VacationSelector

Izmir or Monaco?

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 nightlife and places to eat with your weighting.

Monaco
48
match

Wins on nature & day trips 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.

IzmirMonaco
Beaches & swimming. Monaco leads by 18 points.18
IzmirMonaco
Score5573
Swim season months54
Beaches 10 km450
Coast distance1 km0 km
Water distance1 km0 km
Places to eat. Izmir leads by 10 points.10
IzmirMonaco
Score4939
Restaurants within 2 km of centre770269
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1216
Museums & heritage. Izmir leads by 5 points.5
IzmirMonaco
Score4338
Museums within 10 km4723
Museums within 2 km of centre278
Share of museums within 2 km %5735
Unesco sites within 50 km02
Nightlife. Izmir leads by 54 points.54
IzmirMonaco
Score628
Drinking venues within 4 km1,02869
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre69563
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6891
Nightclubs within 4 km707
Nature & day trips. Monaco leads by 24 points.24
IzmirMonaco
Score2953
Protected land share 50 km %424
Landscape blanket share 50 km %017
Land share of disc %8454
Park area within 2 km62 hectares15 hectares
Good for families. Izmir and Monaco are level on 35.
IzmirMonaco
Score3535
Tourist attractions within 2 km614
Park area within 2 km62 hectares15 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km23
Sights concentration. Monaco leads by 24 points.24
IzmirMonaco
Score4064
Notable places within 2 km39154
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for moneyNo source publishes a price level for Monaco.
Year-round weather. Monaco leads by 2 points.2
IzmirMonaco
Score7274
Monthly daytime high13 °C to 33.9 °C13.3 °C to 27.9 °C
Monthly rainfall1 mm to 127 mm13 mm to 138 mm
Dry months53
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
Monaco
13
14
15
17
21
25
28
28
25
21
17
14
Sea temperature, °C
Izmir
16
16
16
17
19
22
23
24
23
21
19
17
Monaco
14
13
14
15
18
21
24
25
22
20
17
15
Rainfall, mm
Izmir
119
107
77
51
33
13
1
4
22
55
96
127
Monaco
74
53
51
69
42
34
13
18
84
124
138
91
Daylight, hours per day
Izmir
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Monaco
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Izmir
5
5
7
8
10
11
13
12
10
8
6
4
Monaco
5
6
7
7
9
10
11
11
8
6
5
5

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Izmir: 1991-2020 normals, Izmir (3.4 km from centre). Monaco: 1991-2020 normals, Nice (19.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromIzmirMonaco
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 5 m
€46-55
ADB · 13 km
2 h 45 m
€202-329
NCE · 18 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 45 m
€119-184
ADB · 13 km
1 h 55 m
€76-223
NCE · 18 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
3 h 20 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
1 h 30 m
€78-111
NCE · 18 km
BerlinBER
2 h 55 m
€177-214
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
1 h 55 m
€116-156
NCE · 18 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
3 h 20 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
1 h 40 m
€155-228
1 stop
NCE · 18 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
3 h 0 m
€204-238
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
1 h 30 m
€164-246
1 stop
NCE · 18 km
AthensATH
1 h 0 m
no fares
SMI · 83 km
2 h 30 m
€190-256
1 stop
NCE · 18 km
AmsterdamAMS
3 h 25 m
€221-272
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
1 h 50 m
€170-248
NCE · 18 km
PraguePRG
2 h 40 m
no fares
SMI · 83 km
1 h 45 m
€150-188
1 stop
NCE · 18 km
DusseldorfDUS, NRN
3 h 10 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
NCE · 18 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

MeasureIzmirMonaco
Official languageTurkishFrench
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCEF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation2 m68 m
Main airportAdnan Menderes International Airport (ADB)13 km from centre120 non-stop destinationsNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)18 km from centre129 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureIzmirMonaco
City population4,493,24238,857
People per km²4,76018,503
Museums within 10 km2914
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Distinct cuisines in the centre2029
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months4 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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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.