VacationSelector

Izmir or Montreal?

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 beaches & swimming and value for money with your weighting.

Montreal
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.

IzmirMontreal
Beaches & swimming. Izmir leads by 55 points.55
IzmirMontreal
Score550
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km47
Coast distance1 km276 km
Water distance1 km—
Places to eat. Montreal leads by 25 points.25
IzmirMontreal
Score4974
Restaurants within 2 km of centre7701,016
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1249
Museums & heritage. Izmir leads by 6 points.6
IzmirMontreal
Score4337
Museums within 10 km4739
Museums within 2 km of centre2719
Share of museums within 2 km %5749
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Izmir and Montreal are level on 62.
IzmirMontreal
Score6262
Drinking venues within 4 km1,0281,012
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre695493
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6849
Nightclubs within 4 km7074
Nature & day trips. Montreal leads by 7 points.7
IzmirMontreal
Score2936
Protected land share 50 km %42
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %84100
Park area within 2 km62 hectares189 hectares
Good for families. Montreal leads by 15 points.15
IzmirMontreal
Score3550
Tourist attractions within 2 km611
Park area within 2 km62 hectares189 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km21
Sights concentration. Montreal leads by 16 points.16
IzmirMontreal
Score4056
Notable places within 2 km3998
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Izmir leads by 35 points.35
IzmirMontreal
Score8954
Price level global35.284
Daily budget€100—
Year-round weather. Izmir leads by 22 points.22
IzmirMontreal
Score7250
Monthly daytime high13 °C to 33.9 °C-3.5 °C to 26.5 °C
Monthly rainfall1 mm to 127 mm69 mm to 121 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
Montreal
-3
-3
3
11
19
24
27
26
22
13
6
-1
Sea temperature, °C
Izmir
16
16
16
17
19
22
23
24
23
21
19
17
Montreal
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Izmir
119
107
77
51
33
13
1
4
22
55
96
127
Montreal
84
69
89
121
89
107
98
109
88
100
85
94
Daylight, hours per day
Izmir
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Montreal
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Izmir
5
5
7
8
10
11
13
12
10
8
6
4
Montreal
3
4
6
6
8
8
9
8
7
4
3
3

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Izmir: 1991-2020 normals, Izmir (3.4 km from centre). Montreal: 1991-2020 normals, Montreal McTavish (3.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromIzmirMontreal
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 5 m
€46-55
ADB · 13 km
9 h 45 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
3 h 0 m
€204-238
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
7 h 35 m
€591-764
2 stops
YUL · 16 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 45 m
€119-184
ADB · 13 km
6 h 50 m
€447-599
1 stop
YUL · 16 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
3 h 20 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
7 h 10 m
€308-372
YUL · 16 km
AthensATH
1 h 0 m
no fares
SMI · 83 km
9 h 40 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
AmsterdamAMS
3 h 25 m
€221-272
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
7 h 10 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
3 h 20 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
7 h 10 m
€506-644
1 stop
YUL · 16 km
LisbonLIS
4 h 20 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
6 h 50 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
BerlinBER
2 h 55 m
€177-214
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
7 h 45 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
MunichMUC
2 h 40 m
€185-288
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
7 h 55 m
no fares
YUL · 16 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

MeasureIzmirMontreal
Official languageTurkishFrench, English
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation2 m31 m
Main airportAdnan Menderes International Airport (ADB)13 km from centre120 non-stop destinationsMontreal / Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport (YUL)16 km from centre164 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureIzmirMontreal
City population4,493,2421,895,211
People per km²4,7603,806
Museums within 10 km2937
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre2097
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.