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Antalya or Doha?

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

A dhow below the towers of West Bay, Doha
Doha

Photo: Gregory Hawken Kramer, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped

Your match

Antalya
✓ Best match
61
match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and day trips with your weighting.

Doha
38
match

Wins on shopping 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.

AntalyaDoha
Beaches & swimming. Antalya leads by 37 points.37
Food & drink. Antalya leads by 2 points.2
Culture & sights. Antalya and Doha are level on 55.
Nightlife. Antalya leads by 28 points.28
Nature & outdoors. Antalya leads by 76 points.76
Day trips. Antalya leads by 73 points.73
Good for families. Antalya leads by 14 points.14
Getting around. Antalya leads by 5 points.5
Shopping & style. Doha leads by 16 points.16
Affordability. Antalya leads by 24 points.24
Live music & performing arts. Antalya leads by 10 points.10
Wellness & relaxation. Antalya leads by 24 points.24
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Antalya and Doha.

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
JulyAntalyaDoha
Daytime high35 °C43 °C
Night-time low24 °C33 °C
Rainfall in the month2 mm0 mm
Sunshine12 hours a dayNo figure
Sea temperature28 °C33 °C
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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Daytime high, °C
Antalya
15
16
19
22
26
31
35
35
32
27
22
17
Doha
23
24
29
33
40
43
43
42
39
36
30
25
Sea temperature, °C
Antalya
18
17
17
18
21
25
28
29
28
25
22
20
Doha
20
19
21
24
28
30
33
34
33
31
27
23
Rainfall, mm
Antalya
215
114
97
63
41
8
2
2
18
80
145
273
Doha
11
11
19
4
2
0
0
0
0
1
7
19
Daylight, hours per day
Antalya
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
13
11
10
10
Doha
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11
Sunshine, hours per day
Antalya
5
6
7
8
10
11
12
11
9
8
6
5
Doha
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Antalya: 1991-2020 normals, Antalya (23.4 km from centre). Doha: 1991-2020 normals, Doha International Airport (5.5 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAntalyaDoha
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 15 m
€53-68
AYT · 9 km
3 h 55 m
€321-368
DOH · 8 km
MoscowVKO, SVO, DME, ZIA
3 h 10 m
€210-255
AYT · 9 km
4 h 50 m
no fares
DOH · 8 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
4 h 5 m
€125-143
AYT · 9 km
6 h 50 m
no fares
DOH · 8 km
DusseldorfDUS, NRN
3 h 35 m
€145-183
AYT · 9 km
6 h 15 m
no fares
DOH · 8 km
PraguePRG
3 h 0 m
€160-165
AYT · 9 km
5 h 40 m
€350-429
1 stop
DOH · 8 km
AlmatyALA
5 h 20 m
€280-315
1 stop
AYT · 9 km
4 h 15 m
€440-550
DOH · 8 km
JeddahJED
2 h 50 m
no fares
AYT · 9 km
2 h 15 m
€239-317
1 stop
DOH · 8 km
RiyadhRUH
3 h 0 m
no fares
AYT · 9 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
DOH · 8 km
Kuwait CityKWI
2 h 50 m
no fares
AYT · 9 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
DOH · 8 km
TashkentTAS
4 h 35 m
no fares
AYT · 9 km
3 h 30 m
€420-433
1 stop
DOH · 8 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

MeasureAntalyaDoha
Official languageTurkishArabic
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Qatari Rial (QAR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzG240 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC+3
Emergency number112999
Elevation30 m0 m
Main airportAntalya International Airport (AYT)9 km from centre172 non-stop destinationsHamad International Airport (DOH)8 km from centre195 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days-

By the numbers

MeasureAntalyaDoha
City population2,426,3561,186,023
People per km²1,7128,985
Museums within 10 km56
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C7 months9 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.