Turkey → Spain
Moving to Spain from Istanbul?
The honest version — the climate you'd actually be trading for, and how hard it is to get home. No brochure gloss: just SpainScore's climate normals, Spain's own population register and the real direct-flight map.
The climate you'd be trading for
Istanbul already sits close to the Spanish average on the numbers that matter — but "Spain" isn't one climate. It runs from the wet Atlantic northwest to the dry Mediterranean southeast:
- Vigo Galicia · Atlantic
vs Istanbul: roughly 3× the rain and about 5°C cooler summers. mild, green and wet — Spain’s Atlantic northwest.
- Alacant Costa Blanca · Mediterranean
vs Istanbul: about 3°C milder winters and about half the rain. dry, warm and sunny — the Mediterranean southeast.
- Málaga Costa del Sol · Mediterranean
vs Istanbul: about 4°C milder winters. warm winters on the southern coast.
Climate deltas compare 1991–2020 normals for Istanbul (Meteostat) against the same 30-year measure for each Spanish anchor. Rounded to whole degrees and bucketed rain ratios on purpose — coarse enough that measurement noise can't flip the direction.
Getting back to Istanbul
Direct flights home run year-round from 7 Spanish airports:
- Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport (MAD)
- Alicante-Elche Miguel Hernández Airport (ALC)
- Bilbao Airport (BIO)
- Josep Tarradellas Barcelona-El Prat Airport (BCN)
- Málaga-Costa del Sol Airport (AGP)
- Seville Airport (SVQ)
- Valencia Airport (VLC)
Direct-route map from SpainScore's airport dataset (Spanish-departure scheduled routes). "Getting home easily" is one of the things the quiz can weight for you.
So where in Spain — for you?
Climate, compatriots and flights are three inputs. Your budget, whether you need short medical waits, a city or a village, winter sun or mild summers — those decide the rest. The 3-minute quiz scores all 8,132 Spanish municipalities against what you care about.
Updated 2026 · SpainScore