VacationSelector

Antalya or Goreme?

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

Your match

Antalya
✓ Best match
52
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nightlife with your weighting.

Goreme
32
match

Wins on good for families with your weighting.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

The verdict

Choose Antalya if the sea matters: 11 beaches within reach, a long warm swimming season, and the wider choice of bars, clubs and restaurants, with far more to see on foot from the centre.

Choose Goreme if you want landscape and daytime attractions in walking distance, quiet nights and a cooler summer, with highs near 30°C rather than Antalya's 35°C.

Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

AntalyaGoreme
Beaches & swimming. Antalya leads by 72 points.72
AntalyaGoreme
Score720
Swim season months70
Beaches 10 km110
Coast distance1 km205 km
Water distance1 km—
Places to eat. Antalya leads by 15 points.15
AntalyaGoreme
Score4530
Restaurants within 2 km of centre638100
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1121
Museums & heritage. Antalya leads by 13 points.13
AntalyaGoreme
Score2512
Museums within 10 km1110
Museums within 2 km of centre81
Share of museums within 2 km %7310
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Antalya leads by 47 points.47
AntalyaGoreme
Score5912
Drinking venues within 4 km91799
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre51658
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5659
Nightclubs within 4 km552
Nature & day trips. Antalya leads by 15 points.15
AntalyaGoreme
Score4126
Protected land share 50 km %811
Landscape blanket share 50 km %010
Land share of disc %69100
Park area within 2 km69 hectares—
Good for families. Goreme leads by 12 points.12
AntalyaGoreme
Score4052
Tourist attractions within 2 km651
Park area within 2 km69 hectares—
Theme parks within 30 km50
Sights concentration. Antalya leads by 27 points.27
AntalyaGoreme
Score270
Notable places within 2 km192
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Antalya and Goreme are level on 89.
AntalyaGoreme
Score8989
Price level global35.235.2
Daily budget€100€100
Year-round weather. Antalya leads by 4 points.4
AntalyaGoreme
Score7167
Monthly daytime high15.3 °C to 34.8 °C4.6 °C to 29.8 °C
Monthly rainfall2 mm to 273 mm7 mm to 59 mm
Dry months45
0255075100

Where they differ

Antalya has 11 beaches nearby and seven months when the sea is 21°C or warmer; Goreme has neither sea nor beach. It also has many times as many places to drink and as many nightclubs, many times as many notable places within walking distance of the centre, and far more restaurants near the centre.

Goreme has many times as many tourist attractions close to the centre, though no theme parks against Antalya's 5, and one UNESCO-listed place within day-trip reach. Its restaurants cover a wider range of kitchens.

Where they are alike

Both are warm-summer, dry-summer places rather than year-round mild ones. August peaks at 35°C in Antalya and 30°C in Goreme, and in both the rain nearly stops in July and August, under 15mm in each.

Neither is a museum city: the two hold similar numbers of museums, and both have a modest share of protected land around them, 11% near Goreme and 8% near Antalya, so day trips lean on landscape rather than sights.

Which traveller are you?

Anyone whose holiday is built around swimming should take Antalya: 11 beaches nearby and sea at 21°C or more for seven months of the year, where Goreme has no coast at all.

Families split by taste. Goreme puts many more tourist attractions within walking distance of the centre, which suits short legs; Antalya answers with 5 theme parks and the beaches beside them.

Travellers there for the evenings want Antalya, with many times as many bars and clubs. Those after quiet nights, walking country and a UNESCO-listed place within day-trip reach are better placed in Goreme, where summer tops out near 30°C.

What the numbers don't tell you

The value figure is a national price level, identical for both by construction, so it carries no information about which trip costs less; the €100 a day beside it is one national estimate, not a measurement of either place.

Goreme's zeros for beaches and for sights near the centre are real, but they also reflect a small village measured against a large city: counts there will be low whatever is counted. And Antalya's beach season peaks when heat and crowds do, in August at 35°C, while its warm yearly picture hides 215-273mm in December and January.

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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F
M
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J
A
S
O
N
D
Daytime high, °C
Antalya
15
16
19
22
26
31
35
35
32
27
22
17
Goreme
5
7
12
16
22
26
30
30
25
20
12
7
Sea temperature, °C
Antalya
18
17
17
18
21
25
28
29
28
25
22
20
Goreme
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Antalya
215
114
97
63
41
8
2
2
18
80
145
273
Goreme
54
42
53
42
59
53
13
7
15
30
32
48
Daylight, hours per day
Antalya
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
13
11
10
10
Goreme
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
Goreme
3
4
5
7
9
11
13
12
9
7
5
3

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Antalya: 1991-2020 normals, Antalya (23.4 km from centre). Goreme: 1991-2020 normals, Nevsehir (10.2 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Antalya is at its best in May and June, when highs run 26-31°C, rainfall drops from 41mm to 8mm and the sea reaches 21-25°C. September and October work too, with the sea at 25-28°C. July and August are hot at 35°C, and December brings 273mm.

Goreme's window is June to September, 26-30°C with almost no rain, 7-15mm in July, August and September. January is 5°C and the month to avoid.

Getting there

Flying fromAntalyaGoreme
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 15 m
€53-68
AYT · 9 km
1 h 20 m
€84-89
NAV · 29 km
DusseldorfDUS, NRN
3 h 35 m
€145-183
AYT · 9 km
3 h 45 m
no fares
ASR · 60 km
IzmirADB
1 h 5 m
€85-92
AYT · 9 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
ASR · 60 km
CologneCGN
3 h 30 m
€164-202
AYT · 9 km
3 h 45 m
no fares
ASR · 60 km
StuttgartSTR
3 h 15 m
€186-284
AYT · 9 km
3 h 25 m
€184-216
1 stop
ASR · 60 km
ErcanECN
1 h 0 m
€76-112
AYT · 9 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
ASR · 60 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
3 h 20 m
€171-231
1 stop
AYT · 9 km
3 h 35 m
no fares
ASR · 60 km
AmsterdamAMS
3 h 45 m
€216-244
AYT · 9 km
3 h 55 m
€230-246
1 stop
ASR · 60 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
4 h 5 m
€125-143
AYT · 9 km
4 h 20 m
no fares
ASR · 60 km
MunichMUC
3 h 0 m
€154-247
AYT · 9 km
3 h 15 m
no fares
ASR · 60 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

MeasureAntalyaGoreme
Official languageTurkishTurkish
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Turkish Lira (TRY)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC+3
Emergency number112112
Elevation30 m1,100 m
Main airportAntalya International Airport (AYT)9 km from centre33 non-stop destinationsKayseri Erkilet International Airport (ASR)60 km from centre21 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureAntalyaGoreme
City population2,426,3562,000
People per km²1,71220
Museums within 10 km55
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre2238
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.