VacationSelector

Izmir or Mexico City?

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.

Mexico City
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on museums & heritage and nature & day trips 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.

IzmirMexico City
Beaches & swimming. Izmir leads by 55 points.55
IzmirMexico City
Score550
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km44
Coast distance1 km247 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Mexico City leads by 17 points.17
IzmirMexico City
Score4966
Restaurants within 2 km of centre7702,179
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1215
Museums & heritage. Mexico City leads by 36 points.36
IzmirMexico City
Score4379
Museums within 10 km47138
Museums within 2 km of centre2765
Share of museums within 2 km %5747
Unesco sites within 50 km06
Nightlife. Mexico City leads by 16 points.16
IzmirMexico City
Score6278
Drinking venues within 4 km1,0282,156
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre695926
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6843
Nightclubs within 4 km70198
Nature & day trips. Mexico City leads by 34 points.34
IzmirMexico City
Score2963
Protected land share 50 km %430
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %84100
Park area within 2 km62 hectares32 hectares
Good for families. Mexico City leads by 15 points.15
IzmirMexico City
Score3550
Tourist attractions within 2 km623
Park area within 2 km62 hectares32 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km24
Sights concentration. Mexico City leads by 14 points.14
IzmirMexico City
Score4054
Notable places within 2 km3988
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Izmir leads by 13 points.13
IzmirMexico City
Score8976
Price level global35.254.2
Daily budget€100
Year-round weather. Mexico City leads by 18 points.18
IzmirMexico City
Score7290
Monthly daytime high13 °C to 33.9 °C22.2 °C to 27.9 °C
Monthly rainfall1 mm to 127 mm3 mm to 186 mm
Dry months56
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
Mexico City
22
25
26
28
27
26
25
25
24
23
23
22
Sea temperature, °C
Izmir
16
16
16
17
19
22
23
24
23
21
19
17
Mexico City
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Izmir
119
107
77
51
33
13
1
4
22
55
96
127
Mexico City
7
3
19
27
53
127
176
186
144
79
10
9
Daylight, hours per day
Izmir
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Mexico City
11
12
12
13
13
13
13
13
12
12
11
11
Sunshine, hours per day
Izmir
5
5
7
8
10
11
13
12
10
8
6
4
Mexico City
8
8
9
8
8
6
6
6
5
6
7
7

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Izmir: 1991-2020 normals, Izmir (3.4 km from centre). Mexico City: 1991-2020 normals, Mexico Central, D. F. (7.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromIzmirMexico City
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 5 m
€46-55
ADB · 13 km
14 h 5 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
3 h 0 m
€204-238
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
11 h 55 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
MunichMUC
2 h 40 m
€185-288
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
12 h 15 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 45 m
€119-184
ADB · 13 km
11 h 10 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
AmsterdamAMS
3 h 25 m
€221-272
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
11 h 30 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
BarcelonaBCN
3 h 15 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
11 h 50 m
€883-934
2 stops
MEX · 7 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
3 h 20 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
11 h 30 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
4 h 15 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
17 h 30 m
€1,075-1211
2 stops
MEX · 7 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

MeasureIzmirMexico City
Official languageTurkishSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC-6
Emergency number112911
Elevation2 m2,240 m
Main airportAdnan Menderes International Airport (ADB)13 km from centre120 non-stop destinationsMexico City Benito Juárez International Airport (MEX)7 km from centre95 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureIzmirMexico City
City population4,493,2429,209,944
People per km²4,7606,202
Museums within 10 km29108
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km06
Distinct cuisines in the centre2050
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.