VacationSelector

Izmir or Sydney?

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 with your weighting.

Sydney
✓ Best match
64
match

Wins on places to eat 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.

IzmirSydney
Beaches & swimming. Sydney leads by 5 points.5
IzmirSydney
Score5560
Swim season months56
Beaches 10 km4160
Coast distance1 km7 km
Water distance1 km7 km
Places to eat. Sydney leads by 29 points.29
IzmirSydney
Score4978
Restaurants within 2 km of centre7702,205
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1231
Museums & heritage. Sydney leads by 8 points.8
IzmirSydney
Score4351
Museums within 10 km4744
Museums within 2 km of centre2720
Share of museums within 2 km %5745
Unesco sites within 50 km02
Nightlife. Sydney leads by 13 points.13
IzmirSydney
Score6275
Drinking venues within 4 km1,0282,050
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre6951,405
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6869
Nightclubs within 4 km70120
Nature & day trips. Sydney leads by 29 points.29
IzmirSydney
Score2958
Protected land share 50 km %410
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %8452
Park area within 2 km62 hectares115 hectares
Good for families. Sydney leads by 29 points.29
IzmirSydney
Score3564
Tourist attractions within 2 km637
Park area within 2 km62 hectares115 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km22
Sights concentration. Sydney leads by 20 points.20
IzmirSydney
Score4060
Notable places within 2 km39123
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Izmir leads by 39 points.39
IzmirSydney
Score8950
Price level global35.290.2
Daily budget€100
Year-round weather. Sydney leads by 9 points.9
IzmirSydney
Score7281
Monthly daytime high13 °C to 33.9 °C17.7 °C to 27.7 °C
Monthly rainfall1 mm to 127 mm55 mm to 121 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
Sydney
28
27
26
23
21
18
18
19
22
24
25
26
Sea temperature, °C
Izmir
16
16
16
17
19
22
23
24
23
21
19
17
Sydney
23
23
23
22
21
20
19
18
18
19
20
21
Rainfall, mm
Izmir
119
107
77
51
33
13
1
4
22
55
96
127
Sydney
80
116
90
95
89
121
70
63
57
55
71
68
Daylight, hours per day
Izmir
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Sydney
14
13
12
11
10
10
10
11
12
13
14
14
Sunshine, hours per day
Izmir
5
5
7
8
10
11
13
12
10
8
6
4
Sydney
8
6
7
7
7
6
7
8
8
8
7
8

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Izmir: 1991-2020 normals, Izmir (3.4 km from centre). Sydney: 1991-2020 normals, Sydney Airport (3.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromIzmirSydney
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 5 m
€46-55
ADB · 13 km
18 h 15 m
no fares
SYD · 9 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 45 m
€119-184
ADB · 13 km
20 h 40 m
€931-1073
1 stop
SYD · 9 km
DohaDOH
3 h 45 m
no fares
BJV · 137 km
15 h 15 m
€997-1100
SYD · 9 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
3 h 20 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
20 h 35 m
no fares
SYD · 9 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

MeasureIzmirSydney
Official languageTurkishEnglish
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Australian Dollar (AUD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzI230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+3UTC+10, UTC+11 in summer
Emergency number112000
Elevation2 m6 m
Main airportAdnan Menderes International Airport (ADB)13 km from centre120 non-stop destinationsSydney Kingsford Smith International Airport (SYD)9 km from centre94 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureIzmirSydney
City population4,493,2425,450,496
People per km²4,760449
Museums within 10 km2938
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Distinct cuisines in the centre2079
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months6 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.