VacationSelector

Antalya or Cologne?

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

Your match

Antalya
52
match

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

Cologne
✓ Best match
57
match

Wins on museums & heritage and good for families 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.

AntalyaCologne
Beaches & swimming. Antalya leads by 72 points.72
AntalyaCologne
Score720
Swim season months70
Beaches 10 km1140
Coast distance1 km256 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Cologne leads by 27 points.27
AntalyaCologne
Score4572
Restaurants within 2 km of centre6381,142
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1135
Museums & heritage. Cologne leads by 35 points.35
AntalyaCologne
Score2560
Museums within 10 km1147
Museums within 2 km of centre827
Share of museums within 2 km %7357
Unesco sites within 50 km03
Nightlife. Cologne leads by 5 points.5
AntalyaCologne
Score5964
Drinking venues within 4 km9171,107
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre516727
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5666
Nightclubs within 4 km5590
Nature & day trips. Cologne leads by 30 points.30
AntalyaCologne
Score4171
Protected land share 50 km %853
Landscape blanket share 50 km %052
Land share of disc %69100
Park area within 2 km69 hectares118 hectares
Good for families. Cologne leads by 32 points.32
AntalyaCologne
Score4072
Tourist attractions within 2 km643
Park area within 2 km69 hectares118 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km56
Sights concentration. Cologne leads by 26 points.26
AntalyaCologne
Score2753
Notable places within 2 km1981
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Antalya leads by 29 points.29
AntalyaCologne
Score8960
Price level global35.275.9
Daily budget€100€163
Year-round weather. Antalya leads by 11 points.11
AntalyaCologne
Score7160
Monthly daytime high15.3 °C to 34.8 °C6.3 °C to 25 °C
Monthly rainfall2 mm to 273 mm48 mm to 81 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
Cologne
6
7
12
16
20
23
25
25
21
15
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Antalya
18
17
17
18
21
25
28
29
28
25
22
20
Cologne
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Antalya
215
114
97
63
41
8
2
2
18
80
145
273
Cologne
64
56
53
48
60
76
81
81
67
65
68
72
Daylight, hours per day
Antalya
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
13
11
10
10
Cologne
9
10
12
14
16
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Antalya
5
6
7
8
10
11
12
11
9
8
6
5
Cologne
2
2
4
6
7
7
7
6
5
3
2
1

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Antalya: 1991-2020 normals, Antalya (23.4 km from centre). Cologne: 1991-2020 normals, Köln-Stammheim (5.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAntalyaCologne
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 15 m
€53-68
AYT · 9 km
3 h 0 m
€145-156
CGN · 15 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
4 h 5 m
€125-143
AYT · 9 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
CGN · 15 km
MunichMUC
3 h 0 m
€154-247
AYT · 9 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
CGN · 15 km
ViennaVIE
2 h 40 m
€144-173
AYT · 9 km
1 h 35 m
€126-182
CGN · 15 km
BerlinBER
3 h 15 m
€135-164
AYT · 9 km
1 h 15 m
€136-255
1 stop
CGN · 15 km
ManchesterMAN
4 h 20 m
€173-185
AYT · 9 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
CGN · 15 km
AnkaraESB
1 h 10 m
€52-63
AYT · 9 km
3 h 25 m
no fares
CGN · 15 km
IzmirADB
1 h 5 m
€85-92
AYT · 9 km
3 h 10 m
no fares
CGN · 15 km
ZurichZRH
3 h 15 m
€140-159
AYT · 9 km
1 h 10 m
€174-186
1 stop
CGN · 15 km
HamburgHAM, XFW, LBC
3 h 35 m
€155-172
AYT · 9 km
1 h 5 m
€250-293
1 stop
CGN · 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

MeasureAntalyaCologne
Official languageTurkishGerman
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 m59 m
Main airportAntalya International Airport (AYT)9 km from centre33 non-stop destinationsCologne Bonn Airport (CGN)15 km from centre113 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureAntalyaCologne
City population2,426,3561,024,621
People per km²1,7122,530
Museums within 10 km540
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Distinct cuisines in the centre2284
Swim season, months above 21 °C7 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.