VacationSelector

Izmir or Melbourne?

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.

Melbourne
✓ Best match
60
match

Wins on places to eat 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.

IzmirMelbourne
Beaches & swimming. Izmir and Melbourne are level on 55.
IzmirMelbourne
Score5555
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km419
Coast distance1 km4 km
Water distance1 km4 km
Places to eat. Melbourne leads by 26 points.26
IzmirMelbourne
Score4975
Restaurants within 2 km of centre7701,888
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1229
Museums & heritage. Melbourne leads by 6 points.6
IzmirMelbourne
Score4349
Museums within 10 km4742
Museums within 2 km of centre2724
Share of museums within 2 km %5757
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Melbourne leads by 12 points.12
IzmirMelbourne
Score6274
Drinking venues within 4 km1,0281,921
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre6951,200
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6862
Nightclubs within 4 km70124
Nature & day trips. Melbourne leads by 14 points.14
IzmirMelbourne
Score2943
Protected land share 50 km %46
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %8481
Park area within 2 km62 hectares166 hectares
Good for families. Melbourne leads by 25 points.25
IzmirMelbourne
Score3560
Tourist attractions within 2 km626
Park area within 2 km62 hectares166 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km21
Sights concentration. Melbourne leads by 17 points.17
IzmirMelbourne
Score4057
Notable places within 2 km39103
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Izmir leads by 39 points.39
IzmirMelbourne
Score8950
Price level global35.290.2
Daily budget€100—
Year-round weather. Melbourne leads by 4 points.4
IzmirMelbourne
Score7276
Monthly daytime high13 °C to 33.9 °C13.6 °C to 26.8 °C
Monthly rainfall1 mm to 127 mm45 mm to 69 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
Melbourne
27
27
24
20
17
14
14
15
17
20
22
25
Sea temperature, °C
Izmir
16
16
16
17
19
22
23
24
23
21
19
17
Melbourne
20
21
20
18
15
13
12
11
12
14
17
19
Rainfall, mm
Izmir
119
107
77
51
33
13
1
4
22
55
96
127
Melbourne
46
48
45
58
50
58
46
52
60
56
69
65
Daylight, hours per day
Izmir
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Melbourne
15
14
12
11
10
10
10
11
12
13
14
15
Sunshine, hours per day
Izmir
5
5
7
8
10
11
13
12
10
8
6
4
Melbourne
9
7
7
6
5
4
4
6
6
7
7
9

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Izmir: 1991-2020 normals, Izmir (3.4 km from centre). Melbourne: 1991-2020 normals, Latrobe University / Kingsbury (13.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromIzmirMelbourne
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 5 m
€46-55
ADB · 13 km
17 h 55 m
no fares
MEL · 19 km
DohaDOH
3 h 45 m
no fares
BJV · 137 km
14 h 45 m
no fares
MEL · 19 km
Abu DhabiAUH
4 h 15 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
14 h 20 m
no fares
MEL · 19 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
4 h 15 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
14 h 20 m
€856-961
2 stops
MEL · 19 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

MeasureIzmirMelbourne
Official languageTurkishEnglish
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Australian Dollar (AUD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzI230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+3UTC+10, UTC+11 in summer
Emergency number112000
Elevation2 m31 m
Main airportAdnan Menderes International Airport (ADB)13 km from centre120 non-stop destinationsMelbourne Airport (MEL)19 km from centre66 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureIzmirMelbourne
City population4,493,2425,350,705
People per km²4,760535
Museums within 10 km2942
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre2086
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.