VacationSelector

Izmir or New York?

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 year-round weather with your weighting.

New York
✓ Best match
66
match

Wins on places to eat and good for families 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.

IzmirNew York
Beaches & swimming. New York leads by 9 points.9
IzmirNew York
Score5564
Swim season months53
Beaches 10 km417
Coast distance1 km1 km
Water distance1 km1 km
Places to eat. New York leads by 46 points.46
IzmirNew York
Score4995
Restaurants within 2 km of centre7706,032
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1238
Museums & heritage. New York leads by 17 points.17
IzmirNew York
Score4360
Museums within 10 km47119
Museums within 2 km of centre2731
Share of museums within 2 km %5726
Unesco sites within 50 km02
Nightlife. New York leads by 27 points.27
IzmirNew York
Score6289
Drinking venues within 4 km1,0284,159
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre6952,015
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6848
Nightclubs within 4 km70192
Nature & day trips. New York leads by 10 points.10
IzmirNew York
Score2939
Protected land share 50 km %44
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %8469
Park area within 2 km62 hectares134 hectares
Good for families. New York leads by 37 points.37
IzmirNew York
Score3572
Tourist attractions within 2 km637
Park area within 2 km62 hectares134 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km27
Sights concentration. New York leads by 34 points.34
IzmirNew York
Score4074
Notable places within 2 km39268
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Izmir leads by 46 points.46
IzmirNew York
Score8943
Price level global35.2100
Daily budget€100—
Year-round weather. Izmir leads by 14 points.14
IzmirNew York
Score7258
Monthly daytime high13 °C to 33.9 °C4.5 °C to 30.1 °C
Monthly rainfall1 mm to 127 mm74 mm to 112 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
New York
5
6
10
16
22
27
30
29
25
19
13
7
Sea temperature, °C
Izmir
16
16
16
17
19
22
23
24
23
21
19
17
New York
6
4
5
8
13
18
22
23
21
17
13
9
Rainfall, mm
Izmir
119
107
77
51
33
13
1
4
22
55
96
127
New York
83
74
102
97
91
103
107
112
98
97
80
104
Daylight, hours per day
Izmir
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
New York
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Izmir
5
5
7
8
10
11
13
12
10
8
6
4
New York
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). New York: 1991-2020 normals, LaGuardia Airport (12.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromIzmirNew York
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 5 m
€46-55
ADB · 13 km
10 h 5 m
no fares
JFK · 21 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
3 h 0 m
€204-238
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
7 h 55 m
€439-457
1 stop
JFK · 21 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 45 m
€119-184
ADB · 13 km
7 h 10 m
€459-498
JFK · 21 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
3 h 20 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
7 h 30 m
€445-517
JFK · 21 km
DublinDUB
4 h 15 m
€231-257
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
6 h 40 m
€391-493
JFK · 21 km
BerlinBER
2 h 55 m
€177-214
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
8 h 15 m
no fares
EWR · 14 km
MunichMUC
2 h 40 m
€185-288
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
8 h 20 m
no fares
EWR · 14 km
MadridMAD
3 h 45 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
7 h 25 m
€474-553
1 stop
JFK · 21 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
1 h 50 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
11 h 25 m
€622-836
1 stop
JFK · 21 km
TashkentTAS
4 h 55 m
€319-343
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
12 h 40 m
no fares
JFK · 21 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

MeasureIzmirNew York
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 m25 m
Main airportAdnan Menderes International Airport (ADB)13 km from centre120 non-stop destinationsJohn F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK)21 km from centre188 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureIzmirNew York
City population4,493,2428,804,190
People per km²4,7607,256
Museums within 10 km29157
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Distinct cuisines in the centre20132
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months3 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.