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The old harbour in Kaleiçi, Antalya
AntalyaThe old harbour in Kaleiçi
Palm Springs

Photos: Antalya by Furkan Tumer, Pexels License.

Antalya or Palm Springs?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Antalya for

  • beaches
  • day trips
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Antalya’s own page.

Choose Palm Springs for

  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Palm Springs’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Antalya 82, Palm Springs 7: Antalya leads by 75 points.
Food & drink. Antalya 57, Palm Springs 40: Antalya leads by 17 points.
Culture & sights. Antalya 55, Palm Springs 42: Antalya leads by 13 points.
Nightlife. Antalya 48, Palm Springs 36: Antalya leads by 12 points.
Nature & outdoors. Antalya 83, Palm Springs 78: Antalya leads by 5 points.
Day trips. Antalya 78, Palm Springs 38: Antalya leads by 40 points.
Good for families. Antalya 74, Palm Springs 40: Antalya leads by 34 points.
Getting around. Antalya 50, Palm Springs 22: Antalya leads by 28 points.
Shopping & style. Antalya and Palm Springs are level on 44.
Affordability. Antalya 62, Palm Springs 32: Antalya leads by 30 points.
Live music & performing arts. Antalya and Palm Springs are level on 40.
Wellness & relaxation. Antalya 62, Palm Springs 80: Palm Springs leads by 18 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Antalya and Palm Springs.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Antalya
Best match
61match

Wins on beaches and day trips with your weighting.

Palm Springs
42match

Wins on wellness with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Antalya in July

35 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
2 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
28 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Palm Springs in July

42 °Cdaytime high
28 °Cnight-time low
5 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Palm Springs has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Antalya: 1991-2020 normals, Antalya (23.4 km from centre). Palm Springs: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Palm Springs (2.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAntalyaPalm Springs
Official languageTurkish-
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation30 m146 m
Main airportAntalya International Airport (AYT)9 km from centre172 non-stop destinationsPalm Springs International Airport (PSP)2 km from centre29 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureAntalyaPalm Springs
City population2,426,35644,575
People per km²1,712181
Museums within 10 km53
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C7 months-

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. 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.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.