Costa del Sol vs Turkey

Ikos Andalusia's outdoor bar terrace features woven pendant lamps, bar seating, and tall palm trees with pink flowering plants in foreground.

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Costa del Sol and Turkey, side by side: live travel advisories, our resort catalog's real guest data, and each destination's honest weather picture. Everything you need to break the tie.

By the numbers

Costa del Sol compared with Turkey
Costa del Sol	Measure	Turkey
Level 2: Exercise Increased Caution	U.S. travel advisory	Level 2: Exercise Increased Caution
6	Resorts in our catalog	19 (better)
★ 4.4	Average guest rating	★ 4.6 (better)
$67–$526/night pp	Nightly rates	$1–$833/night pp (better)
0 of 6	Adults-only resorts	0 of 19
No hurricane season	Hurricane exposure	No hurricane season
November–March	Rainy season	November–February (impressively wet winters, irrelevant to summer trips)
June and September; July–August is hottest and busiest	Sweet spot	May–June and September–October; July–August regularly tops 90°F

Advisory levels sync from travel.state.gov; catalog figures reflect the resorts we've researched, not every hotel in the country. A marked row is one we are willing to call; rows without a mark are a matter of taste, or we have no comparable figure for both sides.

On the map

Costa del Sol

Turkey

Weather, month by month

Month-by-month average high temperature and rainfall for Costa del Sol and Turkey
Measure	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Costa del Sol · high °F	63	64	67	70	75	81	86	86	82	75	68	64
Turkey · high °F	59	60	64	70	78	86	93	93	87	79	69	61
Costa del Sol · rain (in)	2.7	2.3	1.9	1.6	0.8	0.2	0.0	0.2	0.9	2.2	3.7	3.9
Turkey · rain (in)	9.2	6.3	3.8	1.8	1.2	0.4	0.1	0.1	0.6	2.6	7.1	10.2

Approximate climate normals for Málaga and Antalya coast: planning guidance, not a forecast. A deeper tint is a higher number, read within its own row.