VacationSelector

Antalya or Kuala Lumpur?

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 year-round weather with your weighting.

Kuala Lumpur
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on places to eat and nature & day trips 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.

AntalyaKuala Lumpur
Beaches & swimming. Antalya leads by 32 points.32
AntalyaKuala Lumpur
Score7240
Swim season months712
Beaches 10 km110
Coast distance1 km38 km
Water distance1 km36 km
Places to eat. Kuala Lumpur leads by 33 points.33
AntalyaKuala Lumpur
Score4578
Restaurants within 2 km of centre6382,358
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1128
Museums & heritage. Kuala Lumpur leads by 26 points.26
AntalyaKuala Lumpur
Score2551
Museums within 10 km1141
Museums within 2 km of centre826
Share of museums within 2 km %7363
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Kuala Lumpur leads by 8 points.8
AntalyaKuala Lumpur
Score5967
Drinking venues within 4 km9171,308
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre516735
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5656
Nightclubs within 4 km55126
Nature & day trips. Kuala Lumpur leads by 28 points.28
AntalyaKuala Lumpur
Score4169
Protected land share 50 km %828
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %6997
Park area within 2 km69 hectares70 hectares
Good for families. Kuala Lumpur leads by 20 points.20
AntalyaKuala Lumpur
Score4060
Tourist attractions within 2 km626
Park area within 2 km69 hectares70 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km55
Sights concentration. Kuala Lumpur leads by 24 points.24
AntalyaKuala Lumpur
Score2751
Notable places within 2 km1975
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Kuala Lumpur leads by 3 points.3
AntalyaKuala Lumpur
Score8992
Price level global35.230.6
Daily budget€100
Year-round weather. Antalya leads by 19 points.19
AntalyaKuala Lumpur
Score7152
Monthly daytime high15.3 °C to 34.8 °C31.9 °C to 33.7 °C
Monthly rainfall2 mm to 273 mm145 mm to 360 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
Kuala Lumpur
33
33
34
34
34
33
33
33
33
33
32
32
Sea temperature, °C
Antalya
18
17
17
18
21
25
28
29
28
25
22
20
Kuala Lumpur
29
29
30
30
30
30
30
30
30
30
29
29
Rainfall, mm
Antalya
215
114
97
63
41
8
2
2
18
80
145
273
Kuala Lumpur
227
197
270
296
232
145
169
178
215
284
360
281
Daylight, hours per day
Antalya
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
13
11
10
10
Kuala Lumpur
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
Sunshine, hours per day
Antalya
5
6
7
8
10
11
12
11
9
8
6
5
Kuala Lumpur
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). Kuala Lumpur: 1991-2020 normals, Sepang/KL International Airport (46.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAntalyaKuala Lumpur
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 15 m
€53-68
AYT · 9 km
10 h 30 m
no fares
KUL · 45 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
4 h 5 m
€125-143
AYT · 9 km
13 h 10 m
€471-602
KUL · 45 km
AlmatyALA
5 h 20 m
€280-315
1 stop
AYT · 9 km
6 h 40 m
no fares
KUL · 45 km
AmsterdamAMS
3 h 45 m
€216-244
AYT · 9 km
12 h 45 m
no fares
KUL · 45 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

MeasureAntalyaKuala Lumpur
Official languageTurkishMalay
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Malaysian Ringgit (MYR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzG240 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+3UTC+8
Emergency number112999
Elevation30 m50 m
Main airportAntalya International Airport (AYT)9 km from centre33 non-stop destinationsKuala Lumpur International Airport (KUL)45 km from centre136 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days

By the numbers

MeasureAntalyaKuala Lumpur
City population2,426,3569,000,280
People per km²1,71236,932
Museums within 10 km525
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre2269
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.