VacationSelector

Izmir or Prague?

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.

Prague
✓ Best match
62
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.

IzmirPrague
Beaches & swimming. Izmir leads by 55 points.55
IzmirPrague
Score550
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km47
Coast distance1 km10,000 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Prague leads by 26 points.26
IzmirPrague
Score4975
Restaurants within 2 km of centre7701,866
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1229
Museums & heritage. Prague leads by 29 points.29
IzmirPrague
Score4372
Museums within 10 km47138
Museums within 2 km of centre27100
Share of museums within 2 km %5772
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Prague leads by 15 points.15
IzmirPrague
Score6277
Drinking venues within 4 km1,0282,248
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre6951,457
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6865
Nightclubs within 4 km70123
Nature & day trips. Prague leads by 16 points.16
IzmirPrague
Score2945
Protected land share 50 km %412
Landscape blanket share 50 km %08
Land share of disc %84100
Park area within 2 km62 hectares183 hectares
Good for families. Prague leads by 40 points.40
IzmirPrague
Score3575
Tourist attractions within 2 km654
Park area within 2 km62 hectares183 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km23
Sights concentration. Prague leads by 36 points.36
IzmirPrague
Score4076
Notable places within 2 km39310
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Izmir leads by 14 points.14
IzmirPrague
Score8975
Price level global35.255.2
Daily budget€100€107
Year-round weather. Izmir leads by 11 points.11
IzmirPrague
Score7261
Monthly daytime high13 °C to 33.9 °C2.2 °C to 25.3 °C
Monthly rainfall1 mm to 127 mm22 mm to 80 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
Prague
2
5
9
16
20
23
25
25
20
14
7
3
Sea temperature, °C
Izmir
16
16
16
17
19
22
23
24
23
21
19
17
Prague
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Izmir
119
107
77
51
33
13
1
4
22
55
96
127
Prague
26
22
31
27
65
80
76
79
44
36
30
30
Daylight, hours per day
Izmir
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Prague
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Izmir
5
5
7
8
10
11
13
12
10
8
6
4
Prague
2
3
4
6
7
8
8
7
5
4
2
1

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Izmir: 1991-2020 normals, Izmir (3.4 km from centre). Prague: 1991-2020 normals, Praha-Libus (8.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromIzmirPrague
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 5 m
€46-55
ADB · 13 km
2 h 25 m
€118-136
PRG · 12 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 45 m
€119-184
ADB · 13 km
1 h 55 m
€63-104
1 stop
PRG · 12 km
AntalyaAYT
1 h 5 m
€75-89
ADB · 13 km
3 h 0 m
€179-197
1 stop
PRG · 12 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
3 h 0 m
€204-238
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
1 h 10 m
€126-144
PRG · 12 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
3 h 20 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
1 h 40 m
€86-113
PRG · 12 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
1 h 50 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
3 h 45 m
€220-244
1 stop
PRG · 12 km
AthensATH
1 h 0 m
no fares
SMI · 83 km
2 h 30 m
€132-140
PRG · 12 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
3 h 20 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
1 h 30 m
€61-116
PRG · 12 km
DusseldorfDUS, NRN
3 h 10 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
PRG · 12 km
TashkentTAS
4 h 55 m
€319-343
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
5 h 40 m
no fares
PRG · 12 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

MeasureIzmirPrague
Official languageTurkishCzech
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Czech Koruna (CZK)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation2 m235 m
Main airportAdnan Menderes International Airport (ADB)13 km from centre120 non-stop destinationsVáclav Havel Airport Prague (PRG)12 km from centre175 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureIzmirPrague
City population4,493,2421,397,880
People per km²4,7602,817
Museums within 10 km2988
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.