VacationSelector

Izmir or Zagreb?

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 beaches & swimming and year-round weather with your weighting.

Zagreb
47
match

Wins on sights concentration 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.

IzmirZagreb
Beaches & swimming. Izmir leads by 55 points.55
IzmirZagreb
Score550
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km48
Coast distance1 km117 km
Water distance1 km—
Places to eat. Zagreb leads by 3 points.3
IzmirZagreb
Score4952
Restaurants within 2 km of centre770374
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1227
Museums & heritage. Zagreb leads by 2 points.2
IzmirZagreb
Score4345
Museums within 10 km4741
Museums within 2 km of centre2740
Share of museums within 2 km %5798
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Izmir leads by 1 points.1
IzmirZagreb
Score6261
Drinking venues within 4 km1,0281,009
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre695571
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6857
Nightclubs within 4 km7063
Nature & day trips. Zagreb leads by 5 points.5
IzmirZagreb
Score2934
Protected land share 50 km %49
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %84100
Park area within 2 km62 hectares52 hectares
Good for families. Izmir leads by 7 points.7
IzmirZagreb
Score3528
Tourist attractions within 2 km67
Park area within 2 km62 hectares52 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km20
Sights concentration. Zagreb leads by 20 points.20
IzmirZagreb
Score4060
Notable places within 2 km39122
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Izmir leads by 9 points.9
IzmirZagreb
Score8980
Price level global35.248.5
Daily budget€100€138
Year-round weather. Izmir leads by 10 points.10
IzmirZagreb
Score7262
Monthly daytime high13 °C to 33.9 °C5.4 °C to 28.5 °C
Monthly rainfall1 mm to 127 mm47 mm to 104 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
Zagreb
5
8
13
18
23
27
29
28
22
17
11
6
Sea temperature, °C
Izmir
16
16
16
17
19
22
23
24
23
21
19
17
Zagreb
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Izmir
119
107
77
51
33
13
1
4
22
55
96
127
Zagreb
47
48
49
63
76
90
87
85
104
91
88
63
Daylight, hours per day
Izmir
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Zagreb
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Izmir
5
5
7
8
10
11
13
12
10
8
6
4
Zagreb
2
4
5
6
8
9
9
9
6
4
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Izmir: 1991-2020 normals, Izmir (3.4 km from centre). Zagreb: 1991-2020 normals, Zagreb / Gric (0.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromIzmirZagreb
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 5 m
€46-55
ADB · 13 km
2 h 0 m
€153-254
ZAG · 11 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
3 h 0 m
€204-238
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 45 m
€119-184
ADB · 13 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
MunichMUC
2 h 40 m
€185-288
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
AmsterdamAMS
3 h 25 m
€221-272
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
3 h 20 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
DusseldorfDUS, NRN
3 h 10 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
3 h 20 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
ViennaVIE
2 h 20 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
DohaDOH
3 h 45 m
no fares
BJV · 137 km
5 h 15 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 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

MeasureIzmirZagreb
Official languageTurkishCroatian
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 m127 m
Main airportAdnan Menderes International Airport (ADB)13 km from centre120 non-stop destinationsZagreb Franjo Tuđman International Airport (ZAG)11 km from centre60 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureIzmirZagreb
City population4,493,242767,131
People per km²4,760–
Museums within 10 km2927
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre2042
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 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.