VacationSelector

Izmir or Toronto?

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, 1 point apart

Izmir
53
match

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

Toronto
54
match

Wins on places to eat and good for families with your weighting.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

IzmirToronto
Beaches & swimming. Izmir leads by 12 points.12
IzmirToronto
Score5543
Swim season months51
Beaches 10 km458
Coast distance1 km533 km
Water distance1 km5 km
Places to eat. Toronto leads by 33 points.33
IzmirToronto
Score4982
Restaurants within 2 km of centre7702,133
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1239
Museums & heritage. Izmir and Toronto are level on 43.
IzmirToronto
Score4343
Museums within 10 km4735
Museums within 2 km of centre2725
Share of museums within 2 km %5771
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Toronto leads by 7 points.7
IzmirToronto
Score6269
Drinking venues within 4 km1,0281,500
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre695966
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6864
Nightclubs within 4 km70103
Nature & day trips. Izmir leads by 3 points.3
IzmirToronto
Score2926
Protected land share 50 km %42
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %84100
Park area within 2 km62 hectares68 hectares
Good for families. Toronto leads by 22 points.22
IzmirToronto
Score3557
Tourist attractions within 2 km623
Park area within 2 km62 hectares68 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km24
Sights concentration. Toronto leads by 21 points.21
IzmirToronto
Score4061
Notable places within 2 km39128
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Izmir leads by 35 points.35
IzmirToronto
Score8954
Price level global35.284
Daily budget€100—
Year-round weather. Izmir leads by 17 points.17
IzmirToronto
Score7255
Monthly daytime high13 °C to 33.9 °C-0.2 °C to 27.4 °C
Monthly rainfall1 mm to 127 mm51 mm to 85 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
Toronto
0
0
5
12
19
24
27
26
22
15
8
2
Sea temperature, °C
Izmir
16
16
16
17
19
22
23
24
23
21
19
17
Toronto
4
3
3
4
7
15
20
21
19
13
8
5
Rainfall, mm
Izmir
119
107
77
51
33
13
1
4
22
55
96
127
Toronto
62
58
51
74
58
85
83
69
62
75
65
66
Daylight, hours per day
Izmir
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Toronto
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
Toronto
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Izmir: 1991-2020 normals, Izmir (3.4 km from centre). Toronto: 1991-2020 normals, Toronto City (1.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromIzmirToronto
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 5 m
€46-55
ADB · 13 km
10 h 15 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
3 h 0 m
€204-238
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
8 h 10 m
€510-561
YYZ · 20 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 45 m
€119-184
ADB · 13 km
7 h 25 m
€443-479
1 stop
YYZ · 20 km
DublinDUB
4 h 15 m
€231-257
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
6 h 50 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
AmsterdamAMS
3 h 25 m
€221-272
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
7 h 45 m
€533-534
1 stop
YYZ · 20 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
3 h 20 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
7 h 45 m
€477
YYZ · 20 km
BerlinBER
2 h 55 m
€177-214
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
8 h 20 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
MunichMUC
2 h 40 m
€185-288
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
8 h 30 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
LisbonLIS
4 h 20 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
7 h 25 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
4 h 15 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
13 h 40 m
€717-891
YYZ · 20 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

MeasureIzmirToronto
Official languageTurkishFrench, English
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation2 m76 m
Main airportAdnan Menderes International Airport (ADB)13 km from centre120 non-stop destinationsToronto Pearson International Airport (YYZ)20 km from centre189 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureIzmirToronto
City population4,493,2422,794,356
People per km²4,7604,434
Museums within 10 km2932
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre20102
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months1 month

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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.