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The old harbour in Kaleiçi, Antalya
AntalyaThe old harbour in Kaleiçi
The beach with its parasols and the boardwalk, Bethany Beach
Bethany BeachThe beach with its parasols and the boardwalk

Photos: Antalya by Furkan Tumer, Pexels License; Bethany Beach by Doug Olson, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Antalya or Bethany Beach?

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 Antalya for

  • culture and sights
  • nightlife
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Bethany Beach for

Bethany Beach does not lead in any category we score.

What lies behind each score is written up on Bethany Beach’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. Antalya 82, Bethany Beach 72: Antalya leads by 10 points.
Food & drink. Antalya 57, Bethany Beach 35: Antalya leads by 22 points.
Culture & sights. Antalya 55, Bethany Beach 10: Antalya leads by 45 points.
Nightlife. Antalya 48, Bethany Beach 12: Antalya leads by 36 points.
Nature & outdoors. Antalya 83, Bethany Beach 48: Antalya leads by 35 points.
Day trips. Antalya 78, Bethany Beach 45: Antalya leads by 33 points.
Good for families. Antalya 74, Bethany Beach 66: Antalya leads by 8 points.
Getting around. Antalya 50, Bethany Beach 33: Antalya leads by 17 points.
Shopping & style. Antalya 44, Bethany Beach 28: Antalya leads by 16 points.
Affordability. Antalya 62, Bethany Beach 30: Antalya leads by 32 points.
Live music & performing arts. Antalya 40, Bethany Beach 14: Antalya leads by 26 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Antalya 62, Bethany Beach 33: Antalya leads by 29 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Antalya and Bethany Beach.

Your match

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

Antalya
Best match
61match

Wins on culture and sights and nightlife with your weighting.

Bethany Beach
36match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

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

Bethany Beach in July

31 °Cdaytime high
20 °Cnight-time low
95 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
23 °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

Bethany Beach's temperatures are measured 45 km from the centre, at Salisbury / Quail Ridge.

Bethany Beach has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Antalya: 1991-2020 normals, Antalya (23.4 km from centre). Bethany Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Salisbury / Quail Ridge (44.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAntalyaBethany Beach
Official languageTurkish-
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation30 m3 m
Main airportAntalya International Airport (AYT)9 km from centre172 non-stop destinationsSalisbury Ocean City Wicomico Regional Airport (SBY)45 km from centre4 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureAntalyaBethany Beach
City population2,426,356954
People per km²1,712318
Museums within 10 km50
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C7 months3 months

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. 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. 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.