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The Red Tower and the harbour, Alanya
AlanyaThe Red Tower and the harbour
Amalfi and its harbour below the cliff, Amalfi
AmalfiAmalfi and its harbour below the cliff

Photos: Alanya by Atlantic Ambience, Pexels License; Amalfi by Oleksandra Zelena, Pexels License.

Alanya or Amalfi?

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 Alanya for

  • prices
  • nightlife
  • families

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

Choose Amalfi for

  • day trips
  • nature and the outdoors
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Amalfi’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. Alanya 84, Amalfi 64: Alanya leads by 20 points.
Food & drink. Alanya 43, Amalfi 48: Amalfi leads by 5 points.
Culture & sights. Alanya 44, Amalfi 36: Alanya leads by 8 points.
Nightlife. Alanya 58, Amalfi 12: Alanya leads by 46 points.
Nature & outdoors. Alanya 68, Amalfi 82: Amalfi leads by 14 points.
Day trips. Alanya 62, Amalfi 88: Amalfi leads by 26 points.
Good for families. Alanya 70, Amalfi 28: Alanya leads by 42 points.
Getting around. Alanya 50, Amalfi 48: Alanya leads by 2 points.
Shopping & style. Alanya and Amalfi are level on 34.
Affordability. Alanya 65, Amalfi 18: Alanya leads by 47 points.
Live music & performing arts. Alanya 15, Amalfi 22: Amalfi leads by 7 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Alanya 56, Amalfi 32: Alanya leads by 24 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Alanya and Amalfi.

Your match

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

Alanya
Best match
54match

Wins on prices and nightlife with your weighting.

Amalfi
43match

Wins on day trips and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

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

Amalfi in July

31 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
28 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
25 °Csea
15 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.

Amalfi's temperatures are measured 65 km from the centre, at Grazzanise.

Amalfi 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.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Alanya: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km. Amalfi: 1991-2020 normals, Grazzanise (64.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAlanyaAmalfi
Official languageTurkishItalian
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation10 m6 m
Main airportGazipaşa-Alanya Airport (GZP)38 km from centre22 non-stop destinationsNaples International Airport (NAP)38 km from centre131 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureAlanyaAmalfi
City population364,1804,729
People per km²228830
Museums within 10 km28
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km05
Swim season, months above 21 °C7 months5 months

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Sources

Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. 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). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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. Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. 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.