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Antalya or Cairo?

Two destinations compared in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

The old harbour in Kaleiçi, Antalya
Antalya

Photo: Furkan Tumer, Pexels License

The pyramids of Giza, Cairo
Cairo

Photo: Ricardo Liberato, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped

Your match

Antalya
✓ Best match
61
match

Wins on beaches and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Cairo
50
match

Wins on culture and sights and prices with your weighting.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

Scoreboard

Our verdict on each category, scored 0 to 100 against fixed benchmark cities.

AntalyaCairo
Beaches & swimming. Antalya leads by 72 points.72
Food & drink. Cairo leads by 3 points.3
Culture & sights. Cairo leads by 41 points.41
Nightlife. Antalya and Cairo are level on 48.
Nature & outdoors. Antalya leads by 53 points.53
Day trips. Antalya leads by 12 points.12
Good for families. Antalya leads by 42 points.42
Getting around. Antalya leads by 15 points.15
Shopping & style. Cairo leads by 14 points.14
Affordability. Cairo leads by 33 points.33
Live music & performing arts. Cairo leads by 10 points.10
Wellness & relaxation. Antalya leads by 47 points.47
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Antalya and Cairo.

When should you go?

Pick the month you can travel and see both cities side by side. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Climate figures for July
JulyAntalyaCairo
Daytime high35 °C36 °C
Night-time low24 °C23 °C
Rainfall in the month2 mm0 mm
Sunshine12 hours a day12 hours a day
Sea temperature28 °CNo sea
Daylight14 hours a day14 hours a day

The whole year

Each row is shaded against that destination’s own year, so the deepest cell is its best month for that figure and the palest its weakest. Shades are not comparable between the two rows.

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F
M
A
M
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J
A
S
O
N
D
Daytime high, °C
Antalya
15
16
19
22
26
31
35
35
32
27
22
17
Cairo
19
21
24
29
33
35
36
36
34
30
26
21
Sea temperature, °C
Antalya
18
17
17
18
21
25
28
29
28
25
22
20
Cairo
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Antalya
215
114
97
63
41
8
2
2
18
80
145
273
Cairo
6
5
10
1
1
0
0
0
0
1
1
7
Daylight, hours per day
Antalya
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
13
11
10
10
Cairo
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
12
11
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Antalya
5
6
7
8
10
11
12
11
9
8
6
5
Cairo
7
7
9
9
11
11
12
11
10
10
9
7

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Antalya: 1991-2020 normals, Antalya (23.4 km from centre). Cairo: 1991-2020 normals, Helwan (21.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAntalyaCairo
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 15 m
€53-68
AYT · 9 km
2 h 10 m
€154-167
CAI · 17 km
MoscowVKO, SVO, DME, ZIA
3 h 10 m
€210-255
AYT · 9 km
4 h 5 m
no fares
CAI · 17 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
4 h 5 m
€125-143
AYT · 9 km
4 h 50 m
€240-288
CAI · 17 km
JeddahJED
2 h 50 m
no fares
AYT · 9 km
2 h 5 m
€158-202
CAI · 17 km
Kuwait CityKWI
2 h 50 m
no fares
AYT · 9 km
2 h 35 m
€137-145
CAI · 17 km
DusseldorfDUS, NRN
3 h 35 m
€145-183
AYT · 9 km
4 h 20 m
€263-501
1 stop
CAI · 17 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
3 h 5 m
no fares
AYT · 9 km
3 h 45 m
€147-173
CAI · 17 km
RiyadhRUH
3 h 0 m
no fares
AYT · 9 km
2 h 35 m
€154-163
CAI · 17 km
CologneCGN
3 h 30 m
€164-202
AYT · 9 km
4 h 15 m
€244-383
1 stop
CAI · 17 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
3 h 20 m
€171-231
1 stop
AYT · 9 km
4 h 5 m
€245-328
1 stop
CAI · 17 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

MeasureAntalyaCairo
Official languageTurkishArabic
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Egyptian Pound (EGP)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112Police 122, ambulance 123, fire 180
Elevation30 m23 m
Main airportAntalya International Airport (AYT)9 km from centre172 non-stop destinationsCairo International Airport (CAI)17 km from centre127 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureAntalyaCairo
City population2,426,3569,801,536
People per km²1,71218,564
Museums within 10 km548
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Swim season, months above 21 °C7 months-

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Sources

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.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate and flight figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-10-27. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.