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The beach with the bay and the skyline behind, Acapulco
AcapulcoThe beach with the bay and the skyline behind
The Red Tower and the harbour, Alanya
AlanyaThe Red Tower and the harbour

Photos: Acapulco by Felicia Navarrete, Pexels License; Alanya by Atlantic Ambience, Pexels License.

Acapulco or Alanya?

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 Acapulco for

  • food and drink
  • live music and the arts
  • prices

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

Choose Alanya for

  • day trips
  • families
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Alanya’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. Acapulco 80, Alanya 84: Alanya leads by 4 points.
Food & drink. Acapulco 55, Alanya 43: Acapulco leads by 12 points.
Culture & sights. Acapulco 28, Alanya 44: Alanya leads by 16 points.
Nightlife. Acapulco 64, Alanya 58: Acapulco leads by 6 points.
Nature & outdoors. Acapulco 50, Alanya 68: Alanya leads by 18 points.
Day trips. Acapulco 15, Alanya 62: Alanya leads by 47 points.
Good for families. Acapulco 45, Alanya 70: Alanya leads by 25 points.
Getting around. Acapulco 30, Alanya 50: Alanya leads by 20 points.
Shopping & style. Acapulco 32, Alanya 34: Alanya leads by 2 points.
Affordability. Acapulco 74, Alanya 65: Acapulco leads by 9 points.
Live music & performing arts. Acapulco 26, Alanya 15: Acapulco leads by 11 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Acapulco 32, Alanya 56: Alanya leads by 24 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Acapulco and Alanya.

Your match

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

Acapulco
44match

Wins on food and drink and live music and the arts with your weighting.

Alanya
Best match
54match

Wins on day trips and families with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Acapulco in July

34 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
226 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
30 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Alanya in July

32 °Cdaytime high
27 °Cnight-time low
3 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
28 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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AcapulcoAlanya

Where the figures come from

Alanya has no weather station within reach, so its figures come from a gridded climate model rather than a measured record, and read a broad area rather than the city itself.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Acapulco: 1991-2020 normals, Acapulco, Gro. (5.9 km from centre). Alanya: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureAcapulcoAlanya
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaTurkish
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Turkish Lira (TRY)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6UTC+3
Emergency number911112
Elevation18 m10 m
Main airportGeneral Juan N. Álvarez International Airport (ACA)18 km from centre10 non-stop destinationsGazipaşa-Alanya Airport (GZP)38 km from centre22 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureAcapulcoAlanya
City population658,609364,180
People per km²350228
Museums within 10 km32
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months7 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). Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.