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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
Bodrum Castle and gulets in the harbour, Bodrum
BodrumBodrum Castle and gulets in the harbour

Photos: Antibes by Johan Allard, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Bodrum by Serhio Magpie, CC BY 4.0, cropped.

Antibes or Bodrum?

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

  • getting around
  • day trips
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Bodrum for

  • nightlife
  • wellness
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Bodrum’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 and Bodrum are level on 80.
Food & drink. Antibes 50, Bodrum 60: Bodrum leads by 10 points.
Culture & sights. Antibes 42, Bodrum 45: Bodrum leads by 3 points.
Nightlife. Antibes 40, Bodrum 65: Bodrum leads by 25 points.
Nature & outdoors. Antibes 70, Bodrum 60: Antibes leads by 10 points.
Day trips. Antibes 88, Bodrum 72: Antibes leads by 16 points.
Good for families. Antibes 55, Bodrum 66: Bodrum leads by 11 points.
Getting around. Antibes 62, Bodrum 42: Antibes leads by 20 points.
Shopping & style. Antibes 35, Bodrum 45: Bodrum leads by 10 points.
Affordability. Antibes 30, Bodrum 38: Bodrum leads by 8 points.
Live music & performing arts. Antibes 35, Bodrum 32: Antibes leads by 3 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Antibes 40, Bodrum 52: Bodrum leads by 12 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Antibes and Bodrum.

Your match

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

Antibes
52match

Wins on getting around and day trips with your weighting.

Bodrum
Best match
55match

Wins on nightlife and wellness 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

Bodrum in July

31 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
2 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
24 °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

Bodrum's temperatures are measured 43 km from the centre, at Kos Airport.

Bodrum 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). Bodrum: 1993-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Kos Airport (42.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAntibesBodrum
Official languageFrenchTurkish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Turkish Lira (TRY)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+3
Emergency number112112
Elevation0 m10 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)11 km from centre130 non-stop destinationsMilas Bodrum International Airport (BJV)32 km from centre83 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureAntibesBodrum
City population77,637175,000
People per km²2,930314
Museums within 10 km144
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
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. 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.