VacationSelector

Izmir or Manchester?

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 value for money and beaches & swimming with your weighting.

Manchester
47
match

Wins on places to eat and sights concentration 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.

IzmirManchester
Beaches & swimming. Izmir leads by 27 points.27
IzmirManchester
Score5528
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km410
Coast distance1 km27 km
Water distance1 km27 km
Places to eat. Manchester leads by 19 points.19
IzmirManchester
Score4968
Restaurants within 2 km of centre770853
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1235
Museums & heritage. Izmir leads by 1 points.1
IzmirManchester
Score4342
Museums within 10 km4723
Museums within 2 km of centre2711
Share of museums within 2 km %5748
Unesco sites within 50 km02
Nightlife. Izmir and Manchester are level on 62.
IzmirManchester
Score6262
Drinking venues within 4 km1,0281,029
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre695792
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6877
Nightclubs within 4 km7082
Nature & day trips. Manchester leads by 7 points.7
IzmirManchester
Score2936
Protected land share 50 km %417
Landscape blanket share 50 km %017
Land share of disc %8499
Park area within 2 km62 hectares63 hectares
Good for families. Izmir leads by 3 points.3
IzmirManchester
Score3532
Tourist attractions within 2 km65
Park area within 2 km62 hectares63 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km22
Sights concentration. Manchester leads by 8 points.8
IzmirManchester
Score4048
Notable places within 2 km3961
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Izmir leads by 35 points.35
IzmirManchester
Score8954
Price level global35.284.9
Daily budget€100—
Year-round weather. Izmir leads by 18 points.18
IzmirManchester
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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Daytime high, °C
Izmir
13
14
17
21
27
31
34
34
29
24
19
14
Manchester
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
Manchester
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
Manchester
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
Manchester
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
Manchester
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). Manchester: 1991-2020 normals, Manchester Airport (14.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromIzmirManchester
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 5 m
€46-55
ADB · 13 km
3 h 50 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
BerlinBER
2 h 55 m
€177-214
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
1 h 55 m
€352-493
2 stops
MAN · 15 km
MunichMUC
2 h 40 m
€185-288
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
OsloOSL, TRF
3 h 55 m
no fares
SMI · 83 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
DusseldorfDUS, NRN
3 h 10 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
AntalyaAYT
1 h 5 m
€75-89
ADB · 13 km
4 h 20 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
3 h 20 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
3 h 0 m
€204-238
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
CopenhagenCPH
3 h 10 m
no fares
MJT · 86 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
ViennaVIE
2 h 20 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
MAN · 15 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

MeasureIzmirManchester
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 m38 m
Main airportAdnan Menderes International Airport (ADB)13 km from centre120 non-stop destinationsManchester Airport (MAN)15 km from centre210 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureIzmirManchester
City population4,493,242547,627
People per km²4,7604,737
Museums within 10 km2928
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Distinct cuisines in the centre2063
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.