VacationSelector

Izmir or Shanghai?

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 beaches & swimming and value for money with your weighting.

Shanghai
54
match

Wins on good for families and nature & day trips 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.

IzmirShanghai
Beaches & swimming. Izmir leads by 38 points.38
IzmirShanghai
Score5517
Swim season months55
Beaches 10 km40
Coast distance1 km18 km
Water distance1 km18 km
Places to eatWe cannot measure this for Shanghai.
Museums & heritage. Shanghai leads by 2 points.2
IzmirShanghai
Score4345
Museums within 10 km47108
Museums within 2 km of centre2728
Share of museums within 2 km %5726
Unesco sites within 50 km00
NightlifeWe cannot measure this for Shanghai.
Nature & day trips. Shanghai leads by 13 points.13
IzmirShanghai
Score2942
Protected land share 50 km %49
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %8482
Park area within 2 km62 hectares83 hectares
Good for families. Shanghai leads by 46 points.46
IzmirShanghai
Score3581
Tourist attractions within 2 km686
Park area within 2 km62 hectares83 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km210
Sights concentration. Shanghai leads by 11 points.11
IzmirShanghai
Score4051
Notable places within 2 km3973
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Izmir leads by 10 points.10
IzmirShanghai
Score8979
Price level global35.249
Daily budget€100—
Year-round weather. Izmir leads by 7 points.7
IzmirShanghai
Score7265
Monthly daytime high13 °C to 33.9 °C8.5 °C to 33.2 °C
Monthly rainfall1 mm to 127 mm43 mm to 216 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
Shanghai
9
11
15
21
26
28
33
33
29
23
18
12
Sea temperature, °C
Izmir
16
16
16
17
19
22
23
24
23
21
19
17
Shanghai
8
7
10
14
19
22
26
28
26
21
17
12
Rainfall, mm
Izmir
119
107
77
51
33
13
1
4
22
55
96
127
Shanghai
69
65
88
72
84
192
151
216
97
64
53
43
Daylight, hours per day
Izmir
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Shanghai
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
11
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Izmir
5
5
7
8
10
11
13
12
10
8
6
4
Shanghai
4
4
5
5
6
4
6
6
5
5
4
4

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

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Getting there

Flying fromIzmirShanghai
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 5 m
€46-55
ADB · 13 km
10 h 5 m
no fares
PVG · 33 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 45 m
€119-184
ADB · 13 km
11 h 30 m
€528-630
1 stop
PVG · 33 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
3 h 0 m
€204-238
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
11 h 5 m
no fares
PVG · 33 km
MoscowVKO, SVO, DME, ZIA
3 h 15 m
€244-307
1 stop
BJV · 137 km
8 h 45 m
no fares
PVG · 33 km
MunichMUC
2 h 40 m
€185-288
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
11 h 0 m
no fares
PVG · 33 km
AthensATH
1 h 0 m
no fares
SMI · 83 km
10 h 45 m
no fares
PVG · 33 km
AmsterdamAMS
3 h 25 m
€221-272
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
11 h 10 m
no fares
PVG · 33 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
3 h 20 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
11 h 15 m
no fares
PVG · 33 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
4 h 15 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
8 h 15 m
€508-557
1 stop
PVG · 33 km
TashkentTAS
4 h 55 m
€319-343
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
6 h 15 m
no fares
PVG · 33 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

MeasureIzmirShanghai
Official languageTurkishPutonghua
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Yuan Renminbi (CNY)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzACI220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC+8
Emergency number112Police 110, ambulance 120, fire 119
Elevation2 m4 m
Main airportAdnan Menderes International Airport (ADB)13 km from centre120 non-stop destinationsShanghai Pudong International Airport (PVG)33 km from centre200 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days6 days

By the numbers

MeasureIzmirShanghai
City population4,493,24224,870,895
People per km²4,7603,922
Museums within 10 km2944
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre2064
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months5 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.