VacationSelector

Izmir or Washington DC?

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 beaches & swimming with your weighting.

Washington DC
52
match

Wins on sights concentration and places to eat 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.

IzmirWashington DC
Beaches & swimming. Izmir leads by 37 points.37
IzmirWashington DC
Score5518
Swim season months53
Beaches 10 km41
Coast distance1 km34 km
Water distance1 km34 km
Places to eat. Washington DC leads by 28 points.28
IzmirWashington DC
Score4977
Restaurants within 2 km of centre7701,666
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1236
Museums & heritage. Washington DC leads by 12 points.12
IzmirWashington DC
Score4355
Museums within 10 km4783
Museums within 2 km of centre2755
Share of museums within 2 km %5766
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Izmir leads by 1 points.1
IzmirWashington DC
Score6261
Drinking venues within 4 km1,0281,029
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre695593
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6858
Nightclubs within 4 km7054
Nature & day trips. Washington DC leads by 13 points.13
IzmirWashington DC
Score2942
Protected land share 50 km %410
Landscape blanket share 50 km %01
Land share of disc %8494
Park area within 2 km62 hectares96 hectares
Good for families. Washington DC leads by 3 points.3
IzmirWashington DC
Score3538
Tourist attractions within 2 km67
Park area within 2 km62 hectares96 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km21
Sights concentration. Washington DC leads by 36 points.36
IzmirWashington DC
Score4076
Notable places within 2 km39305
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Izmir leads by 46 points.46
IzmirWashington DC
Score8943
Price level global35.2100
Daily budget€100—
Year-round weather. Izmir leads by 10 points.10
IzmirWashington DC
Score7262
Monthly daytime high13 °C to 33.9 °C7 °C to 31.7 °C
Monthly rainfall1 mm to 127 mm65 mm to 108 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
Washington DC
7
9
13
20
24
29
32
31
27
21
14
9
Sea temperature, °C
Izmir
16
16
16
17
19
22
23
24
23
21
19
17
Washington DC
3
3
4
9
14
20
25
26
23
18
12
7
Rainfall, mm
Izmir
119
107
77
51
33
13
1
4
22
55
96
127
Washington DC
72
65
89
82
101
107
108
83
100
93
74
86
Daylight, hours per day
Izmir
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Washington DC
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Izmir
5
5
7
8
10
11
13
12
10
8
6
4
Washington DC
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). Washington DC: 1991-2020 normals, Washington National Airport (5 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromIzmirWashington DC
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 5 m
€46-55
ADB · 13 km
10 h 30 m
no fares
IAD · 37 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 45 m
€119-184
ADB · 13 km
7 h 35 m
€507-561
1 stop
IAD · 37 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
3 h 0 m
€204-238
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
8 h 20 m
no fares
IAD · 37 km
MunichMUC
2 h 40 m
€185-288
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
8 h 45 m
no fares
IAD · 37 km
AthensATH
1 h 0 m
no fares
SMI · 83 km
10 h 25 m
no fares
IAD · 37 km
AmsterdamAMS
3 h 25 m
€221-272
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
8 h 0 m
no fares
IAD · 37 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
3 h 20 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
8 h 0 m
no fares
IAD · 37 km
ZurichZRH
2 h 50 m
€161-180
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
8 h 30 m
no fares
IAD · 37 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
3 h 20 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
8 h 0 m
no fares
IAD · 37 km
Abu DhabiAUH
4 h 15 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
14 h 5 m
no fares
IAD · 37 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

MeasureIzmirWashington DC
Official languageTurkish–
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation2 m72 m
Main airportAdnan Menderes International Airport (ADB)13 km from centre120 non-stop destinationsRonald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA)5 km from centre103 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureIzmirWashington DC
City population4,493,242689,545
People per km²4,7603,896
Museums within 10 km2999
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre2082
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months3 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.