VacationSelector

Izmir or West Palm Beach?

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 value for money and nightlife with your weighting.

West Palm Beach
42
match

Wins on nature & day trips and beaches & swimming 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.

IzmirWest Palm Beach
Beaches & swimming. West Palm Beach leads by 33 points.33
IzmirWest Palm Beach
Score5588
Swim season months512
Beaches 10 km410
Coast distance1 km0 km
Water distance1 km0 km
Places to eat. Izmir leads by 12 points.12
IzmirWest Palm Beach
Score4937
Restaurants within 2 km of centre770262
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1214
Museums & heritage. Izmir leads by 26 points.26
IzmirWest Palm Beach
Score4317
Museums within 10 km475
Museums within 2 km of centre273
Share of museums within 2 km %5760
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Izmir leads by 42 points.42
IzmirWest Palm Beach
Score6220
Drinking venues within 4 km1,028132
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre69590
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6868
Nightclubs within 4 km7010
Nature & day trips. West Palm Beach leads by 40 points.40
IzmirWest Palm Beach
Score2969
Protected land share 50 km %415
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %8445
Park area within 2 km62 hectares34 hectares
Good for families. Izmir leads by 14 points.14
IzmirWest Palm Beach
Score3521
Tourist attractions within 2 km63
Park area within 2 km62 hectares34 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km21
Sights concentration. Izmir leads by 28 points.28
IzmirWest Palm Beach
Score4012
Notable places within 2 km398
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Izmir leads by 46 points.46
IzmirWest Palm Beach
Score8943
Price level global35.2100
Daily budget€100
Year-round weather. West Palm Beach leads by 3 points.3
IzmirWest Palm Beach
Score7275
Monthly daytime high13 °C to 33.9 °C24 °C to 32.5 °C
Monthly rainfall1 mm to 127 mm67 mm to 217 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
West Palm Beach
24
25
26
28
30
32
32
33
31
30
27
25
Sea temperature, °C
Izmir
16
16
16
17
19
22
23
24
23
21
19
17
West Palm Beach
25
25
25
26
27
28
29
30
29
28
27
26
Rainfall, mm
Izmir
119
107
77
51
33
13
1
4
22
55
96
127
West Palm Beach
86
67
84
92
126
214
145
217
199
147
88
78
Daylight, hours per day
Izmir
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
West Palm Beach
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11
Sunshine, hours per day
Izmir
5
5
7
8
10
11
13
12
10
8
6
4
West Palm Beach
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). West Palm Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Palm Beach International (5.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromIzmirWest Palm Beach
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 5 m
€46-55
ADB · 13 km
11 h 55 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
MadridMAD
3 h 45 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
9 h 0 m
€522-631
1 stop
MIA · 105 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
3 h 0 m
€204-238
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
9 h 50 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
MunichMUC
2 h 40 m
€185-288
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
10 h 10 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 45 m
€119-184
ADB · 13 km
9 h 0 m
€550-628
1 stop
MIA · 105 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
4 h 15 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
15 h 30 m
€891-1074
2 stops
MIA · 105 km
AmsterdamAMS
3 h 25 m
€221-272
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
9 h 25 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
3 h 20 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
9 h 20 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
DublinDUB
4 h 15 m
€231-257
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
8 h 30 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
3 h 40 m
no fares
SMI · 83 km
10 h 5 m
no fares
MIA · 105 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

MeasureIzmirWest Palm Beach
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 m6 m
Main airportAdnan Menderes International Airport (ADB)13 km from centre120 non-stop destinationsPresident Donald J. Trump International Airport (DJT)6 km from centre37 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureIzmirWest Palm Beach
City population4,493,242117,415
People per km²4,760786
Museums within 10 km294
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre2018
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months12 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.