VacationSelector

Izmir or San Jose?

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 value for money with your weighting.

San Jose
39
match

Wins on nature & day trips and year-round weather 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.

IzmirSan Jose
Beaches & swimming. Izmir leads by 47 points.47
IzmirSan Jose
Score558
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km41
Coast distance1 km14 km
Water distance1 km14 km
Places to eat. Izmir leads by 8 points.8
IzmirSan Jose
Score4941
Restaurants within 2 km of centre770313
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1216
Museums & heritage. Izmir leads by 17 points.17
IzmirSan Jose
Score4326
Museums within 10 km4720
Museums within 2 km of centre279
Share of museums within 2 km %5745
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Izmir leads by 31 points.31
IzmirSan Jose
Score6231
Drinking venues within 4 km1,028231
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre69588
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6838
Nightclubs within 4 km7016
Nature & day trips. San Jose leads by 41 points.41
IzmirSan Jose
Score2970
Protected land share 50 km %426
Landscape blanket share 50 km %02
Land share of disc %8491
Park area within 2 km62 hectares101 hectares
Good for families. Izmir leads by 2 points.2
IzmirSan Jose
Score3533
Tourist attractions within 2 km62
Park area within 2 km62 hectares101 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km22
Sights concentration. Izmir leads by 26 points.26
IzmirSan Jose
Score4014
Notable places within 2 km399
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Izmir leads by 46 points.46
IzmirSan Jose
Score8943
Price level global35.2100
Daily budget€100
Year-round weather. San Jose leads by 13 points.13
IzmirSan Jose
Score7285
Monthly daytime high13 °C to 33.9 °C15.4 °C to 26.8 °C
Monthly rainfall1 mm to 127 mm0 mm to 78 mm
Dry months58
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
San Jose
15
17
19
21
23
26
27
27
27
24
19
17
Sea temperature, °C
Izmir
16
16
16
17
19
22
23
24
23
21
19
17
San Jose
12
12
12
12
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
13
Rainfall, mm
Izmir
119
107
77
51
33
13
1
4
22
55
96
127
San Jose
50
78
51
25
9
2
0
0
2
15
33
62
Daylight, hours per day
Izmir
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
San Jose
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
San Jose
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). San Jose: 1991-2020 normals, San Jose / Santa Clara Trailer Village (8.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromIzmirSan Jose
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 5 m
€46-55
ADB · 13 km
13 h 20 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
3 h 0 m
€204-238
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
11 h 25 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 45 m
€119-184
ADB · 13 km
10 h 50 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
3 h 20 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
11 h 15 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
MunichMUC
2 h 40 m
€185-288
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
11 h 45 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
AmsterdamAMS
3 h 25 m
€221-272
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
11 h 0 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
4 h 15 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
16 h 0 m
€1,005-1027
1 stop
SFO · 57 km
ZurichZRH
2 h 50 m
€161-180
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
11 h 40 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
DublinDUB
4 h 15 m
€231-257
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
10 h 20 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
CopenhagenCPH
3 h 10 m
no fares
MJT · 86 km
11 h 0 m
no fares
SFO · 57 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

MeasureIzmirSan Jose
Official languageTurkish
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation2 m25 m
Main airportAdnan Menderes International Airport (ADB)13 km from centre120 non-stop destinationsMineta San Jose International Airport (SJC)8 km from centre17 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureIzmirSan Jose
City population4,493,2421,013,240
People per km²4,7602,167
Museums within 10 km2919
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre2030
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.