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The Taj Mahal reflected in its pool, Agra
AgraThe Taj Mahal reflected in its pool
The Red Tower and the harbour, Alanya
AlanyaThe Red Tower and the harbour

Photos: Agra by Sanket Sawale, Pexels License; Alanya by Atlantic Ambience, Pexels License.

Agra 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 Agra for

  • culture and sights
  • prices
  • day trips

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

Choose Alanya for

  • beaches
  • nightlife
  • families

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. Agra 3, Alanya 84: Alanya leads by 81 points.
Food & drink. Agra 42, Alanya 43: Alanya leads by 1 points.
Culture & sights. Agra 80, Alanya 44: Agra leads by 36 points.
Nightlife. Agra 7, Alanya 58: Alanya leads by 51 points.
Nature & outdoors. Agra 30, Alanya 68: Alanya leads by 38 points.
Day trips. Agra 70, Alanya 62: Agra leads by 8 points.
Good for families. Agra 20, Alanya 70: Alanya leads by 50 points.
Getting around. Agra 28, Alanya 50: Alanya leads by 22 points.
Shopping & style. Agra 38, Alanya 34: Agra leads by 4 points.
Affordability. Agra 90, Alanya 65: Agra leads by 25 points.
Live music & performing arts. Agra 10, Alanya 15: Alanya leads by 5 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Agra 15, Alanya 56: Alanya leads by 41 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Agra and Alanya.

Your match

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

Agra
36match

Wins on culture and sights and prices with your weighting.

Alanya
Best match
54match

Wins on beaches and nightlife with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Agra in July

35 °Cdaytime high
28 °Cnight-time low
216 mmrain in the month
No seasea
14 hdaylight a day

Alanya in July

32 °Cdaytime high
27 °Cnight-time low
3 mmrain in the month
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

Agra 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.

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. Agra: 1942-2025 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Agra (6.2 km from centre). Alanya: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureAgraAlanya
Official languageHindi, EnglishTurkish
CurrencyIndian Rupee (INR)Turkish Lira (TRY)
SocketsCM230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+5:30UTC+3
Emergency number108 or 112112
Elevation171 m10 m
Main airportAgra Airport / Agra Air Force Station (AGR)6 km from centre2 non-stop destinationsGazipaşa-Alanya Airport (GZP)38 km from centre22 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-14 days

By the numbers

MeasureAgraAlanya
City population1,585,705364,180
People per km²8,417228
Museums within 10 km02
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km40
Swim season, months above 21 °C-7 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. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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.