VacationSelector

Izmir or Miami?

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 and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Miami
✓ Best match
56
match

Wins on nature & day trips and beaches & swimming 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.

IzmirMiami
Beaches & swimming. Miami leads by 40 points.40
IzmirMiami
Score5595
Swim season months512
Beaches 10 km420
Coast distance1 km1 km
Water distance1 km1 km
Places to eat. Miami leads by 16 points.16
IzmirMiami
Score4965
Restaurants within 2 km of centre770898
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1229
Museums & heritage. Izmir leads by 20 points.20
IzmirMiami
Score4323
Museums within 10 km4728
Museums within 2 km of centre276
Share of museums within 2 km %5721
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Izmir leads by 12 points.12
IzmirMiami
Score6250
Drinking venues within 4 km1,028538
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre695287
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6853
Nightclubs within 4 km7063
Nature & day trips. Miami leads by 43 points.43
IzmirMiami
Score2972
Protected land share 50 km %416
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %8448
Park area within 2 km62 hectares50 hectares
Good for families. Miami leads by 9 points.9
IzmirMiami
Score3544
Tourist attractions within 2 km614
Park area within 2 km62 hectares50 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km22
Sights concentration. Miami leads by 2 points.2
IzmirMiami
Score4042
Notable places within 2 km3945
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Izmir leads by 46 points.46
IzmirMiami
Score8943
Price level global35.2100
Daily budget€100
Year-round weather. Miami leads by 2 points.2
IzmirMiami
Score7274
Monthly daytime high13 °C to 33.9 °C24.7 °C to 32.7 °C
Monthly rainfall1 mm to 127 mm47 mm to 267 mm
Dry months50
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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
Miami
25
26
27
29
31
32
33
33
32
30
28
26
Sea temperature, °C
Izmir
16
16
16
17
19
22
23
24
23
21
19
17
Miami
25
25
25
26
27
28
29
30
29
28
27
26
Rainfall, mm
Izmir
119
107
77
51
33
13
1
4
22
55
96
127
Miami
47
55
63
85
157
267
186
242
259
193
90
62
Daylight, hours per day
Izmir
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Miami
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11
Sunshine, hours per day
Izmir
5
5
7
8
10
11
13
12
10
8
6
4
Miami
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Izmir: 1991-2020 normals, Izmir (3.4 km from centre). Miami: 1991-2020 normals, Miami International Airport (10 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromIzmirMiami
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 5 m
€46-55
ADB · 13 km
11 h 55 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 45 m
€119-184
ADB · 13 km
9 h 0 m
€550-628
1 stop
MIA · 7 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
3 h 0 m
€204-238
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
9 h 50 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
MadridMAD
3 h 45 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
9 h 0 m
€522-631
1 stop
MIA · 7 km
MunichMUC
2 h 40 m
€185-288
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
10 h 10 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
AmsterdamAMS
3 h 25 m
€221-272
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
9 h 25 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
ZurichZRH
2 h 50 m
€161-180
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
9 h 55 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
3 h 20 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
9 h 20 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
DublinDUB
4 h 15 m
€231-257
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
8 h 30 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
4 h 15 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
15 h 30 m
€891-1074
2 stops
MIA · 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

MeasureIzmirMiami
Official languageTurkish
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation2 m2 m
Main airportAdnan Menderes International Airport (ADB)13 km from centre120 non-stop destinationsMiami International Airport (MIA)7 km from centre199 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureIzmirMiami
City population4,493,242442,241
People per km²4,7603,046
Museums within 10 km2917
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre2039
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months12 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.