VacationSelector

Izmir or Rotterdam?

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, 1 point apart

Izmir
53
match

Wins on value for money and beaches & swimming with your weighting.

Rotterdam
54
match

Wins on good for families and places to eat 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.

IzmirRotterdam
Beaches & swimming. Izmir leads by 18 points.18
IzmirRotterdam
Score5537
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km422
Coast distance1 km24 km
Water distance1 km24 km
Places to eat. Rotterdam leads by 23 points.23
IzmirRotterdam
Score4972
Restaurants within 2 km of centre770862
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1246
Museums & heritage. Rotterdam leads by 17 points.17
IzmirRotterdam
Score4360
Museums within 10 km4741
Museums within 2 km of centre2720
Share of museums within 2 km %5749
Unesco sites within 50 km05
Nightlife. Izmir leads by 13 points.13
IzmirRotterdam
Score6249
Drinking venues within 4 km1,028542
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre695378
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6870
Nightclubs within 4 km7040
Nature & day trips. Rotterdam leads by 13 points.13
IzmirRotterdam
Score2942
Protected land share 50 km %410
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %8479
Park area within 2 km62 hectares61 hectares
Good for families. Rotterdam leads by 27 points.27
IzmirRotterdam
Score3562
Tourist attractions within 2 km627
Park area within 2 km62 hectares61 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km28
Sights concentration. Rotterdam leads by 11 points.11
IzmirRotterdam
Score4051
Notable places within 2 km3974
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Izmir leads by 31 points.31
IzmirRotterdam
Score8958
Price level global35.279.2
Daily budget€100€181
Year-round weather. Izmir leads by 16 points.16
IzmirRotterdam
Score7256
Monthly daytime high13 °C to 33.9 °C6.2 °C to 22.1 °C
Monthly rainfall1 mm to 127 mm42 mm to 85 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
Rotterdam
6
7
10
14
17
20
22
22
19
15
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Izmir
16
16
16
17
19
22
23
24
23
21
19
17
Rotterdam
6
5
6
9
12
15
18
19
18
15
11
8
Rainfall, mm
Izmir
119
107
77
51
33
13
1
4
22
55
96
127
Rotterdam
71
63
58
42
59
71
85
84
78
81
80
84
Daylight, hours per day
Izmir
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Rotterdam
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Izmir
5
5
7
8
10
11
13
12
10
8
6
4
Rotterdam
2
3
5
6
7
7
7
6
5
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). Rotterdam: 1993-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Rotterdam Airport Zestienhoven (3.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromIzmirRotterdam
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 5 m
€46-55
ADB · 13 km
3 h 15 m
€140-185
RTM · 5 km
DublinDUB
4 h 15 m
€231-257
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
1 h 35 m
€69-96
AMS · 47 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
3 h 20 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
1 h 10 m
€178-300
AMS · 47 km
MadridMAD
3 h 45 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
2 h 25 m
€160-183
AMS · 47 km
CopenhagenCPH
3 h 10 m
no fares
MJT · 86 km
1 h 25 m
€171-212
1 stop
AMS · 47 km
ManchesterMAN
3 h 55 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
1 h 15 m
€145-187
AMS · 47 km
AnkaraESB
1 h 20 m
€54-66
ADB · 13 km
3 h 40 m
no fares
RTM · 5 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
4 h 15 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
6 h 45 m
€318-346
1 stop
AMS · 47 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
3 h 40 m
no fares
SMI · 83 km
2 h 0 m
€156-208
AMS · 47 km
AntalyaAYT
1 h 5 m
€75-89
ADB · 13 km
3 h 45 m
no fares
RTM · 5 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

MeasureIzmirRotterdam
Official languageTurkishDutch
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112 or 911
Elevation2 m10 m
Main airportAdnan Menderes International Airport (ADB)13 km from centre120 non-stop destinationsRotterdam The Hague Airport (RTM)5 km from centre45 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureIzmirRotterdam
City population4,493,242664,311
People per km²4,7602,080
Museums within 10 km2940
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km05
Distinct cuisines in the centre2077
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 monthsNone

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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.