VacationSelector

Antalya or Cardiff?

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

Your match

Antalya
✓ Best match
52
match

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

Cardiff
48
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.

AntalyaCardiff
Beaches & swimming. Antalya leads by 26 points.26
AntalyaCardiff
Score7246
Swim season months70
Beaches 10 km118
Coast distance1 km2 km
Water distance1 km2 km
Places to eat. Cardiff leads by 15 points.15
AntalyaCardiff
Score4560
Restaurants within 2 km of centre638541
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1132
Museums & heritage. Cardiff leads by 14 points.14
AntalyaCardiff
Score2539
Museums within 10 km1161
Museums within 2 km of centre86
Share of museums within 2 km %7310
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Antalya leads by 11 points.11
AntalyaCardiff
Score5948
Drinking venues within 4 km917536
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre516395
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5674
Nightclubs within 4 km5535
Nature & day trips. Cardiff leads by 9 points.9
AntalyaCardiff
Score4150
Protected land share 50 km %818
Landscape blanket share 50 km %015
Land share of disc %6968
Park area within 2 km69 hectares88 hectares
Good for families. Antalya leads by 8 points.8
AntalyaCardiff
Score4032
Tourist attractions within 2 km64
Park area within 2 km69 hectares88 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km52
Sights concentration. Cardiff leads by 18 points.18
AntalyaCardiff
Score2745
Notable places within 2 km1951
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Antalya leads by 35 points.35
AntalyaCardiff
Score8954
Price level global35.284.9
Daily budget€100
Year-round weather. Antalya leads by 17 points.17
AntalyaCardiff
Score7154
Monthly daytime high15.3 °C to 34.8 °C7.7 °C to 20.2 °C
Monthly rainfall2 mm to 273 mm49 mm to 87 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
Cardiff
8
8
10
13
16
18
20
20
18
14
11
9
Sea temperature, °C
Antalya
18
17
17
18
21
25
28
29
28
25
22
20
Cardiff
8
7
8
9
12
15
17
18
17
15
12
9
Rainfall, mm
Antalya
215
114
97
63
41
8
2
2
18
80
145
273
Cardiff
77
55
49
54
56
56
61
66
54
87
83
79
Daylight, hours per day
Antalya
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
13
11
10
10
Cardiff
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Antalya
5
6
7
8
10
11
12
11
9
8
6
5
Cardiff
2
3
4
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Antalya: 1991-2020 normals, Antalya (23.4 km from centre). Cardiff: 1991-2020 normals, Cardiff-Wales Airport (14.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAntalyaCardiff
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 15 m
€53-68
AYT · 9 km
3 h 45 m
no fares
BHX · 146 km
DusseldorfDUS, NRN
3 h 35 m
€145-183
AYT · 9 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
BHX · 146 km
CologneCGN
3 h 30 m
€164-202
AYT · 9 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
BHX · 146 km
ZurichZRH
3 h 15 m
€140-159
AYT · 9 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
PraguePRG
3 h 0 m
€160-165
AYT · 9 km
2 h 5 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
BerlinBER
3 h 15 m
€135-164
AYT · 9 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
3 h 20 m
€171-231
1 stop
AYT · 9 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
BHX · 146 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
2 h 50 m
€147-160
AYT · 9 km
2 h 30 m
no fares
BHX · 146 km
MunichMUC
3 h 0 m
€154-247
AYT · 9 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
AmsterdamAMS
3 h 45 m
€216-244
AYT · 9 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
CWL · 15 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

MeasureAntalyaCardiff
Official languageTurkishEnglish
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+3UTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112112 or 999
Elevation30 m41 m
Main airportAntalya International Airport (AYT)9 km from centre33 non-stop destinationsCardiff International Airport (CWL)15 km from centre8 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureAntalyaCardiff
City population2,426,356383,536
People per km²1,7122,734
Museums within 10 km59
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre2255
Swim season, months above 21 °C7 monthsNone

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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.