VacationSelector

Antalya or Manchester?

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 value for money with your weighting.

Manchester
47
match

Wins on places to eat 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.

AntalyaManchester
Beaches & swimming. Antalya leads by 44 points.44
AntalyaManchester
Score7228
Swim season months70
Beaches 10 km1110
Coast distance1 km27 km
Water distance1 km27 km
Places to eat. Manchester leads by 23 points.23
AntalyaManchester
Score4568
Restaurants within 2 km of centre638853
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1135
Museums & heritage. Manchester leads by 17 points.17
AntalyaManchester
Score2542
Museums within 10 km1123
Museums within 2 km of centre811
Share of museums within 2 km %7348
Unesco sites within 50 km02
Nightlife. Manchester leads by 3 points.3
AntalyaManchester
Score5962
Drinking venues within 4 km9171,029
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre516792
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5677
Nightclubs within 4 km5582
Nature & day trips. Antalya leads by 5 points.5
AntalyaManchester
Score4136
Protected land share 50 km %817
Landscape blanket share 50 km %017
Land share of disc %6999
Park area within 2 km69 hectares63 hectares
Good for families. Antalya leads by 8 points.8
AntalyaManchester
Score4032
Tourist attractions within 2 km65
Park area within 2 km69 hectares63 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km52
Sights concentration. Manchester leads by 21 points.21
AntalyaManchester
Score2748
Notable places within 2 km1961
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Antalya leads by 35 points.35
AntalyaManchester
Score8954
Price level global35.284.9
Daily budget€100
Year-round weather. Antalya leads by 17 points.17
AntalyaManchester
Score7154
Monthly daytime high15.3 °C to 34.8 °C7.2 °C to 20.8 °C
Monthly rainfall2 mm to 273 mm51 mm to 95 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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F
M
A
M
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J
A
S
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D
Daytime high, °C
Antalya
15
16
19
22
26
31
35
35
32
27
22
17
Manchester
7
8
10
13
17
19
21
20
18
14
10
8
Sea temperature, °C
Antalya
18
17
17
18
21
25
28
29
28
25
22
20
Manchester
7
6
7
9
11
14
16
17
16
14
11
9
Rainfall, mm
Antalya
215
114
97
63
41
8
2
2
18
80
145
273
Manchester
67
62
51
61
59
63
60
73
71
95
86
84
Daylight, hours per day
Antalya
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
13
11
10
10
Manchester
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Antalya
5
6
7
8
10
11
12
11
9
8
6
5
Manchester
2
2
3
5
6
6
6
6
4
3
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Antalya: 1991-2020 normals, Antalya (23.4 km from centre). Manchester: 1991-2020 normals, Manchester Airport (14.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAntalyaManchester
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 15 m
€53-68
AYT · 9 km
3 h 50 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
BerlinBER
3 h 15 m
€135-164
AYT · 9 km
1 h 55 m
€352-493
2 stops
MAN · 15 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
4 h 5 m
€125-143
AYT · 9 km
55 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
MunichMUC
3 h 0 m
€154-247
AYT · 9 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
DusseldorfDUS, NRN
3 h 35 m
€145-183
AYT · 9 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
CologneCGN
3 h 30 m
€164-202
AYT · 9 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
ViennaVIE
2 h 40 m
€144-173
AYT · 9 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
PraguePRG
3 h 0 m
€160-165
AYT · 9 km
2 h 5 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
OsloOSL, TRF
4 h 10 m
no fares
AYT · 9 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
CopenhagenCPH
3 h 35 m
no fares
AYT · 9 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
MAN · 15 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

MeasureAntalyaManchester
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 m38 m
Main airportAntalya International Airport (AYT)9 km from centre33 non-stop destinationsManchester Airport (MAN)15 km from centre210 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureAntalyaManchester
City population2,426,356547,627
People per km²1,7124,737
Museums within 10 km528
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Distinct cuisines in the centre2263
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.