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The old harbour in Kaleiçi, Antalya
AntalyaThe old harbour in Kaleiçi
The old railway depot in the snow, Steamboat Springs
Steamboat SpringsThe old railway depot in the snow

Photos: Antalya by Furkan Tumer, Pexels License; Steamboat Springs by Jeffrey Beall, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Antalya or Steamboat 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
  • prices

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

Choose Steamboat Springs for

  • wellness
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Steamboat 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, Steamboat Springs 7: Antalya leads by 75 points.
Food & drink. Antalya 57, Steamboat Springs 30: Antalya leads by 27 points.
Culture & sights. Antalya 55, Steamboat Springs 14: Antalya leads by 41 points.
Nightlife. Antalya 48, Steamboat Springs 20: Antalya leads by 28 points.
Nature & outdoors. Antalya 83, Steamboat Springs 88: Steamboat Springs leads by 5 points.
Day trips. Antalya 78, Steamboat Springs 12: Antalya leads by 66 points.
Good for families. Antalya 74, Steamboat Springs 62: Antalya leads by 12 points.
Getting around. Antalya 50, Steamboat Springs 46: Antalya leads by 4 points.
Shopping & style. Antalya 44, Steamboat Springs 22: Antalya leads by 22 points.
Affordability. Antalya 62, Steamboat Springs 17: Antalya leads by 45 points.
Live music & performing arts. Antalya 40, Steamboat Springs 28: Antalya leads by 12 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Antalya 62, Steamboat Springs 70: Steamboat Springs leads by 8 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Antalya and Steamboat 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.

Steamboat Springs
35match

Wins on wellness and nature and the outdoors 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

Steamboat Springs in July

28 °Cdaytime high
10 °Cnight-time low
31 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Steamboat 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). Steamboat Springs: 2011-2025 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Steamboat Springs / Steamboat Ii (5.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAntalyaSteamboat Springs
Official languageTurkish-
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC-7, UTC-6 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation30 m2,052 m
Main airportAntalya International Airport (AYT)9 km from centre172 non-stop destinationsYampa Valley Airport (HDN)33 km from centre17 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureAntalyaSteamboat Springs
City population2,426,35613,224
People per km²1,712503
Museums within 10 km50
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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.