VacationSelector

Izmir or Tromso?

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

Your match

Izmir
✓ Best match
53
match

Wins on nightlife and year-round weather with your weighting.

Tromso
27
match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

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

IzmirTromso
Beaches & swimming. Izmir leads by 3 points.3
IzmirTromso
Score5552
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km414
Coast distance1 km0 km
Water distance1 km0 km
Places to eat. Izmir leads by 25 points.25
IzmirTromso
Score4924
Restaurants within 2 km of centre77085
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1216
Museums & heritage. Izmir leads by 20 points.20
IzmirTromso
Score4323
Museums within 10 km4710
Museums within 2 km of centre278
Share of museums within 2 km %5780
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Izmir leads by 55 points.55
IzmirTromso
Score627
Drinking venues within 4 km1,02867
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre69561
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6891
Nightclubs within 4 km705
Nature & day trips. Izmir leads by 18 points.18
IzmirTromso
Score2911
Protected land share 50 km %49
Landscape blanket share 50 km %09
Land share of disc %8465
Park area within 2 km62 hectares7 hectares
Good for families. Izmir leads by 21 points.21
IzmirTromso
Score3514
Tourist attractions within 2 km69
Park area within 2 km62 hectares7 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km20
Sights concentration. Izmir leads by 12 points.12
IzmirTromso
Score4028
Notable places within 2 km3920
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Izmir leads by 35 points.35
IzmirTromso
Score8954
Price level global35.285.1
Daily budget€100€203
Year-round weather. Izmir leads by 39 points.39
IzmirTromso
Score7233
Monthly daytime high13 °C to 33.9 °C-1.1 °C to 16.3 °C
Monthly rainfall1 mm to 127 mm56 mm to 128 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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F
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M
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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
Tromso
-1
-1
1
4
9
13
16
15
11
5
2
0
Sea temperature, °C
Izmir
16
16
16
17
19
22
23
24
23
21
19
17
Tromso
5
5
4
4
6
8
10
11
10
9
7
6
Rainfall, mm
Izmir
119
107
77
51
33
13
1
4
22
55
96
127
Tromso
108
95
97
71
56
57
73
90
110
128
94
110
Daylight, hours per day
Izmir
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Tromso
2
7
12
16
22
24
24
18
14
9
4
0
Sunshine, hours per day
Izmir
5
5
7
8
10
11
13
12
10
8
6
4
Tromso
0
1
3
6
8
8
8
6
3
2
0
0

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Izmir: 1991-2020 normals, Izmir (3.4 km from centre). Tromso: 1991-2020 normals, Tromso (0.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromIzmirTromso
CopenhagenCPH
3 h 10 m
no fares
MJT · 86 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 45 m
€119-184
ADB · 13 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
GdanskGDN
3 h 5 m
no fares
BJV · 137 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
3 h 0 m
€204-238
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
3 h 40 m
no fares
SMI · 83 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
3 h 20 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
3 h 35 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
ZurichZRH
2 h 50 m
€161-180
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
3 h 40 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
BerlinBER
2 h 55 m
€177-214
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
StuttgartSTR
2 h 50 m
€165-186
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
3 h 30 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
MunichMUC
2 h 40 m
€185-288
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
3 h 30 m
no fares
TOS · 4 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

MeasureIzmirTromso
Official languageTurkishNorwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, Sámi
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Norwegian Krone (NOK)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112Police 112, ambulance 113, fire 110
Elevation2 m20 m
Main airportAdnan Menderes International Airport (ADB)13 km from centre120 non-stop destinationsTromsø Airport (TOS)4 km from centre45 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureIzmirTromso
City population4,493,24279,943
People per km²4,76032
Museums within 10 km298
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre2023
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. 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.