VacationSelector

Antalya or Cancun?

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 nightlife and sights concentration with your weighting.

Cancun
50
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips 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.

AntalyaCancun
Beaches & swimming. Cancun leads by 25 points.25
AntalyaCancun
Score7297
Swim season months712
Beaches 10 km1123
Coast distance1 km3 km
Water distance1 km3 km
Places to eat. Cancun leads by 9 points.9
AntalyaCancun
Score4554
Restaurants within 2 km of centre638681
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1118
Museums & heritage. Antalya leads by 5 points.5
AntalyaCancun
Score2520
Museums within 10 km111
Museums within 2 km of centre81
Share of museums within 2 km %73100
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Antalya leads by 23 points.23
AntalyaCancun
Score5936
Drinking venues within 4 km917270
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre516175
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5665
Nightclubs within 4 km5533
Nature & day trips. Cancun leads by 13 points.13
AntalyaCancun
Score4154
Protected land share 50 km %89
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %6945
Park area within 2 km69 hectares66 hectares
Good for families. Antalya leads by 8 points.8
AntalyaCancun
Score4032
Tourist attractions within 2 km62
Park area within 2 km69 hectares66 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km53
Sights concentration. Antalya leads by 23 points.23
AntalyaCancun
Score274
Notable places within 2 km195
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Antalya leads by 13 points.13
AntalyaCancun
Score8976
Price level global35.254.2
Daily budget€100
Year-round weather. Cancun leads by 10 points.10
AntalyaCancun
Score7181
Monthly daytime high15.3 °C to 34.8 °C26.2 °C to 30.3 °C
Monthly rainfall2 mm to 273 mm38 mm to 224 mm
Dry months41
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
Cancun
26
27
28
29
30
30
30
30
30
29
27
27
Sea temperature, °C
Antalya
18
17
17
18
21
25
28
29
28
25
22
20
Cancun
27
26
26
27
28
28
29
29
29
29
28
27
Rainfall, mm
Antalya
215
114
97
63
41
8
2
2
18
80
145
273
Cancun
63
50
38
41
92
181
89
114
166
224
124
68
Daylight, hours per day
Antalya
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
13
11
10
10
Cancun
11
11
12
13
13
13
13
13
12
12
11
11
Sunshine, hours per day
Antalya
5
6
7
8
10
11
12
11
9
8
6
5
Cancun
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Antalya: 1991-2020 normals, Antalya (23.4 km from centre). Cancun: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

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Getting there

Flying fromAntalyaCancun
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 15 m
€53-68
AYT · 9 km
12 h 55 m
no fares
CUN · 14 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
4 h 5 m
€125-143
AYT · 9 km
10 h 0 m
no fares
CUN · 14 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
3 h 20 m
€171-231
1 stop
AYT · 9 km
10 h 45 m
€657-706
1 stop
CUN · 14 km
AmsterdamAMS
3 h 45 m
€216-244
AYT · 9 km
10 h 25 m
no fares
CUN · 14 km
ManchesterMAN
4 h 20 m
€173-185
AYT · 9 km
9 h 50 m
no fares
CUN · 14 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
2 h 50 m
€147-160
AYT · 9 km
11 h 40 m
no fares
CUN · 14 km
KatowiceKTW
2 h 45 m
€200-201
AYT · 9 km
11 h 35 m
no fares
CUN · 14 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
3 h 45 m
no fares
AYT · 9 km
10 h 20 m
no fares
CUN · 14 km
ZurichZRH
3 h 15 m
€140-159
AYT · 9 km
10 h 55 m
no fares
CUN · 14 km
BirminghamBHX
4 h 15 m
€178-213
AYT · 9 km
9 h 55 m
no fares
CUN · 14 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

MeasureAntalyaCancun
Official languageTurkishSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC-5
Emergency number112911
Elevation30 m5 m
Main airportAntalya International Airport (AYT)9 km from centre33 non-stop destinationsCancún International Airport (CUN)14 km from centre136 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureAntalyaCancun
City population2,426,356888,797
People per km²1,712
Museums within 10 km51
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre2231
Swim season, months above 21 °C7 months12 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. Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. 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.