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The Red Tower and the harbour, Alanya
AlanyaThe Red Tower and the harbour
Main Street in winter with the mountains behind, Breckenridge
BreckenridgeMain Street in winter with the mountains behind

Photos: Alanya by Atlantic Ambience, Pexels License; Breckenridge by Jeff Gunn, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Alanya or Breckenridge?

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
  • nightlife

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

Choose Breckenridge for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Breckenridge’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, Breckenridge 4: Alanya leads by 80 points.
Food & drink. Alanya 43, Breckenridge 33: Alanya leads by 10 points.
Culture & sights. Alanya 44, Breckenridge 20: Alanya leads by 24 points.
Nightlife. Alanya 58, Breckenridge 30: Alanya leads by 28 points.
Nature & outdoors. Alanya 68, Breckenridge 90: Breckenridge leads by 22 points.
Day trips. Alanya 62, Breckenridge 44: Alanya leads by 18 points.
Good for families. Alanya 70, Breckenridge 60: Alanya leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Alanya 50, Breckenridge 62: Breckenridge leads by 12 points.
Shopping & style. Alanya 34, Breckenridge 25: Alanya leads by 9 points.
Affordability. Alanya 65, Breckenridge 10: Alanya leads by 55 points.
Live music & performing arts. Alanya 15, Breckenridge 32: Breckenridge leads by 17 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Alanya 56, Breckenridge 30: Alanya leads by 26 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Alanya and Breckenridge.

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.

Breckenridge
37match

Wins on nature and the outdoors 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

Breckenridge in July

21 °Cdaytime high
5 °Cnight-time low
41 mmrain in the month
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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AlanyaBreckenridge

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.

Breckenridge's temperatures are measured 38 km from the centre, at Leadville / Stringtown.

Breckenridge 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. Breckenridge: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Leadville / Stringtown (37.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAlanyaBreckenridge
Official languageTurkish-
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC-7, UTC-6 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation10 m2,926 m
Main airportGazipaşa-Alanya Airport (GZP)38 km from centre22 non-stop destinationsDenver International Airport (DEN)124 km from centre231 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureAlanyaBreckenridge
City population364,1805,078
People per km²228332
Museums within 10 km20
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
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.