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The Château Grimaldi, home of the Musée Picasso, on the sea walls, Antibes
AntibesThe Château Grimaldi, home of the Musée Picasso, on the sea walls
Galena Street with the runs of Aspen Mountain, Aspen
AspenGalena Street with the runs of Aspen Mountain

Photos: Antibes by Johan Allard, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Aspen by Moroder, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Antibes or Aspen?

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 Antibes for

  • beaches
  • day trips
  • prices

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

Choose Aspen for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • shopping
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Aspen’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. Antibes 80, Aspen 6: Antibes leads by 74 points.
Food & drink. Antibes 50, Aspen 45: Antibes leads by 5 points.
Culture & sights. Antibes 42, Aspen 22: Antibes leads by 20 points.
Nightlife. Antibes and Aspen are level on 40.
Nature & outdoors. Antibes 70, Aspen 95: Aspen leads by 25 points.
Day trips. Antibes 88, Aspen 30: Antibes leads by 58 points.
Good for families. Antibes and Aspen are level on 55.
Getting around. Antibes 62, Aspen 72: Aspen leads by 10 points.
Shopping & style. Antibes 35, Aspen 50: Aspen leads by 15 points.
Affordability. Antibes 30, Aspen 5: Antibes leads by 25 points.
Live music & performing arts. Antibes 35, Aspen 50: Aspen leads by 15 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Antibes 40, Aspen 50: Aspen leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Antibes and Aspen.

Your match

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

Antibes
Best match
52match

Wins on beaches and day trips with your weighting.

Aspen
43match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and shopping with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Antibes in July

28 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
13 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
24 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Aspen in July

27 °Cdaytime high
10 °Cnight-time low
33 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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AntibesAspen

Where the figures come from

Aspen 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. Antibes: 1991-2020 normals, Nice (9.9 km from centre). Aspen: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Aspen / Woody Creek (5.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAntibesAspen
Official languageFrench-
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-7, UTC-6 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation0 m2,405 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)11 km from centre130 non-stop destinationsAspen-Pitkin County Airport (Sardy Field) (ASE)5 km from centre11 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureAntibesAspen
City population77,6377,004
People per km²2,930700
Museums within 10 km142
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 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). 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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.