VacationSelector

Izmir or Munich?

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.

Munich
✓ Best match
57
match

Wins on good for families 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.

IzmirMunich
Beaches & swimming. Izmir leads by 55 points.55
IzmirMunich
Score550
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km46
Coast distance1 km579 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Munich leads by 24 points.24
IzmirMunich
Score4973
Restaurants within 2 km of centre7701,280
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1235
Museums & heritage. Munich leads by 18 points.18
IzmirMunich
Score4361
Museums within 10 km4774
Museums within 2 km of centre2748
Share of museums within 2 km %5765
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Munich leads by 5 points.5
IzmirMunich
Score6267
Drinking venues within 4 km1,0281,335
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre695763
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6857
Nightclubs within 4 km70103
Nature & day trips. Munich leads by 19 points.19
IzmirMunich
Score2948
Protected land share 50 km %417
Landscape blanket share 50 km %015
Land share of disc %84100
Park area within 2 km62 hectares199 hectares
Good for families. Munich leads by 44 points.44
IzmirMunich
Score3579
Tourist attractions within 2 km680
Park area within 2 km62 hectares199 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km22
Sights concentration. Munich leads by 28 points.28
IzmirMunich
Score4068
Notable places within 2 km39196
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Izmir leads by 29 points.29
IzmirMunich
Score8960
Price level global35.275.9
Daily budget€100€163
Year-round weather. Izmir leads by 16 points.16
IzmirMunich
Score7256
Monthly daytime high13 °C to 33.9 °C4 °C to 25 °C
Monthly rainfall1 mm to 127 mm46 mm to 121 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
Munich
4
6
10
15
19
23
25
25
20
15
8
5
Sea temperature, °C
Izmir
16
16
16
17
19
22
23
24
23
21
19
17
Munich
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Izmir
119
107
77
51
33
13
1
4
22
55
96
127
Munich
52
46
61
56
107
121
119
117
78
67
58
59
Daylight, hours per day
Izmir
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Munich
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Izmir
5
5
7
8
10
11
13
12
10
8
6
4
Munich
2
3
5
6
7
7
8
8
6
4
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Izmir: 1991-2020 normals, Izmir (3.4 km from centre). Munich: 1991-2020 normals, München (1.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromIzmirMunich
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 5 m
€46-55
ADB · 13 km
2 h 30 m
€127-141
MUC · 29 km
AnkaraESB
1 h 20 m
€54-66
ADB · 13 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
MUC · 29 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 45 m
€119-184
ADB · 13 km
1 h 45 m
€116-210
MUC · 29 km
DusseldorfDUS, NRN
3 h 10 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
1 h 15 m
€157-185
MUC · 29 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
3 h 0 m
€204-238
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
1 h 0 m
€177-210
MUC · 29 km
HamburgHAM, XFW, LBC
3 h 10 m
€184-207
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
1 h 20 m
€164-220
MUC · 29 km
BerlinBER
2 h 55 m
€177-214
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
1 h 15 m
€159-217
MUC · 29 km
AntalyaAYT
1 h 5 m
€75-89
ADB · 13 km
3 h 0 m
€207-225
MUC · 29 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
4 h 15 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
6 h 0 m
€292-332
MUC · 29 km
TashkentTAS
4 h 55 m
€319-343
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
5 h 55 m
no fares
MUC · 29 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

MeasureIzmirMunich
Official languageTurkishGerman
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation2 m519 m
Main airportAdnan Menderes International Airport (ADB)13 km from centre120 non-stop destinationsMunich Airport (MUC)29 km from centre208 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureIzmirMunich
City population4,493,2421,510,378
People per km²4,7604,861
Museums within 10 km2974
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre2089
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.