VacationSelector

Antalya or Edinburgh?

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 value for money and year-round weather with your weighting.

Edinburgh
✓ Best match
58
match

Wins on sights concentration and museums & heritage 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.

AntalyaEdinburgh
Beaches & swimming. Antalya leads by 17 points.17
AntalyaEdinburgh
Score7255
Swim season months70
Beaches 10 km1120
Coast distance1 km3 km
Water distance1 km3 km
Places to eat. Edinburgh leads by 25 points.25
AntalyaEdinburgh
Score4570
Restaurants within 2 km of centre6381,023
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1135
Museums & heritage. Edinburgh leads by 32 points.32
AntalyaEdinburgh
Score2557
Museums within 10 km1130
Museums within 2 km of centre822
Share of museums within 2 km %7373
Unesco sites within 50 km03
Nightlife. Edinburgh leads by 5 points.5
AntalyaEdinburgh
Score5964
Drinking venues within 4 km9171,193
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre516884
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5674
Nightclubs within 4 km5565
Nature & day trips. Antalya leads by 6 points.6
AntalyaEdinburgh
Score4135
Protected land share 50 km %82
Landscape blanket share 50 km %01
Land share of disc %6985
Park area within 2 km69 hectares166 hectares
Good for families. Edinburgh leads by 32 points.32
AntalyaEdinburgh
Score4072
Tourist attractions within 2 km687
Park area within 2 km69 hectares166 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km50
Sights concentration. Edinburgh leads by 33 points.33
AntalyaEdinburgh
Score2760
Notable places within 2 km19126
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Antalya leads by 35 points.35
AntalyaEdinburgh
Score8954
Price level global35.284.9
Daily budget€100
Year-round weather. Antalya leads by 20 points.20
AntalyaEdinburgh
Score7151
Monthly daytime high15.3 °C to 34.8 °C6.6 °C to 18.8 °C
Monthly rainfall2 mm to 273 mm43 mm to 80 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
Edinburgh
7
7
9
12
14
17
19
19
17
13
9
7
Sea temperature, °C
Antalya
18
17
17
18
21
25
28
29
28
25
22
20
Edinburgh
7
6
6
7
10
12
14
14
13
12
10
8
Rainfall, mm
Antalya
215
114
97
63
41
8
2
2
18
80
145
273
Edinburgh
62
47
47
43
49
63
65
69
55
80
68
63
Daylight, hours per day
Antalya
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
13
11
10
10
Edinburgh
8
10
12
14
16
18
17
15
13
11
8
7
Sunshine, hours per day
Antalya
5
6
7
8
10
11
12
11
9
8
6
5
Edinburgh
2
3
4
5
6
5
5
5
4
3
3
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Antalya: 1991-2020 normals, Antalya (23.4 km from centre). Edinburgh: 1991-2020 normals, Edinburgh Airport (10 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAntalyaEdinburgh
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 15 m
€53-68
AYT · 9 km
4 h 0 m
€201-242
1 stop
EDI · 11 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
4 h 5 m
€125-143
AYT · 9 km
1 h 20 m
€41-45
EDI · 11 km
DusseldorfDUS, NRN
3 h 35 m
€145-183
AYT · 9 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
EDI · 11 km
BerlinBER
3 h 15 m
€135-164
AYT · 9 km
2 h 0 m
€141-162
1 stop
EDI · 11 km
ViennaVIE
2 h 40 m
€144-173
AYT · 9 km
2 h 35 m
€150-240
1 stop
EDI · 11 km
PraguePRG
3 h 0 m
€160-165
AYT · 9 km
2 h 15 m
€135-214
1 stop
EDI · 11 km
MunichMUC
3 h 0 m
€154-247
AYT · 9 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
EDI · 11 km
CologneCGN
3 h 30 m
€164-202
AYT · 9 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
EDI · 11 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
3 h 45 m
no fares
AYT · 9 km
1 h 40 m
€78-108
1 stop
EDI · 11 km
ZurichZRH
3 h 15 m
€140-159
AYT · 9 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
EDI · 11 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

MeasureAntalyaEdinburgh
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 m47 m
Main airportAntalya International Airport (AYT)9 km from centre33 non-stop destinationsEdinburgh Airport (EDI)11 km from centre158 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureAntalyaEdinburgh
City population2,426,356488,050
People per km²1,7121,884
Museums within 10 km532
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Distinct cuisines in the centre2278
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.