VacationSelector

Antalya or Catania?

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, level with your weighting

Antalya
52
match

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

Catania
52
match

Wins on museums & heritage and sights concentration 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.

AntalyaCatania
Beaches & swimming. Antalya leads by 14 points.14
AntalyaCatania
Score7258
Swim season months75
Beaches 10 km115
Coast distance1 km1 km
Water distance1 km1 km
Places to eat. Catania leads by 4 points.4
AntalyaCatania
Score4549
Restaurants within 2 km of centre638637
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1114
Museums & heritage. Catania leads by 34 points.34
AntalyaCatania
Score2559
Museums within 10 km1134
Museums within 2 km of centre827
Share of museums within 2 km %7379
Unesco sites within 50 km03
Nightlife. Antalya leads by 12 points.12
AntalyaCatania
Score5947
Drinking venues within 4 km917537
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre516403
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5675
Nightclubs within 4 km5518
Nature & day trips. Antalya leads by 10 points.10
AntalyaCatania
Score4131
Protected land share 50 km %810
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %6961
Park area within 2 km69 hectares11 hectares
Good for families. Antalya leads by 4 points.4
AntalyaCatania
Score4036
Tourist attractions within 2 km625
Park area within 2 km69 hectares11 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km51
Sights concentration. Catania leads by 12 points.12
AntalyaCatania
Score2739
Notable places within 2 km1937
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Antalya leads by 21 points.21
AntalyaCatania
Score8968
Price level global35.264.9
Daily budget€100€155
Year-round weather. Catania leads by 6 points.6
AntalyaCatania
Score7177
Monthly daytime high15.3 °C to 34.8 °C15.8 °C to 34.5 °C
Monthly rainfall2 mm to 273 mm9 mm to 83 mm
Dry months45
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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D
Daytime high, °C
Antalya
15
16
19
22
26
31
35
35
32
27
22
17
Catania
16
16
19
21
26
31
34
35
30
26
21
17
Sea temperature, °C
Antalya
18
17
17
18
21
25
28
29
28
25
22
20
Catania
15
15
15
16
18
22
25
26
25
23
20
17
Rainfall, mm
Antalya
215
114
97
63
41
8
2
2
18
80
145
273
Catania
65
45
42
32
18
11
9
9
49
51
71
83
Daylight, hours per day
Antalya
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
13
11
10
10
Catania
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Antalya
5
6
7
8
10
11
12
11
9
8
6
5
Catania
4
5
6
7
9
10
11
10
7
6
5
4

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Antalya: 1991-2020 normals, Antalya (23.4 km from centre). Catania: 1991-2020 normals, Catania / Sigonella (18.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAntalyaCatania
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 15 m
€53-68
AYT · 9 km
2 h 10 m
€166-455
CTA · 4 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
4 h 5 m
€125-143
AYT · 9 km
3 h 0 m
€106-144
1 stop
CTA · 4 km
DusseldorfDUS, NRN
3 h 35 m
€145-183
AYT · 9 km
2 h 40 m
€157-220
1 stop
CTA · 4 km
CologneCGN
3 h 30 m
€164-202
AYT · 9 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
CTA · 4 km
BerlinBER
3 h 15 m
€135-164
AYT · 9 km
2 h 35 m
€141-178
1 stop
CTA · 4 km
MunichMUC
3 h 0 m
€154-247
AYT · 9 km
2 h 5 m
€195-231
1 stop
CTA · 4 km
KatowiceKTW
2 h 45 m
€200-201
AYT · 9 km
2 h 25 m
€84-113
CTA · 4 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
3 h 20 m
€171-231
1 stop
AYT · 9 km
2 h 25 m
€101-146
1 stop
CTA · 4 km
ViennaVIE
2 h 40 m
€144-173
AYT · 9 km
2 h 5 m
€115-151
1 stop
CTA · 4 km
BucharestOTP, BBU
1 h 45 m
€101-150
AYT · 9 km
2 h 5 m
€54-109
CTA · 4 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

MeasureAntalyaCatania
Official languageTurkishItalian
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation30 m7 m
Main airportAntalya International Airport (AYT)9 km from centre33 non-stop destinationsCatania-Fontanarossa Airport (CTA)4 km from centre95 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureAntalyaCatania
City population2,426,356311,584
People per km²1,7121,704
Museums within 10 km525
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Distinct cuisines in the centre2230
Swim season, months above 21 °C7 months5 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. 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.