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The Red Tower and the harbour, Alanya
AlanyaThe Red Tower and the harbour
The beach with its parasols and the boardwalk, Bethany Beach
Bethany BeachThe beach with its parasols and the boardwalk

Photos: Alanya by Atlantic Ambience, Pexels License; Bethany Beach by Doug Olson, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Alanya or Bethany Beach?

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

  • nightlife
  • prices
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Bethany Beach for

Bethany Beach does not lead in any category we score.

What lies behind each score is written up on Bethany Beach’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, Bethany Beach 72: Alanya leads by 12 points.
Food & drink. Alanya 43, Bethany Beach 35: Alanya leads by 8 points.
Culture & sights. Alanya 44, Bethany Beach 10: Alanya leads by 34 points.
Nightlife. Alanya 58, Bethany Beach 12: Alanya leads by 46 points.
Nature & outdoors. Alanya 68, Bethany Beach 48: Alanya leads by 20 points.
Day trips. Alanya 62, Bethany Beach 45: Alanya leads by 17 points.
Good for families. Alanya 70, Bethany Beach 66: Alanya leads by 4 points.
Getting around. Alanya 50, Bethany Beach 33: Alanya leads by 17 points.
Shopping & style. Alanya 34, Bethany Beach 28: Alanya leads by 6 points.
Affordability. Alanya 65, Bethany Beach 30: Alanya leads by 35 points.
Live music & performing arts. Alanya 15, Bethany Beach 14: Alanya leads by 1 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Alanya 56, Bethany Beach 33: Alanya leads by 23 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Alanya and Bethany Beach.

Your match

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

Alanya
Best match
54match

Wins on nightlife and prices with your weighting.

Bethany Beach
36match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

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

Bethany Beach in July

31 °Cdaytime high
20 °Cnight-time low
95 mmrain in the month
23 °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.

Bethany Beach's temperatures are measured 45 km from the centre, at Salisbury / Quail Ridge.

Bethany Beach 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. Bethany Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Salisbury / Quail Ridge (44.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAlanyaBethany Beach
Official languageTurkish-
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation10 m3 m
Main airportGazipaşa-Alanya Airport (GZP)38 km from centre22 non-stop destinationsSalisbury Ocean City Wicomico Regional Airport (SBY)45 km from centre4 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureAlanyaBethany Beach
City population364,180954
People per km²228318
Museums within 10 km20
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C7 months3 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.