VacationSelector

Izmir or Zurich?

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 value for money with your weighting.

Zurich
44
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.

IzmirZurich
Beaches & swimming. Izmir leads by 55 points.55
IzmirZurich
Score550
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km423
Coast distance1 km632 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Zurich leads by 18 points.18
IzmirZurich
Score4967
Restaurants within 2 km of centre770974
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1230
Museums & heritage. Zurich leads by 13 points.13
IzmirZurich
Score4356
Museums within 10 km4776
Museums within 2 km of centre2737
Share of museums within 2 km %5749
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Izmir leads by 8 points.8
IzmirZurich
Score6254
Drinking venues within 4 km1,028676
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre695553
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6882
Nightclubs within 4 km7074
Nature & day trips. Zurich leads by 8 points.8
IzmirZurich
Score2937
Protected land share 50 km %416
Landscape blanket share 50 km %09
Land share of disc %84100
Park area within 2 km62 hectares48 hectares
Good for families. Zurich leads by 1 points.1
IzmirZurich
Score3536
Tourist attractions within 2 km68
Park area within 2 km62 hectares48 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km22
Sights concentration. Zurich leads by 19 points.19
IzmirZurich
Score4059
Notable places within 2 km39119
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Izmir leads by 54 points.54
IzmirZurich
Score8935
Price level global35.2110.5
Daily budget€100€248
Year-round weather. Izmir leads by 19 points.19
IzmirZurich
Score7253
Monthly daytime high13 °C to 33.9 °C3.6 °C to 24.3 °C
Monthly rainfall1 mm to 127 mm60 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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Daytime high, °C
Izmir
13
14
17
21
27
31
34
34
29
24
19
14
Zurich
4
5
10
15
19
22
24
24
19
14
8
4
Sea temperature, °C
Izmir
16
16
16
17
19
22
23
24
23
21
19
17
Zurich
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Izmir
119
107
77
51
33
13
1
4
22
55
96
127
Zurich
62
60
71
80
126
128
126
119
87
85
76
84
Daylight, hours per day
Izmir
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Zurich
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Izmir
5
5
7
8
10
11
13
12
10
8
6
4
Zurich
2
3
5
6
6
7
7
7
5
3
2
1

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Izmir: 1991-2020 normals, Izmir (3.4 km from centre). Zurich: 1991-2020 normals, Zurich Town / Ville. (2.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromIzmirZurich
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 5 m
€46-55
ADB · 13 km
2 h 45 m
€110-133
ZRH · 9 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 45 m
€119-184
ADB · 13 km
1 h 35 m
€110-163
ZRH · 9 km
AnkaraESB
1 h 20 m
€54-66
ADB · 13 km
3 h 10 m
no fares
ZRH · 9 km
BerlinBER
2 h 55 m
€177-214
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
1 h 25 m
€140-176
ZRH · 9 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
3 h 0 m
€204-238
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
ZRH · 9 km
DusseldorfDUS, NRN
3 h 10 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
ZRH · 9 km
AmsterdamAMS
3 h 25 m
€221-272
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
1 h 25 m
€234-276
ZRH · 9 km
AntalyaAYT
1 h 5 m
€75-89
ADB · 13 km
3 h 15 m
€154-180
ZRH · 9 km
ViennaVIE
2 h 20 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
1 h 25 m
€174-215
1 stop
ZRH · 9 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
4 h 15 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
6 h 15 m
€232-366
1 stop
ZRH · 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

MeasureIzmirZurich
Official languageTurkishFrench, German, Italian, Romansh
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Swiss Franc (CHF)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCJ230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation2 m408 m
Main airportAdnan Menderes International Airport (ADB)13 km from centre120 non-stop destinationsZürich Airport (ZRH)9 km from centre181 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureIzmirZurich
City population4,493,242452,421
People per km²4,7605,147
Museums within 10 km2963
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre2078
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.