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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 beach with its parasols and the boardwalk, Bethany Beach
Bethany BeachThe beach with its parasols and the boardwalk

Photos: Antibes by Johan Allard, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Bethany Beach by Doug Olson, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Antibes or Bethany 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 Antibes for

  • day trips
  • culture and sights
  • getting around

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

Choose Bethany Beach for

  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Bethany 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. Antibes 80, Bethany Beach 72: Antibes leads by 8 points.
Food & drink. Antibes 50, Bethany Beach 35: Antibes leads by 15 points.
Culture & sights. Antibes 42, Bethany Beach 10: Antibes leads by 32 points.
Nightlife. Antibes 40, Bethany Beach 12: Antibes leads by 28 points.
Nature & outdoors. Antibes 70, Bethany Beach 48: Antibes leads by 22 points.
Day trips. Antibes 88, Bethany Beach 45: Antibes leads by 43 points.
Good for families. Antibes 55, Bethany Beach 66: Bethany Beach leads by 11 points.
Getting around. Antibes 62, Bethany Beach 33: Antibes leads by 29 points.
Shopping & style. Antibes 35, Bethany Beach 28: Antibes leads by 7 points.
Affordability. Antibes and Bethany Beach are level on 30.
Live music & performing arts. Antibes 35, Bethany Beach 14: Antibes leads by 21 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Antibes 40, Bethany Beach 33: Antibes leads by 7 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Antibes and Bethany Beach.

Your match

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

Antibes
Best match
52match

Wins on day trips and culture and sights with your weighting.

Bethany Beach
36match

Wins on families 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

Bethany Beach in July

31 °Cdaytime high
20 °Cnight-time low
95 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
23 °Csea
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

Bethany Beach's temperatures are measured 45 km from the centre, at Salisbury / Quail Ridge.

Bethany 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.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Antibes: 1991-2020 normals, Nice (9.9 km from centre). Bethany Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Salisbury / Quail Ridge (44.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAntibesBethany Beach
Official languageFrench-
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation0 m3 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)11 km from centre130 non-stop destinationsSalisbury Ocean City Wicomico Regional Airport (SBY)45 km from centre4 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureAntibesBethany Beach
City population77,637954
People per km²2,930318
Museums within 10 km140
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months3 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.