VacationSelector

Izmir or Stuttgart?

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 beaches & swimming and value for money with your weighting.

Stuttgart
51
match

Wins on nature & day trips 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.

IzmirStuttgart
Beaches & swimming. Izmir leads by 55 points.55
IzmirStuttgart
Score550
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km43
Coast distance1 km476 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Stuttgart leads by 10 points.10
IzmirStuttgart
Score4959
Restaurants within 2 km of centre770575
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1229
Museums & heritage. Stuttgart leads by 13 points.13
IzmirStuttgart
Score4356
Museums within 10 km4765
Museums within 2 km of centre2721
Share of museums within 2 km %5732
Unesco sites within 50 km03
Nightlife. Izmir leads by 13 points.13
IzmirStuttgart
Score6249
Drinking venues within 4 km1,028524
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre695374
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6871
Nightclubs within 4 km7053
Nature & day trips. Stuttgart leads by 51 points.51
IzmirStuttgart
Score2980
Protected land share 50 km %451
Landscape blanket share 50 km %031
Land share of disc %84100
Park area within 2 km62 hectares78 hectares
Good for families. Stuttgart leads by 10 points.10
IzmirStuttgart
Score3545
Tourist attractions within 2 km611
Park area within 2 km62 hectares78 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km22
Sights concentration. Stuttgart leads by 4 points.4
IzmirStuttgart
Score4044
Notable places within 2 km3950
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Izmir leads by 29 points.29
IzmirStuttgart
Score8960
Price level global35.275.9
Daily budget€100€163
Year-round weather. Izmir leads by 9 points.9
IzmirStuttgart
Score7263
Monthly daytime high13 °C to 33.9 °C5.6 °C to 25.9 °C
Monthly rainfall1 mm to 127 mm33 mm to 79 mm
Dry months53
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
Stuttgart
6
7
12
16
21
24
26
26
21
16
10
6
Sea temperature, °C
Izmir
16
16
16
17
19
22
23
24
23
21
19
17
Stuttgart
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Izmir
119
107
77
51
33
13
1
4
22
55
96
127
Stuttgart
35
33
43
37
72
77
79
63
49
55
50
50
Daylight, hours per day
Izmir
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Stuttgart
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Izmir
5
5
7
8
10
11
13
12
10
8
6
4
Stuttgart
2
3
5
6
7
7
8
7
6
4
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Izmir: 1991-2020 normals, Izmir (3.4 km from centre). Stuttgart: 1991-2020 normals, Stuttgart / Neckartal (2.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromIzmirStuttgart
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 5 m
€46-55
ADB · 13 km
2 h 40 m
€139-291
STR · 10 km
AntalyaAYT
1 h 5 m
€75-89
ADB · 13 km
3 h 15 m
€194-322
1 stop
STR · 10 km
AnkaraESB
1 h 20 m
€54-66
ADB · 13 km
3 h 10 m
€201-378
1 stop
STR · 10 km
BerlinBER
2 h 55 m
€177-214
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
1 h 15 m
€197-289
1 stop
STR · 10 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 45 m
€119-184
ADB · 13 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
STR · 10 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
3 h 0 m
€204-238
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
50 m
no fares
STR · 10 km
HamburgHAM, XFW, LBC
3 h 10 m
€184-207
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
1 h 20 m
€228-257
STR · 10 km
MunichMUC
2 h 40 m
€185-288
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
55 m
no fares
STR · 10 km
BakuGYD
3 h 0 m
€237-313
ADB · 13 km
4 h 40 m
no fares
FRA · 146 km
TashkentTAS
4 h 55 m
€319-343
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
6 h 10 m
no fares
FRA · 146 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

MeasureIzmirStuttgart
Official languageTurkishGerman
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 m245 m
Main airportAdnan Menderes International Airport (ADB)13 km from centre120 non-stop destinationsStuttgart Airport (STR)10 km from centre121 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureIzmirStuttgart
City population4,493,242633,484
People per km²4,7603,054
Museums within 10 km2942
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Distinct cuisines in the centre2059
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.