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The Red Tower and the harbour, Alanya
AlanyaThe Red Tower and the harbour
Wat Pho, Bangkok
BangkokWat Pho

Photos: Alanya by Atlantic Ambience, Pexels License; Bangkok by Lu Zhao, Pexels License.

Alanya or Bangkok?

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

  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors
  • families

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

Choose Bangkok for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Bangkok’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, Bangkok 12: Alanya leads by 72 points.
Food & drink. Alanya 43, Bangkok 95: Bangkok leads by 52 points.
Culture & sights. Alanya 44, Bangkok 80: Bangkok leads by 36 points.
Nightlife. Alanya 58, Bangkok 85: Bangkok leads by 27 points.
Nature & outdoors. Alanya 68, Bangkok 25: Alanya leads by 43 points.
Day trips. Alanya 62, Bangkok 72: Bangkok leads by 10 points.
Good for families. Alanya 70, Bangkok 50: Alanya leads by 20 points.
Getting around. Alanya and Bangkok are level on 50.
Shopping & style. Alanya 34, Bangkok 80: Bangkok leads by 46 points.
Affordability. Alanya 65, Bangkok 85: Bangkok leads by 20 points.
Live music & performing arts. Alanya 15, Bangkok 52: Bangkok leads by 37 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Alanya 56, Bangkok 75: Bangkok leads by 19 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Alanya and Bangkok.

Your match

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

Alanya
54match

Wins on beaches and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Bangkok
Best match
63match

Wins on food and drink and shopping 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

Bangkok in July

34 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
184 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
30 °Csea
13 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. Alanya: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km. Bangkok: 1991-2020 normals, Bangkok (5.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAlanyaBangkok
Official languageTurkishThai
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Baht (THB)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzABCF220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+3UTC+7
Emergency number112Police 191, ambulance 1669, fire 199
Elevation10 m2 m
Main airportGazipaşa-Alanya Airport (GZP)38 km from centre22 non-stop destinationsSuvarnabhumi Airport (BKK)26 km from centre150 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days-

By the numbers

MeasureAlanyaBangkok
City population364,1805,676,648
People per km²2283,619
Museums within 10 km259
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C7 months12 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.