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The old harbour in Kaleiçi, Antalya
AntalyaThe old harbour in Kaleiçi
The pink Don CeSar hotel seen from the beach, St. Pete Beach
St. Pete BeachThe pink Don CeSar hotel seen from the beach

Photos: Antalya by Furkan Tumer, Pexels License; St. Pete Beach by Jeffrey Eisen, Pexels License.

Antalya or St. Pete Beach?

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

  • culture and sights
  • prices
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose St. Pete Beach for

  • beaches

What lies behind each score is written up on St. Pete Beach’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, St. Pete Beach 87: St. Pete Beach leads by 5 points.
Food & drink. Antalya 57, St. Pete Beach 40: Antalya leads by 17 points.
Culture & sights. Antalya 55, St. Pete Beach 18: Antalya leads by 37 points.
Nightlife. Antalya 48, St. Pete Beach 28: Antalya leads by 20 points.
Nature & outdoors. Antalya 83, St. Pete Beach 57: Antalya leads by 26 points.
Day trips. Antalya 78, St. Pete Beach 58: Antalya leads by 20 points.
Good for families. Antalya 74, St. Pete Beach 72: Antalya leads by 2 points.
Getting around. Antalya 50, St. Pete Beach 30: Antalya leads by 20 points.
Shopping & style. Antalya 44, St. Pete Beach 20: Antalya leads by 24 points.
Affordability. Antalya 62, St. Pete Beach 32: Antalya leads by 30 points.
Live music & performing arts. Antalya 40, St. Pete Beach 20: Antalya leads by 20 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Antalya 62, St. Pete Beach 42: Antalya leads by 20 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Antalya and St. Pete Beach.

Your match

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

Antalya
Best match
61match

Wins on culture and sights and prices with your weighting.

St. Pete Beach
42match

Wins on beaches 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

St. Pete Beach in July

32 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
185 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
30 °Csea
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

St. Pete Beach 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.

St. Pete Beach's sunshine is measured 34 km from the centre, at Tampa International Airport.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Antalya: 1991-2020 normals, Antalya (23.4 km from centre). St. Pete Beach: 1998-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Saint Petersburg (12.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAntalyaSt. Pete Beach
Official languageTurkish-
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation30 m2 m
Main airportAntalya International Airport (AYT)9 km from centre172 non-stop destinationsSt. Petersburg Clearwater International Airport (PIE)21 km from centre60 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureAntalyaSt. Pete Beach
City population2,426,3568,879
People per km²1,712173
Museums within 10 km52
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C7 months8 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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.