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The Red Tower and the harbour, Alanya
AlanyaThe Red Tower and the harbour
The old town hall, Boca Raton
Boca RatonThe old town hall

Photos: Alanya by Atlantic Ambience, Pexels License; Boca Raton by Spudgun67, CC0.

Alanya or Boca Raton?

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
  • getting around
  • nightlife

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

Choose Boca Raton for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Boca Raton’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, Boca Raton 82: Alanya leads by 2 points.
Food & drink. Alanya 43, Boca Raton 44: Boca Raton leads by 1 points.
Culture & sights. Alanya 44, Boca Raton 28: Alanya leads by 16 points.
Nightlife. Alanya 58, Boca Raton 32: Alanya leads by 26 points.
Nature & outdoors. Alanya 68, Boca Raton 50: Alanya leads by 18 points.
Day trips. Alanya 62, Boca Raton 60: Alanya leads by 2 points.
Good for families. Alanya 70, Boca Raton 62: Alanya leads by 8 points.
Getting around. Alanya 50, Boca Raton 18: Alanya leads by 32 points.
Shopping & style. Alanya 34, Boca Raton 54: Boca Raton leads by 20 points.
Affordability. Alanya 65, Boca Raton 22: Alanya leads by 43 points.
Live music & performing arts. Alanya 15, Boca Raton 33: Boca Raton leads by 18 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Alanya 56, Boca Raton 42: Alanya leads by 14 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Alanya and Boca Raton.

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 getting around with your weighting.

Boca Raton
44match

Wins on shopping and live music and the arts 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

Boca Raton in July

32 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
191 mmrain in the month
29 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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AlanyaBoca Raton

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.

Boca Raton 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. Boca Raton: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Pompano Beach / Kendall Green (13.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAlanyaBoca Raton
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 m4 m
Main airportGazipaşa-Alanya Airport (GZP)38 km from centre22 non-stop destinationsFort Lauderdale Hollywood International Airport (FLL)33 km from centre138 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureAlanyaBoca Raton
City population364,18097,422
People per km²2281,203
Museums within 10 km25
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.