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The Red Tower and the harbour, Alanya
AlanyaThe Red Tower and the harbour
Rozenhoedkaai and the Belfry, Bruges
BrugesRozenhoedkaai and the Belfry

Photos: Alanya by Atlantic Ambience, Pexels License; Bruges by Michielverbeek, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Alanya or Bruges?

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
  • nightlife
  • prices

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

Choose Bruges for

  • culture and sights
  • getting around
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Bruges’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, Bruges 28: Alanya leads by 56 points.
Food & drink. Alanya 43, Bruges 56: Bruges leads by 13 points.
Culture & sights. Alanya 44, Bruges 75: Bruges leads by 31 points.
Nightlife. Alanya 58, Bruges 27: Alanya leads by 31 points.
Nature & outdoors. Alanya 68, Bruges 40: Alanya leads by 28 points.
Day trips. Alanya 62, Bruges 85: Bruges leads by 23 points.
Good for families. Alanya 70, Bruges 54: Alanya leads by 16 points.
Getting around. Alanya 50, Bruges 78: Bruges leads by 28 points.
Shopping & style. Alanya 34, Bruges 45: Bruges leads by 11 points.
Affordability. Alanya 65, Bruges 36: Alanya leads by 29 points.
Live music & performing arts. Alanya 15, Bruges 40: Bruges leads by 25 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Alanya 56, Bruges 40: Alanya leads by 16 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Alanya and Bruges.

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 nightlife with your weighting.

Bruges
50match

Wins on culture and sights 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

Bruges in July

21 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
77 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
18 °Csea
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.

Bruges 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.

Bruges's sunshine is measured 37 km from the centre, at Vlissingen.

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. Bruges: 2009-2025 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Zeebrugge / Zeemanshaard (15.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAlanyaBruges
Official languageTurkishFrench, German, Dutch
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 m2 m
Main airportGazipaşa-Alanya Airport (GZP)38 km from centre22 non-stop destinationsBrussels Airport (BRU)94 km from centre191 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureAlanyaBruges
City population364,180118,509
People per km²228840
Museums within 10 km238
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
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.