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Antalya or Bilbao?

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

Your match

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Antalya
52
match

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

Bilbao
54
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.

AntalyaBilbao
Beaches & swimming. Antalya leads by 41 points.41
AntalyaBilbao
Score7231
Swim season months71
Beaches 10 km111
Coast distance1 km0 km
Water distance1 km0 km
Places to eat. Bilbao leads by 17 points.17
AntalyaBilbao
Score4562
Restaurants within 2 km of centre638840
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1126
Museums & heritage. Bilbao leads by 13 points.13
AntalyaBilbao
Score2538
Museums within 10 km1125
Museums within 2 km of centre812
Share of museums within 2 km %7348
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Antalya leads by 1 points.1
AntalyaBilbao
Score5958
Drinking venues within 4 km917869
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre516730
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5684
Nightclubs within 4 km5550
Nature & day trips. Bilbao leads by 12 points.12
AntalyaBilbao
Score4153
Protected land share 50 km %811
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %6970
Park area within 2 km69 hectares119 hectares
Good for families. Bilbao leads by 7 points.7
AntalyaBilbao
Score4047
Tourist attractions within 2 km617
Park area within 2 km69 hectares119 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km50
Sights concentration. Bilbao leads by 25 points.25
AntalyaBilbao
Score2752
Notable places within 2 km1979
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Antalya leads by 18 points.18
AntalyaBilbao
Score8971
Price level global35.260.8
Daily budget€100€122
Year-round weather. Antalya leads by 1 points.1
AntalyaBilbao
Score7170
Monthly daytime high15.3 °C to 34.8 °C13.5 °C to 26.3 °C
Monthly rainfall2 mm to 273 mm53 mm to 170 mm
Dry months40
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
Bilbao
14
14
17
18
21
24
25
26
25
21
17
14
Sea temperature, °C
Antalya
18
17
17
18
21
25
28
29
28
25
22
20
Bilbao
13
13
13
13
15
18
21
22
20
18
16
14
Rainfall, mm
Antalya
215
114
97
63
41
8
2
2
18
80
145
273
Bilbao
131
108
98
96
76
58
54
53
75
112
170
124
Daylight, hours per day
Antalya
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
13
11
10
10
Bilbao
9
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
Bilbao
3
3
5
5
6
6
6
6
5
4
3
3

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Antalya: 1991-2020 normals, Antalya (23.4 km from centre). Bilbao: 1991-2020 normals, Bilbao / Sondica (4.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAntalyaBilbao
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 15 m
€53-68
AYT · 9 km
3 h 45 m
€192-214
BIO · 5 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
4 h 5 m
€125-143
AYT · 9 km
1 h 45 m
€62-91
BIO · 5 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
3 h 20 m
€171-231
1 stop
AYT · 9 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
BIO · 5 km
MunichMUC
3 h 0 m
€154-247
AYT · 9 km
2 h 10 m
€203-242
1 stop
BIO · 5 km
AmsterdamAMS
3 h 45 m
€216-244
AYT · 9 km
2 h 0 m
€196-210
1 stop
BIO · 5 km
DusseldorfDUS, NRN
3 h 35 m
€145-183
AYT · 9 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
BIO · 5 km
ManchesterMAN
4 h 20 m
€173-185
AYT · 9 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
BIO · 5 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
3 h 45 m
no fares
AYT · 9 km
1 h 35 m
€102
BIO · 5 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
3 h 45 m
€168-195
1 stop
AYT · 9 km
1 h 50 m
€157-160
1 stop
BIO · 5 km
BerlinBER
3 h 15 m
€135-164
AYT · 9 km
2 h 30 m
no fares
BIO · 5 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

MeasureAntalyaBilbao
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 m19 m
Main airportAntalya International Airport (AYT)9 km from centre33 non-stop destinationsBilbao Airport (BIO)5 km from centre70 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureAntalyaBilbao
City population2,426,356351,124
People per km²1,7128,440
Museums within 10 km517
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre2254
Swim season, months above 21 °C7 months1 month

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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.