Door handle for a vehicle

A door handle for a vehicle includes a handle main body fixed to a vehicle door and possessing a housing portion at an opposite side of the vehicle door, an antenna housed in the housing portion so as to arrange an axis of the antenna to be substantially parallel to a longitudinal direction of the door handle main body, and s metal made cover for coating the housing portion from the opposite side of the vehicle door. The cover within an axial direction dimension of the antenna is arranged to be more distant from the vehicle door than the axis of the antenna.