VacationSelector
The Red Tower and the harbour, Alanya
AlanyaThe Red Tower and the harbour
The Sagrada Família, Barcelona
BarcelonaThe Sagrada Família

Photos: Alanya by Atlantic Ambience, Pexels License; Barcelona by Canaan, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Alanya or Barcelona?

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
  • wellness
  • beaches

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

Choose Barcelona for

  • live music and the arts
  • culture and sights
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Barcelona’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, Barcelona 75: Alanya leads by 9 points.
Food & drink. Alanya 43, Barcelona 82: Barcelona leads by 39 points.
Culture & sights. Alanya 44, Barcelona 86: Barcelona leads by 42 points.
Nightlife. Alanya 58, Barcelona 82: Barcelona leads by 24 points.
Nature & outdoors. Alanya 68, Barcelona 72: Barcelona leads by 4 points.
Day trips. Alanya 62, Barcelona 80: Barcelona leads by 18 points.
Good for families. Alanya 70, Barcelona 76: Barcelona leads by 6 points.
Getting around. Alanya 50, Barcelona 80: Barcelona leads by 30 points.
Shopping & style. Alanya 34, Barcelona 75: Barcelona leads by 41 points.
Affordability. Alanya 65, Barcelona 44: Alanya leads by 21 points.
Live music & performing arts. Alanya 15, Barcelona 70: Barcelona leads by 55 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Alanya 56, Barcelona 38: Alanya leads by 18 points.
0255075100

What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Alanya and Barcelona.

Your match

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

Alanya
54match

Wins on prices and wellness with your weighting.

Barcelona
Best match
72match

Wins on live music and the arts and culture and sights 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

Barcelona in July

28 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
27 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
24 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

0°10°20°30°40°JFMAMJJASOND

Rainfall in the month, mm

050100150200250JFMAMJJASOND
AlanyaBarcelona

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. Barcelona: 1991-2020 normals, Barcelona / Aeropuerto (14.4 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAlanyaBarcelona
Official languageTurkishSpanish
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation10 m9 m
Main airportGazipaşa-Alanya Airport (GZP)38 km from centre22 non-stop destinationsJosep Tarradellas Barcelona-El Prat Airport (BCN)13 km from centre235 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureAlanyaBarcelona
City population364,1801,731,649
People per km²22817,094
Museums within 10 km295
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Swim season, months above 21 °C7 months3 months

Where else could you go?

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

Browse every destination

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.