VacationSelector

Antalya or Madrid?

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 value for money with your weighting.

Madrid
✓ Best match
66
match

Wins on museums & heritage and sights concentration 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.

AntalyaMadrid
Beaches & swimming. Antalya leads by 72 points.72
AntalyaMadrid
Score720
Swim season months70
Beaches 10 km114
Coast distance1 km305 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Madrid leads by 38 points.38
AntalyaMadrid
Score4583
Restaurants within 2 km of centre6383,508
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1128
Museums & heritage. Madrid leads by 50 points.50
AntalyaMadrid
Score2575
Museums within 10 km1197
Museums within 2 km of centre859
Share of museums within 2 km %7361
Unesco sites within 50 km04
Nightlife. Madrid leads by 22 points.22
AntalyaMadrid
Score5981
Drinking venues within 4 km9172,414
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre5161,498
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5662
Nightclubs within 4 km55341
Nature & day trips. Madrid leads by 22 points.22
AntalyaMadrid
Score4163
Protected land share 50 km %819
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %69100
Park area within 2 km69 hectares187 hectares
Good for families. Madrid leads by 37 points.37
AntalyaMadrid
Score4077
Tourist attractions within 2 km661
Park area within 2 km69 hectares187 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km53
Sights concentration. Madrid leads by 48 points.48
AntalyaMadrid
Score2775
Notable places within 2 km19288
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Antalya leads by 18 points.18
AntalyaMadrid
Score8971
Price level global35.260.8
Daily budget€100€122
Year-round weather. Madrid leads by 1 points.1
AntalyaMadrid
Score7172
Monthly daytime high15.3 °C to 34.8 °C10 °C to 32.7 °C
Monthly rainfall2 mm to 273 mm9 mm to 64 mm
Dry months47
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
Madrid
10
12
16
19
23
29
33
32
27
20
14
10
Sea temperature, °C
Antalya
18
17
17
18
21
25
28
29
28
25
22
20
Madrid
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Antalya
215
114
97
63
41
8
2
2
18
80
145
273
Madrid
32
34
35
46
49
20
9
10
24
64
53
42
Daylight, hours per day
Antalya
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
13
11
10
10
Madrid
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Antalya
5
6
7
8
10
11
12
11
9
8
6
5
Madrid
5
5
7
8
9
11
12
11
9
6
5
4

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Antalya: 1991-2020 normals, Antalya (23.4 km from centre). Madrid: 1991-2020 normals, Madrid (1.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAntalyaMadrid
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 15 m
€53-68
AYT · 9 km
3 h 50 m
€182-348
MAD · 14 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
4 h 5 m
€125-143
AYT · 9 km
2 h 10 m
€52-105
MAD · 14 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
3 h 45 m
no fares
AYT · 9 km
1 h 55 m
€95-123
MAD · 14 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
3 h 20 m
€171-231
1 stop
AYT · 9 km
2 h 20 m
€121-231
1 stop
MAD · 14 km
MunichMUC
3 h 0 m
€154-247
AYT · 9 km
2 h 25 m
€193-236
1 stop
MAD · 14 km
DusseldorfDUS, NRN
3 h 35 m
€145-183
AYT · 9 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
MAD · 14 km
BerlinBER
3 h 15 m
€135-164
AYT · 9 km
2 h 50 m
€151-164
MAD · 14 km
AmsterdamAMS
3 h 45 m
€216-244
AYT · 9 km
2 h 25 m
€175-213
MAD · 14 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
3 h 45 m
€168-195
1 stop
AYT · 9 km
2 h 15 m
€99-166
MAD · 14 km
ZurichZRH
3 h 15 m
€140-159
AYT · 9 km
2 h 5 m
€191-243
1 stop
MAD · 14 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

MeasureAntalyaMadrid
Official languageTurkishSpanish
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation30 m663 m
Main airportAntalya International Airport (AYT)9 km from centre33 non-stop destinationsAdolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport (MAD)14 km from centre236 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureAntalyaMadrid
City population2,426,3563,506,730
People per km²1,7125,801
Museums within 10 km588
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km04
Distinct cuisines in the centre22106
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.