VacationSelector

Izmir or Skopje?

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 museums & heritage with your weighting.

Skopje
47
match

Wins on nature & day trips 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.

IzmirSkopje
Beaches & swimming. Izmir leads by 55 points.55
IzmirSkopje
Score550
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km40
Coast distance1 km151 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Skopje leads by 10 points.10
IzmirSkopje
Score4959
Restaurants within 2 km of centre770396
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1239
Museums & heritage. Izmir leads by 16 points.16
IzmirSkopje
Score4327
Museums within 10 km4713
Museums within 2 km of centre2711
Share of museums within 2 km %5785
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Izmir leads by 16 points.16
IzmirSkopje
Score6246
Drinking venues within 4 km1,028492
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre695351
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6871
Nightclubs within 4 km7022
Nature & day trips. Skopje leads by 11 points.11
IzmirSkopje
Score2940
Protected land share 50 km %411
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %84100
Park area within 2 km62 hectares67 hectares
Good for families. Skopje leads by 5 points.5
IzmirSkopje
Score3540
Tourist attractions within 2 km615
Park area within 2 km62 hectares67 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km20
Sights concentration. Skopje leads by 11 points.11
IzmirSkopje
Score4051
Notable places within 2 km3975
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Skopje leads by 1 points.1
IzmirSkopje
Score8990
Price level global35.234.4
Daily budget€100€72
Year-round weather. Izmir leads by 5 points.5
IzmirSkopje
Score7267
Monthly daytime high13 °C to 33.9 °C4.7 °C to 32.1 °C
Monthly rainfall1 mm to 127 mm29 mm to 58 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
Skopje
5
9
14
19
24
29
32
32
26
20
13
6
Sea temperature, °C
Izmir
16
16
16
17
19
22
23
24
23
21
19
17
Skopje
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Izmir
119
107
77
51
33
13
1
4
22
55
96
127
Skopje
30
29
33
40
58
47
38
32
32
44
52
40
Daylight, hours per day
Izmir
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Skopje
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Izmir
5
5
7
8
10
11
13
12
10
8
6
4
Skopje
3
4
5
7
8
9
11
10
8
6
4
3

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Izmir: 1991-2020 normals, Izmir (3.4 km from centre). Skopje: 1991-2020 (sunshine 1961-1990, rainfall 1961-1990) normals, Skopje-Petrovec (18.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromIzmirSkopje
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 5 m
€46-55
ADB · 13 km
1 h 20 m
€112-116
SKP · 16 km
AnkaraESB
1 h 20 m
€54-66
ADB · 13 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
SKP · 16 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
3 h 0 m
€204-238
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
SKP · 16 km
AntalyaAYT
1 h 5 m
€75-89
ADB · 13 km
1 h 50 m
€155-164
1 stop
SKP · 16 km
ZurichZRH
2 h 50 m
€161-180
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
2 h 5 m
no fares
SKP · 16 km
BaselBSL
2 h 55 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
SKP · 16 km
BerlinBER
2 h 55 m
€177-214
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
2 h 10 m
€99-114
1 stop
SKP · 16 km
ViennaVIE
2 h 20 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
1 h 35 m
€174-193
1 stop
SKP · 16 km
DortmundDTM
3 h 10 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
SKP · 16 km
MedinaMED
2 h 55 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
3 h 40 m
no fares
SKP · 16 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

MeasureIzmirSkopje
Official languageTurkishAlbanian, Macedonian
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Denar (MKD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation2 m251 m
Main airportAdnan Menderes International Airport (ADB)13 km from centre120 non-stop destinationsSkopje International Airport (SKP)16 km from centre51 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureIzmirSkopje
City population4,493,242422,540
People per km²4,760739
Museums within 10 km2917
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre2056
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.