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The Red Tower and the harbour, Alanya
AlanyaThe Red Tower and the harbour
The Château Grimaldi, home of the Musée Picasso, on the sea walls, Antibes
AntibesThe Château Grimaldi, home of the Musée Picasso, on the sea walls

Photos: Alanya by Atlantic Ambience, Pexels License; Antibes by Johan Allard, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Alanya or Antibes?

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 Alanya for

  • prices
  • nightlife
  • wellness

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

Choose Antibes for

  • day trips
  • live music and the arts
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Antibes’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. Alanya 84, Antibes 80: Alanya leads by 4 points.
Food & drink. Alanya 43, Antibes 50: Antibes leads by 7 points.
Culture & sights. Alanya 44, Antibes 42: Alanya leads by 2 points.
Nightlife. Alanya 58, Antibes 40: Alanya leads by 18 points.
Nature & outdoors. Alanya 68, Antibes 70: Antibes leads by 2 points.
Day trips. Alanya 62, Antibes 88: Antibes leads by 26 points.
Good for families. Alanya 70, Antibes 55: Alanya leads by 15 points.
Getting around. Alanya 50, Antibes 62: Antibes leads by 12 points.
Shopping & style. Alanya 34, Antibes 35: Antibes leads by 1 points.
Affordability. Alanya 65, Antibes 30: Alanya leads by 35 points.
Live music & performing arts. Alanya 15, Antibes 35: Antibes leads by 20 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Alanya 56, Antibes 40: Alanya leads by 16 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Alanya and Antibes.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Alanya
54match

Wins on prices and nightlife with your weighting.

Antibes
52match

Wins on day trips and live music and the arts with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Alanya in July

32 °Cdaytime high
27 °Cnight-time low
3 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
28 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Antibes in July

28 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
13 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
24 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Alanya 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. Alanya: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km. Antibes: 1991-2020 normals, Nice (9.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAlanyaAntibes
Official languageTurkishFrench
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation10 m0 m
Main airportGazipaşa-Alanya Airport (GZP)38 km from centre22 non-stop destinationsNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)11 km from centre130 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureAlanyaAntibes
City population364,18077,637
People per km²2282,930
Museums within 10 km214
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Swim season, months above 21 °C7 months4 months

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Sources

Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national 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). 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. Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. 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.