VacationSelector

Antalya or Barcelona?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Antalya
52
match

Wins on value for money and beaches & swimming with your weighting.

Barcelona
✓ Best match
71
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.

AntalyaBarcelona
Beaches & swimming. Antalya leads by 7 points.7
AntalyaBarcelona
Score7265
Swim season months73
Beaches 10 km1120
Coast distance1 km2 km
Water distance1 km2 km
Places to eat. Barcelona leads by 45 points.45
AntalyaBarcelona
Score4590
Restaurants within 2 km of centre6383,786
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1141
Museums & heritage. Barcelona leads by 43 points.43
AntalyaBarcelona
Score2568
Museums within 10 km11105
Museums within 2 km of centre849
Share of museums within 2 km %7347
Unesco sites within 50 km03
Nightlife. Barcelona leads by 23 points.23
AntalyaBarcelona
Score5982
Drinking venues within 4 km9172,711
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre5161,641
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5661
Nightclubs within 4 km55245
Nature & day trips. Barcelona leads by 9 points.9
AntalyaBarcelona
Score4150
Protected land share 50 km %810
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %6951
Park area within 2 km69 hectares49 hectares
Good for families. Barcelona leads by 25 points.25
AntalyaBarcelona
Score4065
Tourist attractions within 2 km660
Park area within 2 km69 hectares49 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km53
Sights concentration. Barcelona leads by 46 points.46
AntalyaBarcelona
Score2773
Notable places within 2 km19258
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Antalya leads by 18 points.18
AntalyaBarcelona
Score8971
Price level global35.260.8
Daily budget€100€122
Year-round weather. Barcelona leads by 7 points.7
AntalyaBarcelona
Score7178
Monthly daytime high15.3 °C to 34.8 °C13.9 °C to 28.9 °C
Monthly rainfall2 mm to 273 mm27 mm to 83 mm
Dry months45
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
Antalya
15
16
19
22
26
31
35
35
32
27
22
17
Barcelona
14
14
16
19
22
26
28
29
26
22
18
15
Sea temperature, °C
Antalya
18
17
17
18
21
25
28
29
28
25
22
20
Barcelona
14
13
13
14
17
21
24
25
24
21
17
15
Rainfall, mm
Antalya
215
114
97
63
41
8
2
2
18
80
145
273
Barcelona
41
32
40
47
44
27
27
51
83
82
45
36
Daylight, hours per day
Antalya
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
13
11
10
10
Barcelona
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Antalya
5
6
7
8
10
11
12
11
9
8
6
5
Barcelona
5
5
7
8
8
9
10
9
7
6
4
4

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Antalya: 1991-2020 normals, Antalya (23.4 km from centre). Barcelona: 1991-2020 normals, Barcelona / Aeropuerto (14.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAntalyaBarcelona
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 15 m
€53-68
AYT · 9 km
3 h 15 m
€173-293
BCN · 13 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
4 h 5 m
€125-143
AYT · 9 km
2 h 0 m
€37-96
BCN · 13 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
3 h 45 m
no fares
AYT · 9 km
1 h 40 m
€79-101
BCN · 13 km
DusseldorfDUS, NRN
3 h 35 m
€145-183
AYT · 9 km
2 h 0 m
€98-140
BCN · 13 km
AmsterdamAMS
3 h 45 m
€216-244
AYT · 9 km
2 h 10 m
€132-158
BCN · 13 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
3 h 20 m
€171-231
1 stop
AYT · 9 km
1 h 55 m
€62-99
BCN · 13 km
BerlinBER
3 h 15 m
€135-164
AYT · 9 km
2 h 25 m
€86-204
BCN · 13 km
MunichMUC
3 h 0 m
€154-247
AYT · 9 km
1 h 55 m
€121-137
BCN · 13 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
3 h 45 m
€168-195
1 stop
AYT · 9 km
1 h 55 m
€77-116
BCN · 13 km
BakuGYD
2 h 40 m
no fares
AYT · 9 km
5 h 20 m
no fares
BCN · 13 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

MeasureAntalyaBarcelona
Official languageTurkishSpanish
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation30 m9 m
Main airportAntalya International Airport (AYT)9 km from centre33 non-stop destinationsJosep Tarradellas Barcelona-El Prat Airport (BCN)13 km from centre229 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureAntalyaBarcelona
City population2,426,3561,731,649
People per km²1,71217,094
Museums within 10 km595
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Distinct cuisines in the centre22128
Swim season, months above 21 °C7 months3 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.