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Ferries off the Kordon promenade, Izmir
IzmirFerries off the Kordon promenade
The adobe New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe
Santa FeThe adobe New Mexico Museum of Art

Photos: Izmir by Toygar Par, Pexels License; Santa Fe by dconvertini, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Izmir or Santa Fe?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Izmir for

  • beaches
  • nightlife
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Izmir’s own page.

Choose Santa Fe for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • culture and sights
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Santa Fe’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Izmir 62, Santa Fe 5: Izmir leads by 57 points.
Food & drink. Izmir 72, Santa Fe 62: Izmir leads by 10 points.
Culture & sights. Izmir 55, Santa Fe 66: Santa Fe leads by 11 points.
Nightlife. Izmir 60, Santa Fe 22: Izmir leads by 38 points.
Nature & outdoors. Izmir 66, Santa Fe 80: Santa Fe leads by 14 points.
Day trips. Izmir 86, Santa Fe 70: Izmir leads by 16 points.
Good for families. Izmir 55, Santa Fe 45: Izmir leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Izmir 63, Santa Fe 40: Izmir leads by 23 points.
Shopping & style. Izmir 55, Santa Fe 62: Santa Fe leads by 7 points.
Affordability. Izmir 66, Santa Fe 30: Izmir leads by 36 points.
Live music & performing arts. Izmir 48, Santa Fe 55: Santa Fe leads by 7 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Izmir 57, Santa Fe 55: Izmir leads by 2 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Izmir and Santa Fe.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Izmir
Best match
62match

Wins on beaches and nightlife with your weighting.

Santa Fe
49match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and culture and sights with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Izmir in July

34 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
13 hsunshine a day
23 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Santa Fe in July

31 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
60 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Santa Fe's station stands 199 m below the city centre, so the centre is likely a little cooler than the figures say.

Santa Fe has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Izmir: 1991-2020 normals, Izmir (3.4 km from centre). Santa Fe: 1991-2020 normals, Santa Fe / Cieneguilla (12.4 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureIzmirSanta Fe
Official languageTurkish-
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC-7, UTC-6 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation2 m2,134 m
Main airportAdnan Menderes International Airport (ADB)13 km from centre120 non-stop destinationsSanta Fe Municipal Airport (SAF)12 km from centre5 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureIzmirSanta Fe
City population4,493,24287,505
People per km²4,760645
Museums within 10 km2910
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months-

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. 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.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.