.4
IzmirMaastricht
Score4036
Notable places within 2 km3932
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Izmir leads by 31 points.31
IzmirMaastricht
Score8958
Price level global35.279.2
Daily budget€100€181
Year-round weather. Izmir leads by 13 points.13
IzmirMaastricht
Score7259
Monthly daytime high13 °C to 33.9 °C5.7 °C to 23.8 °C
Monthly rainfall1 mm to 127 mm41 mm to 84 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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Daytime high, °C
Izmir
13
14
17
21
27
31
34
34
29
24
19
14
Maastricht
6
7
11
15
19
22
24
24
20
15
10
6
Sea temperature, °C
Izmir
16
16
16
17
19
22
23
24
23
21
19
17
Maastricht
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Izmir
119
107
77
51
33
13
1
4
22
55
96
127
Maastricht
64
58
55
41
58
69
73
84
58
65
62
74
Daylight, hours per day
Izmir
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Maastricht
9
10
12
14
16
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Izmir
5
5
7
8
10
11
13
12
10
8
6
4
Maastricht
2
3
5
6
7
7
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). Maastricht: 1991-2020 normals, Maastricht Airport Zuid Limburg (10 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromIzmirMaastricht
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 5 m
€46-55
ADB · 13 km
3 h 10 m
no fares
EIN · 70 km
AnkaraESB
1 h 20 m
€54-66
ADB · 13 km
3 h 25 m
no fares
DUS · 90 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 45 m
€119-184
ADB · 13 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
EIN · 70 km
BudapestBUD
2 h 5 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
1 h 55 m
€106-231
EIN · 70 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
2 h 45 m
€232-282
2 stops
BJV · 137 km
1 h 55 m
€123-157
1 stop
EIN · 70 km
SofiaSOF
1 h 20 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
2 h 40 m
€98-110
EIN · 70 km
KrakowKRK
2 h 20 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
1 h 50 m
€109-130
1 stop
EIN · 70 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 15 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
2 h 5 m
no fares
EIN · 70 km
AntalyaAYT
1 h 5 m
€75-89
ADB · 13 km
3 h 40 m
no fares
MST · 9 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 40 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
EIN · 70 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

MeasureIzmirMaastricht
Official languageTurkishDutch
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112 or 911
Elevation2 m49 m
Main airportAdnan Menderes International Airport (ADB)13 km from centre120 non-stop destinationsMaastricht Aachen Airport (MST)9 km from centre5 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureIzmirMaastricht
City population4,493,242120,227
People per km²4,7602,000
Museums within 10 km2921
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km05
Distinct cuisines in the centre2033
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.