VacationSelector

Izmir or Pisa?

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 nightlife with your weighting.

Pisa
45
match

Wins on museums & heritage 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.

IzmirPisa
Beaches & swimming. Izmir leads by 34 points.34
IzmirPisa
Score5521
Swim season months54
Beaches 10 km41
Coast distance1 km10 km
Water distance1 km10 km
Places to eat. Izmir leads by 15 points.15
IzmirPisa
Score4934
Restaurants within 2 km of centre770379
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km129
Museums & heritage. Pisa leads by 12 points.12
IzmirPisa
Score4355
Museums within 10 km4727
Museums within 2 km of centre2722
Share of museums within 2 km %5781
Unesco sites within 50 km03
Nightlife. Izmir leads by 34 points.34
IzmirPisa
Score6228
Drinking venues within 4 km1,028232
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre695203
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6888
Nightclubs within 4 km703
Nature & day trips. Pisa leads by 10 points.10
IzmirPisa
Score2939
Protected land share 50 km %49
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %8465
Park area within 2 km62 hectares40 hectares
Good for families. Pisa leads by 12 points.12
IzmirPisa
Score3547
Tourist attractions within 2 km620
Park area within 2 km62 hectares40 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km22
Sights concentration. Pisa leads by 7 points.7
IzmirPisa
Score4047
Notable places within 2 km3958
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Izmir leads by 21 points.21
IzmirPisa
Score8968
Price level global35.264.9
Daily budget€100€155
Year-round weather. Izmir leads by 2 points.2
IzmirPisa
Score7270
Monthly daytime high13 °C to 33.9 °C11.4 °C to 30.3 °C
Monthly rainfall1 mm to 127 mm32 mm to 132 mm
Dry months52
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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D
Daytime high, °C
Izmir
13
14
17
21
27
31
34
34
29
24
19
14
Pisa
11
13
16
18
23
27
30
30
26
21
16
12
Sea temperature, °C
Izmir
16
16
16
17
19
22
23
24
23
21
19
17
Pisa
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
Rainfall, mm
Izmir
119
107
77
51
33
13
1
4
22
55
96
127
Pisa
68
58
59
65
63
41
32
35
102
125
132
95
Daylight, hours per day
Izmir
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Pisa
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
Pisa
4
4
6
6
8
9
11
10
7
5
4
3

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Izmir: 1991-2020 normals, Izmir (3.4 km from centre). Pisa: 1991-2020 normals, Pisa / S. Giusto (3.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromIzmirPisa
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 5 m
€46-55
ADB · 13 km
2 h 25 m
€154-191
1 stop
BLQ · 115 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 45 m
€119-184
ADB · 13 km
2 h 5 m
€48-62
PSA · 4 km
TiranaTIA
1 h 30 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
PSA · 4 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
3 h 20 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
PSA · 4 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 15 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
55 m
€136-139
1 stop
FLR · 65 km
BerlinBER
2 h 55 m
€177-214
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
1 h 50 m
€119-200
1 stop
PSA · 4 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
3 h 20 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
PSA · 4 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
3 h 0 m
€204-238
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
PSA · 4 km
AmsterdamAMS
3 h 25 m
€221-272
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
1 h 55 m
€210-262
1 stop
PSA · 4 km
ManchesterMAN
3 h 55 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
PSA · 4 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

MeasureIzmirPisa
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 m4 m
Main airportAdnan Menderes International Airport (ADB)13 km from centre120 non-stop destinationsPisa International Airport (PSA)4 km from centre81 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureIzmirPisa
City population4,493,24288,737
People per km²4,760479
Museums within 10 km2927
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
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. 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.