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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
The Parthenon on the Acropolis, Athens
AthensThe Parthenon on the Acropolis

Photos: Antibes by Johan Allard, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Athens by Ranjeet Kumar Singh, Pexels License.

Antibes or Athens?

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
  • nature and the outdoors
  • day trips

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

Choose Athens for

  • culture and sights
  • nightlife
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Athens’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, Athens 70: Antibes leads by 10 points.
Food & drink. Antibes 50, Athens 78: Athens leads by 28 points.
Culture & sights. Antibes 42, Athens 88: Athens leads by 46 points.
Nightlife. Antibes 40, Athens 80: Athens leads by 40 points.
Nature & outdoors. Antibes 70, Athens 64: Antibes leads by 6 points.
Day trips. Antibes 88, Athens 85: Antibes leads by 3 points.
Good for families. Antibes 55, Athens 58: Athens leads by 3 points.
Getting around. Antibes 62, Athens 66: Athens leads by 4 points.
Shopping & style. Antibes 35, Athens 55: Athens leads by 20 points.
Affordability. Antibes 30, Athens 56: Athens leads by 26 points.
Live music & performing arts. Antibes 35, Athens 64: Athens leads by 29 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Antibes 40, Athens 42: Athens leads by 2 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Antibes and Athens.

Your match

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

Antibes
52match

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

Athens
Best match
67match

Wins on culture and sights and nightlife 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

Athens in July

34 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
7 mmrain in the month
13 hsunshine a day
25 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Antibes: 1991-2020 normals, Nice (9.9 km from centre). Athens: 1991-2020 normals, Athens / Athenai / Pláka (2.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAntibesAthens
Official languageFrenchGreek
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation0 m74 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)11 km from centre130 non-stop destinationsAthens Eleftherios Venizelos International Airport (ATH)20 km from centre173 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureAntibesAthens
City population77,637643,452
People per km²2,93016,499
Museums within 10 km1488
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km22
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months5 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. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.