VacationSelector

Antalya or Montpellier?

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.

Montpellier
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.

AntalyaMontpellier
Beaches & swimming. Antalya leads by 40 points.40
AntalyaMontpellier
Score7232
Swim season months72
Beaches 10 km118
Coast distance1 km9 km
Water distance1 km9 km
Places to eat. Montpellier leads by 20 points.20
AntalyaMontpellier
Score4565
Restaurants within 2 km of centre638737
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1134
Museums & heritage. Montpellier leads by 1 points.1
AntalyaMontpellier
Score2526
Museums within 10 km1114
Museums within 2 km of centre83
Share of museums within 2 km %7321
Unesco sites within 50 km02
Nightlife. Antalya leads by 21 points.21
AntalyaMontpellier
Score5938
Drinking venues within 4 km917318
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre516265
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5683
Nightclubs within 4 km5525
Nature & day trips. Montpellier leads by 2 points.2
AntalyaMontpellier
Score4143
Protected land share 50 km %815
Landscape blanket share 50 km %010
Land share of disc %6970
Park area within 2 km69 hectares55 hectares
Good for families. Montpellier leads by 4 points.4
AntalyaMontpellier
Score4044
Tourist attractions within 2 km68
Park area within 2 km69 hectares55 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km57
Sights concentration. Montpellier leads by 11 points.11
AntalyaMontpellier
Score2738
Notable places within 2 km1935
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Antalya leads by 27 points.27
AntalyaMontpellier
Score8962
Price level global35.273.7
Daily budget€100€160
Year-round weather. Montpellier leads by 3 points.3
AntalyaMontpellier
Score7174
Monthly daytime high15.3 °C to 34.8 °C12 °C to 29.6 °C
Monthly rainfall2 mm to 273 mm17 mm to 93 mm
Dry months45
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
Montpellier
12
13
16
19
23
27
30
29
25
21
16
13
Sea temperature, °C
Antalya
18
17
17
18
21
25
28
29
28
25
22
20
Montpellier
12
12
12
14
16
19
21
22
20
18
16
14
Rainfall, mm
Antalya
215
114
97
63
41
8
2
2
18
80
145
273
Montpellier
56
35
39
56
46
33
17
36
88
93
78
59
Daylight, hours per day
Antalya
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
13
11
10
10
Montpellier
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Antalya
5
6
7
8
10
11
12
11
9
8
6
5
Montpellier
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
10
8
6
5
5

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Antalya: 1991-2020 normals, Antalya (23.4 km from centre). Montpellier: 1991-2020 normals, Montpellier (7.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAntalyaMontpellier
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
3 h 45 m
no fares
AYT · 9 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
MPL · 8 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 15 m
€53-68
AYT · 9 km
3 h 5 m
no fares
MPL · 8 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
4 h 5 m
€125-143
AYT · 9 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
MPL · 8 km
MunichMUC
3 h 0 m
€154-247
AYT · 9 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
3 h 20 m
€171-231
1 stop
AYT · 9 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
DusseldorfDUS, NRN
3 h 35 m
€145-183
AYT · 9 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
BZR · 53 km
ManchesterMAN
4 h 20 m
€173-185
AYT · 9 km
2 h 5 m
no fares
BZR · 53 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
3 h 45 m
€168-195
1 stop
AYT · 9 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
FNI · 46 km
AmsterdamAMS
3 h 45 m
€216-244
AYT · 9 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
MPL · 8 km
ViennaVIE
2 h 40 m
€144-173
AYT · 9 km
1 h 50 m
€123-230
1 stop
MRS · 109 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

MeasureAntalyaMontpellier
Official languageTurkishFrench
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation30 m7 m
Main airportAntalya International Airport (AYT)9 km from centre33 non-stop destinationsMontpellier-Méditerranée Airport (MPL)8 km from centre36 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureAntalyaMontpellier
City population2,426,356310,240
People per km²1,7125,452
Museums within 10 km514
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Distinct cuisines in the centre2265
Swim season, months above 21 °C7 months2 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.