VacationSelector

Izmir or Valencia?

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.

Valencia
✓ 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.

IzmirValencia
Beaches & swimming. Valencia leads by 12 points.12
IzmirValencia
Score5567
Swim season months55
Beaches 10 km412
Coast distance1 km3 km
Water distance1 km3 km
Places to eat. Valencia leads by 29 points.29
IzmirValencia
Score4978
Restaurants within 2 km of centre7701,995
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1233
Museums & heritage. Valencia leads by 12 points.12
IzmirValencia
Score4355
Museums within 10 km4759
Museums within 2 km of centre2726
Share of museums within 2 km %5744
Unesco sites within 50 km02
Nightlife. Valencia leads by 8 points.8
IzmirValencia
Score6270
Drinking venues within 4 km1,0281,513
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre695957
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6863
Nightclubs within 4 km70108
Nature & day trips. Valencia leads by 24 points.24
IzmirValencia
Score2953
Protected land share 50 km %410
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %8464
Park area within 2 km62 hectares119 hectares
Good for families. Valencia leads by 7 points.7
IzmirValencia
Score3542
Tourist attractions within 2 km612
Park area within 2 km62 hectares119 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km20
Sights concentration. Valencia leads by 12 points.12
IzmirValencia
Score4052
Notable places within 2 km3978
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Izmir leads by 18 points.18
IzmirValencia
Score8971
Price level global35.260.8
Daily budget€100€122
Year-round weather. Valencia leads by 12 points.12
IzmirValencia
Score7284
Monthly daytime high13 °C to 33.9 °C16.8 °C to 30.6 °C
Monthly rainfall1 mm to 127 mm7 mm to 70 mm
Dry months58
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
Valencia
17
17
19
21
24
28
30
31
28
25
20
17
Sea temperature, °C
Izmir
16
16
16
17
19
22
23
24
23
21
19
17
Valencia
14
14
14
16
18
22
25
26
25
22
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Izmir
119
107
77
51
33
13
1
4
22
55
96
127
Valencia
38
30
40
33
36
26
7
15
70
66
52
48
Daylight, hours per day
Izmir
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Valencia
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Izmir
5
5
7
8
10
11
13
12
10
8
6
4
Valencia
6
6
7
8
9
9
10
10
8
7
6
5

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Izmir: 1991-2020 normals, Izmir (3.4 km from centre). Valencia: 1991-2020 normals, Valencia (1.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromIzmirValencia
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 5 m
€46-55
ADB · 13 km
3 h 35 m
€167-378
VLC · 9 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 45 m
€119-184
ADB · 13 km
2 h 15 m
€80-167
VLC · 9 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
3 h 20 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
1 h 55 m
€103-131
VLC · 9 km
AmsterdamAMS
3 h 25 m
€221-272
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
2 h 25 m
€155-178
VLC · 9 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
3 h 0 m
€204-238
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
2 h 15 m
€128-199
1 stop
VLC · 9 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
3 h 20 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
2 h 15 m
€110-139
VLC · 9 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 15 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
2 h 0 m
€70-117
VLC · 9 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 40 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
1 h 50 m
€51-87
VLC · 9 km
DusseldorfDUS, NRN
3 h 10 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
2 h 20 m
€127-155
1 stop
VLC · 9 km
MadridMAD
3 h 45 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
1 h 0 m
€69-81
VLC · 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

MeasureIzmirValencia
Official languageTurkishSpanish
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 m15 m
Main airportAdnan Menderes International Airport (ADB)13 km from centre120 non-stop destinationsValencia Airport (VLC)9 km from centre107 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureIzmirValencia
City population4,493,242840,792
People per km²4,7606,242
Museums within 10 km2946
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Distinct cuisines in the centre2092
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months5 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.