VacationSelector

Izmir or Split?

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, 2 points apart

Izmir
53
match

Wins on nightlife and places to eat with your weighting.

Split
51
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and museums & heritage 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.

IzmirSplit
Beaches & swimming. Split leads by 18 points.18
IzmirSplit
Score5573
Swim season months54
Beaches 10 km487
Coast distance1 km0 km
Water distance1 km0 km
Places to eat. Izmir leads by 11 points.11
IzmirSplit
Score4938
Restaurants within 2 km of centre770268
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1215
Museums & heritage. Split leads by 9 points.9
IzmirSplit
Score4352
Museums within 10 km4718
Museums within 2 km of centre2716
Share of museums within 2 km %5789
Unesco sites within 50 km04
Nightlife. Izmir leads by 21 points.21
IzmirSplit
Score6241
Drinking venues within 4 km1,028379
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre695263
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6869
Nightclubs within 4 km7023
Nature & day trips. Split leads by 9 points.9
IzmirSplit
Score2938
Protected land share 50 km %49
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %8462
Park area within 2 km62 hectares30 hectares
Good for families. Izmir leads by 9 points.9
IzmirSplit
Score3526
Tourist attractions within 2 km69
Park area within 2 km62 hectares30 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km20
Sights concentration. Split leads by 2 points.2
IzmirSplit
Score4042
Notable places within 2 km3943
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Izmir leads by 9 points.9
IzmirSplit
Score8980
Price level global35.248.5
Daily budget€100€138
Year-round weather. Izmir leads by 3 points.3
IzmirSplit
Score7269
Monthly daytime high13 °C to 33.9 °C10.7 °C to 31 °C
Monthly rainfall1 mm to 127 mm25 mm to 117 mm
Dry months52
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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J
A
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D
Daytime high, °C
Izmir
13
14
17
21
27
31
34
34
29
24
19
14
Split
11
12
15
18
23
28
31
31
25
21
16
12
Sea temperature, °C
Izmir
16
16
16
17
19
22
23
24
23
21
19
17
Split
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
21
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Izmir
119
107
77
51
33
13
1
4
22
55
96
127
Split
73
64
59
62
58
49
25
32
82
80
117
99
Daylight, hours per day
Izmir
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Split
9
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
Split
5
5
7
7
9
10
12
11
8
7
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). Split: 1991-2020 normals, Split / Marjan (0.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromIzmirSplit
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 5 m
€46-55
ADB · 13 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
SPU · 12 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 45 m
€119-184
ADB · 13 km
2 h 30 m
€88-160
SPU · 12 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
3 h 0 m
€204-238
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
1 h 45 m
€169-224
SPU · 12 km
AmsterdamAMS
3 h 25 m
€221-272
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
2 h 10 m
€186-201
1 stop
SPU · 12 km
DusseldorfDUS, NRN
3 h 10 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
2 h 0 m
€205-272
1 stop
SPU · 12 km
MunichMUC
2 h 40 m
€185-288
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
SPU · 12 km
ViennaVIE
2 h 20 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
1 h 15 m
€233-281
SPU · 12 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
3 h 20 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
2 h 5 m
€169-225
SPU · 12 km
BerlinBER
2 h 55 m
€177-214
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
1 h 50 m
€171-200
SPU · 12 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 15 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
1 h 5 m
€294
SPU · 12 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

MeasureIzmirSplit
Official languageTurkishCroatian
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation2 m0 m
Main airportAdnan Menderes International Airport (ADB)13 km from centre120 non-stop destinationsSplit Saint Jerome Airport (SPU)12 km from centre70 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureIzmirSplit
City population4,493,242160,577
People per km²4,760
Museums within 10 km2911
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km04
Distinct cuisines in the centre2031
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months4 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.