VacationSelector

Izmir or Stockholm?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Izmir
53
match

Wins on value for money and year-round weather with your weighting.

Stockholm
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on sights concentration and places to eat 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.

IzmirStockholm
Beaches & swimming. Stockholm leads by 5 points.5
IzmirStockholm
Score5560
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km473
Coast distance1 km0 km
Water distance1 km0 km
Places to eat. Stockholm leads by 27 points.27
IzmirStockholm
Score4976
Restaurants within 2 km of centre7701,558
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1236
Museums & heritage. Stockholm leads by 26 points.26
IzmirStockholm
Score4369
Museums within 10 km4774
Museums within 2 km of centre2747
Share of museums within 2 km %5764
Unesco sites within 50 km03
Nightlife. Stockholm leads by 2 points.2
IzmirStockholm
Score6264
Drinking venues within 4 km1,0281,090
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre695689
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6863
Nightclubs within 4 km70106
Nature & day trips. Stockholm leads by 12 points.12
IzmirStockholm
Score2941
Protected land share 50 km %47
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %8477
Park area within 2 km62 hectares104 hectares
Good for families. Stockholm leads by 22 points.22
IzmirStockholm
Score3557
Tourist attractions within 2 km623
Park area within 2 km62 hectares104 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km22
Sights concentration. Stockholm leads by 39 points.39
IzmirStockholm
Score4079
Notable places within 2 km39357
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Izmir leads by 32 points.32
IzmirStockholm
Score8957
Price level global35.280.3
Daily budget€100€169
Year-round weather. Izmir leads by 19 points.19
IzmirStockholm
Score7253
Monthly daytime high13 °C to 33.9 °C1 °C to 23.6 °C
Monthly rainfall1 mm to 127 mm27 mm to 66 mm
Dry months55
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
Stockholm
1
1
5
11
17
21
24
22
17
10
5
3
Sea temperature, °C
Izmir
16
16
16
17
19
22
23
24
23
21
19
17
Stockholm
3
2
2
3
7
12
16
17
14
10
7
5
Rainfall, mm
Izmir
119
107
77
51
33
13
1
4
22
55
96
127
Stockholm
37
29
27
29
34
61
60
66
53
51
47
47
Daylight, hours per day
Izmir
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Stockholm
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Sunshine, hours per day
Izmir
5
5
7
8
10
11
13
12
10
8
6
4
Stockholm
1
2
5
7
9
9
9
8
6
3
1
1

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Izmir: 1991-2020 normals, Izmir (3.4 km from centre). Stockholm: 1991-2020 normals, Stockholm Observatoriet (26.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromIzmirStockholm
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 5 m
€46-55
ADB · 13 km
3 h 15 m
€138-141
ARN · 36 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 45 m
€119-184
ADB · 13 km
2 h 25 m
€89-139
ARN · 36 km
AnkaraESB
1 h 20 m
€54-66
ADB · 13 km
3 h 30 m
no fares
ARN · 36 km
CopenhagenCPH
3 h 10 m
no fares
MJT · 86 km
1 h 20 m
€84-99
ARN · 36 km
OsloOSL, TRF
3 h 55 m
no fares
SMI · 83 km
1 h 5 m
€77-102
1 stop
ARN · 36 km
AmsterdamAMS
3 h 25 m
€221-272
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
2 h 0 m
€153-185
ARN · 36 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
3 h 0 m
€204-238
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
2 h 5 m
€152-213
1 stop
ARN · 36 km
MunichMUC
2 h 40 m
€185-288
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
2 h 15 m
€202-238
1 stop
ARN · 36 km
BerlinBER
2 h 55 m
€177-214
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
1 h 40 m
€88-97
ARN · 36 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
4 h 15 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
6 h 20 m
€330-429
1 stop
ARN · 36 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

MeasureIzmirStockholm
Official languageTurkishSwedish
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Swedish Krona (SEK)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation2 m22 m
Main airportAdnan Menderes International Airport (ADB)13 km from centre120 non-stop destinationsStockholm-Arlanda Airport (ARN)36 km from centre172 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureIzmirStockholm
City population4,493,242984,748
People per km²4,7605,260
Museums within 10 km29266
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Distinct cuisines in the centre2081
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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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.