VacationSelector

Izmir or Palermo?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Izmir
53
match

Wins on value for money and nightlife with your weighting.

Palermo
55
match

Wins on sights concentration 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.

IzmirPalermo
Beaches & swimming. Palermo leads by 12 points.12
IzmirPalermo
Score5567
Swim season months55
Beaches 10 km413
Coast distance1 km1 km
Water distance1 km1 km
Places to eat. Palermo leads by 1 points.1
IzmirPalermo
Score4950
Restaurants within 2 km of centre770807
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1213
Museums & heritage. Palermo leads by 7 points.7
IzmirPalermo
Score4350
Museums within 10 km4732
Museums within 2 km of centre2726
Share of museums within 2 km %5781
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Izmir leads by 9 points.9
IzmirPalermo
Score6253
Drinking venues within 4 km1,028799
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre695515
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6864
Nightclubs within 4 km7016
Nature & day trips. Palermo leads by 7 points.7
IzmirPalermo
Score2936
Protected land share 50 km %44
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %8445
Park area within 2 km62 hectares63 hectares
Good for families. Palermo leads by 6 points.6
IzmirPalermo
Score3541
Tourist attractions within 2 km616
Park area within 2 km62 hectares63 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km20
Sights concentration. Palermo leads by 17 points.17
IzmirPalermo
Score4057
Notable places within 2 km39104
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Izmir leads by 21 points.21
IzmirPalermo
Score8968
Price level global35.264.9
Daily budget€100€155
Year-round weather. Palermo leads by 5 points.5
IzmirPalermo
Score7277
Monthly daytime high13 °C to 33.9 °C12.6 °C to 27.8 °C
Monthly rainfall1 mm to 127 mm4 mm to 71 mm
Dry months57
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
Palermo
13
13
14
16
20
24
28
28
25
21
17
14
Sea temperature, °C
Izmir
16
16
16
17
19
22
23
24
23
21
19
17
Palermo
15
14
15
16
19
22
26
27
25
23
20
17
Rainfall, mm
Izmir
119
107
77
51
33
13
1
4
22
55
96
127
Palermo
48
45
35
35
18
9
4
11
37
67
71
69
Daylight, hours per day
Izmir
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Palermo
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Izmir
5
5
7
8
10
11
13
12
10
8
6
4
Palermo
4
5
6
7
9
10
11
10
8
7
5
4

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Izmir: 1991-2020 normals, Izmir (3.4 km from centre). Palermo: 1961-1990 normals, Ustica (66.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromIzmirPalermo
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 5 m
€46-55
ADB · 13 km
2 h 15 m
€183-194
PMO · 25 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 40 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
1 h 45 m
€31-110
PMO · 25 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 15 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
1 h 10 m
€40-52
PMO · 25 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 45 m
€119-184
ADB · 13 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
PMO · 25 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
3 h 20 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
2 h 25 m
€101-135
PMO · 25 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
3 h 0 m
€204-238
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
2 h 15 m
€101-154
1 stop
PMO · 25 km
MunichMUC
2 h 40 m
€185-288
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
2 h 0 m
€175-215
1 stop
PMO · 25 km
DusseldorfDUS, NRN
3 h 10 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
2 h 30 m
no fares
PMO · 25 km
VeniceVCE, TSF
2 h 25 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
1 h 40 m
€29-53
PMO · 25 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
1 h 50 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
3 h 10 m
€151-346
1 stop
PMO · 25 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

MeasureIzmirPalermo
Official languageTurkishItalian
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation2 m14 m
Main airportAdnan Menderes International Airport (ADB)13 km from centre120 non-stop destinationsFalcone–Borsellino Airport (PMO)25 km from centre103 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureIzmirPalermo
City population4,493,242630,167
People per km²4,7603,924
Museums within 10 km2942
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre2033
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months5 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.