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The Adelaide skyline and the footbridge over the River Torrens, Adelaide
AdelaideThe Adelaide skyline and the footbridge over the River Torrens
The Red Tower and the harbour, Alanya
AlanyaThe Red Tower and the harbour

Photos: Adelaide by Ardash Muradian, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Alanya by Atlantic Ambience, Pexels License.

Adelaide 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 Adelaide for

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

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

Choose Alanya for

  • prices
  • beaches
  • nightlife

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. Adelaide 68, Alanya 84: Alanya leads by 16 points.
Food & drink. Adelaide 72, Alanya 43: Adelaide leads by 29 points.
Culture & sights. Adelaide 48, Alanya 44: Adelaide leads by 4 points.
Nightlife. Adelaide 42, Alanya 58: Alanya leads by 16 points.
Nature & outdoors. Adelaide 66, Alanya 68: Alanya leads by 2 points.
Day trips. Adelaide 60, Alanya 62: Alanya leads by 2 points.
Good for families. Adelaide and Alanya are level on 70.
Getting around. Adelaide 57, Alanya 50: Adelaide leads by 7 points.
Shopping & style. Adelaide 44, Alanya 34: Adelaide leads by 10 points.
Affordability. Adelaide 40, Alanya 65: Alanya leads by 25 points.
Live music & performing arts. Adelaide 63, Alanya 15: Adelaide leads by 48 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Adelaide 42, Alanya 56: Alanya leads by 14 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Adelaide and Alanya.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Adelaide
56match

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

Alanya
54match

Wins on prices and beaches with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Adelaide in July

16 °Cdaytime high
8 °Cnight-time low
72 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
14 °Csea
10 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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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. Adelaide: 1991-2020 normals, Adelaide (West Terrace / ngayirdapira) (3.1 km from centre). Alanya: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureAdelaideAlanya
Official languageEnglishTurkish
CurrencyAustralian Dollar (AUD)Turkish Lira (TRY)
SocketsI230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+9:30, UTC+10:30 in summerUTC+3
Emergency number000112
Elevation1 m10 m
Main airportAdelaide International Airport (ADL)6 km from centre35 non-stop destinationsGazipaşa-Alanya Airport (GZP)38 km from centre22 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureAdelaideAlanya
City population1,387,290364,180
People per km²1,071228
Museums within 10 km132
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 months7 months

Where else could you go?

Every comparison below shares a destination with this one, so you can follow Adelaide or Alanya somewhere new.

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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.