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A palm-lined beach on Akumal Bay, Akumal
AkumalA palm-lined beach on Akumal Bay
The old harbour in Kaleiçi, Antalya
AntalyaThe old harbour in Kaleiçi

Photos: Akumal by Alfonzo Buscemi, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Antalya by Furkan Tumer, Pexels License.

Akumal or Antalya?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Akumal for

  • beaches

What lies behind each score is written up on Akumal’s own page.

Choose Antalya for

  • culture and sights
  • nightlife
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Antalya’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Akumal 88, Antalya 82: Akumal leads by 6 points.
Food & drink. Akumal 28, Antalya 57: Antalya leads by 29 points.
Culture & sights. Akumal 6, Antalya 55: Antalya leads by 49 points.
Nightlife. Akumal 7, Antalya 48: Antalya leads by 41 points.
Nature & outdoors. Akumal 77, Antalya 83: Antalya leads by 6 points.
Day trips. Akumal 68, Antalya 78: Antalya leads by 10 points.
Good for families. Akumal 70, Antalya 74: Antalya leads by 4 points.
Getting around. Akumal 18, Antalya 50: Antalya leads by 32 points.
Shopping & style. Akumal 7, Antalya 44: Antalya leads by 37 points.
Affordability. Akumal 36, Antalya 62: Antalya leads by 26 points.
Live music & performing arts. Akumal 4, Antalya 40: Antalya leads by 36 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Akumal 55, Antalya 62: Antalya leads by 7 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Akumal and Antalya.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Akumal
39match

Wins on beaches with your weighting.

Antalya
Best match
61match

Wins on culture and sights and nightlife with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Akumal in July

30 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
119 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
29 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Antalya in July

35 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
2 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
28 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Akumal has no weather station within reach, so its figures come from a gridded climate model rather than a measured record, and read a broad area rather than the city itself.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Akumal: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km. Antalya: 1991-2020 normals, Antalya (23.4 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAkumalAntalya
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaTurkish
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Turkish Lira (TRY)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5UTC+3
Emergency number911112
Elevation11 m30 m
Main airportCancún International Airport (CUN)85 km from centre135 non-stop destinationsAntalya International Airport (AYT)9 km from centre172 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureAkumalAntalya
City population2,1542,426,356
People per km²-1,712
Museums within 10 km05
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months7 months

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). 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. Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.