VacationSelector

Antalya or Dubai?

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 nature & day trips and value for money with your weighting.

Dubai
✓ Best match
55
match

Wins on beaches & swimming 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.

AntalyaDubai
Beaches & swimming. Dubai leads by 28 points.28
AntalyaDubai
Score72100
Swim season months712
Beaches 10 km1152
Coast distance1 km0 km
Water distance1 km0 km
Places to eat. Dubai leads by 21 points.21
AntalyaDubai
Score4566
Restaurants within 2 km of centre6381,086
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1126
Museums & heritage. Dubai leads by 13 points.13
AntalyaDubai
Score2538
Museums within 10 km1126
Museums within 2 km of centre818
Share of museums within 2 km %7369
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Antalya leads by 6 points.6
AntalyaDubai
Score5953
Drinking venues within 4 km917601
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre516306
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5651
Nightclubs within 4 km5584
Nature & day trips. Antalya leads by 23 points.23
AntalyaDubai
Score4118
Protected land share 50 km %84
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %6952
Park area within 2 km69 hectares13 hectares
Good for families. Dubai leads by 9 points.9
AntalyaDubai
Score4049
Tourist attractions within 2 km637
Park area within 2 km69 hectares13 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km54
Sights concentration. Dubai leads by 10 points.10
AntalyaDubai
Score2737
Notable places within 2 km1933
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Antalya leads by 20 points.20
AntalyaDubai
Score8969
Price level global35.263.4
Daily budget€100
Year-round weather. Antalya leads by 5 points.5
AntalyaDubai
Score7166
Monthly daytime high15.3 °C to 34.8 °C24.5 °C to 42.1 °C
Monthly rainfall2 mm to 273 mm0 mm to 21 mm
Dry months412
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
Dubai
25
26
29
34
38
41
42
42
40
36
31
27
Sea temperature, °C
Antalya
18
17
17
18
21
25
28
29
28
25
22
20
Dubai
23
22
23
25
29
31
33
33
33
31
28
25
Rainfall, mm
Antalya
215
114
97
63
41
8
2
2
18
80
145
273
Dubai
21
6
11
7
0
0
0
0
0
0
9
18
Daylight, hours per day
Antalya
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
13
11
10
10
Dubai
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
Dubai
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). Dubai: 1991-2020 normals, Dubai International Airport (3.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAntalyaDubai
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 15 m
€53-68
AYT · 9 km
4 h 15 m
€175-294
DXB · 7 km
MoscowVKO, SVO, DME, ZIA
3 h 10 m
€210-255
AYT · 9 km
5 h 0 m
€330-383
DWC · 44 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
4 h 5 m
€125-143
AYT · 9 km
7 h 10 m
€226-241
DXB · 7 km
Saint PetersburgLED
3 h 40 m
€274-310
1 stop
AYT · 9 km
5 h 45 m
€374-482
1 stop
DXB · 7 km
AnkaraESB
1 h 10 m
€52-63
AYT · 9 km
3 h 45 m
€273-303
1 stop
DXB · 7 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
2 h 50 m
€147-160
AYT · 9 km
5 h 35 m
€244-282
DXB · 7 km
ChisinauRMO
2 h 0 m
€146-169
AYT · 9 km
4 h 35 m
€248-310
1 stop
DXB · 7 km
Adler/SochiAER
1 h 55 m
€195-228
AYT · 9 km
3 h 35 m
€287-390
DWC · 44 km
AlmatyALA
5 h 20 m
€280-315
1 stop
AYT · 9 km
4 h 0 m
no fares
DXB · 7 km
BakuGYD
2 h 40 m
no fares
AYT · 9 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
DXB · 7 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

MeasureAntalyaDubai
Official languageTurkishArabic
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)UAE Dirham (AED)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCG220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC+4
Emergency number112112
Elevation30 m0 m
Main airportAntalya International Airport (AYT)9 km from centre33 non-stop destinationsDubai International Airport (DXB)7 km from centre292 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days

By the numbers

MeasureAntalyaDubai
City population2,426,3563,944,751
People per km²1,712
Museums within 10 km514
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre2252
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. 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.