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The Red Tower and the harbour, Alanya
AlanyaThe Red Tower and the harbour
Bratislava Castle, Bratislava
BratislavaBratislava Castle

Photos: Alanya by Atlantic Ambience, Pexels License; Bratislava by C.Stadler/Bwag, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Alanya or Bratislava?

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
  • families
  • wellness

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

Choose Bratislava for

  • live music and the arts
  • getting around
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Bratislava’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, Bratislava 15: Alanya leads by 69 points.
Food & drink. Alanya 43, Bratislava 42: Alanya leads by 1 points.
Culture & sights. Alanya 44, Bratislava 45: Bratislava leads by 1 points.
Nightlife. Alanya 58, Bratislava 40: Alanya leads by 18 points.
Nature & outdoors. Alanya 68, Bratislava 55: Alanya leads by 13 points.
Day trips. Alanya 62, Bratislava 78: Bratislava leads by 16 points.
Good for families. Alanya 70, Bratislava 40: Alanya leads by 30 points.
Getting around. Alanya 50, Bratislava 68: Bratislava leads by 18 points.
Shopping & style. Alanya 34, Bratislava 35: Bratislava leads by 1 points.
Affordability. Alanya 65, Bratislava 62: Alanya leads by 3 points.
Live music & performing arts. Alanya 15, Bratislava 48: Bratislava leads by 33 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Alanya 56, Bratislava 36: Alanya leads by 20 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Alanya and Bratislava.

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 families with your weighting.

Bratislava
47match

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
No recordsunshine a day
28 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Bratislava in July

27 °Cdaytime high
17 °Cnight-time low
82 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
No seasea
16 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.

Bratislava 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.

Bratislava's sunshine is measured 56 km from the centre, at Wien / Hohe Warte.

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. Bratislava: 1991-2020 normals, Bratislava Ivanka (8.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAlanyaBratislava
Official languageTurkishSlovak
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation10 m152 m
Main airportGazipaşa-Alanya Airport (GZP)38 km from centre22 non-stop destinationsM. R. Štefánik Airport (BTS)8 km from centre67 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureAlanyaBratislava
City population364,180480,902
People per km²2281,308
Museums within 10 km222
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Swim season, months above 21 °C7 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.