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The Red Tower and the harbour, Alanya
AlanyaThe Red Tower and the harbour
Bryggen across Vågen, Bergen
BergenBryggen across Vågen

Photos: Alanya by Atlantic Ambience, Pexels License; Bergen by Abdullah Guc, Pexels License.

Alanya or Bergen?

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
  • prices
  • day trips

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

Choose Bergen for

  • live music and the arts
  • getting around
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Bergen’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, Bergen 20: Alanya leads by 64 points.
Food & drink. Alanya 43, Bergen 47: Bergen leads by 4 points.
Culture & sights. Alanya 44, Bergen 55: Bergen leads by 11 points.
Nightlife. Alanya 58, Bergen 40: Alanya leads by 18 points.
Nature & outdoors. Alanya 68, Bergen 88: Bergen leads by 20 points.
Day trips. Alanya 62, Bergen 38: Alanya leads by 24 points.
Good for families. Alanya 70, Bergen 60: Alanya leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Alanya 50, Bergen 74: Bergen leads by 24 points.
Shopping & style. Alanya 34, Bergen 33: Alanya leads by 1 points.
Affordability. Alanya 65, Bergen 12: Alanya leads by 53 points.
Live music & performing arts. Alanya 15, Bergen 58: Bergen leads by 43 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Alanya 56, Bergen 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 Bergen.

Your match

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

Alanya
Best match
54match

Wins on beaches and prices with your weighting.

Bergen
46match

Wins on live music and the arts and getting around 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
28 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Bergen in July

20 °Cdaytime high
12 °Cnight-time low
159 mmrain in the month
15 °Csea
18 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. Bergen: 1991-2020 normals, Bergen / Florida (1.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAlanyaBergen
Official languageTurkishNorwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, Sámi
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Norwegian Krone (NOK)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112Police 112, ambulance 113, fire 110
Elevation10 m5 m
Main airportGazipaşa-Alanya Airport (GZP)38 km from centre22 non-stop destinationsBergen Airport, Flesland (BGO)12 km from centre64 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureAlanyaBergen
City population364,180291,189
People per km²2283,339
Museums within 10 km231
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C7 monthsNone

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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.