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The Red Tower and the harbour, Alanya
AlanyaThe Red Tower and the harbour
The Fisherman's Bastion, Budapest
BudapestThe Fisherman's Bastion

Photos: Alanya by Atlantic Ambience, Pexels License; Budapest by Perituss, CC0.

Alanya or Budapest?

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
  • nature and the outdoors
  • families

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

Choose Budapest for

  • live music and the arts
  • wellness
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on Budapest’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, Budapest 25: Alanya leads by 59 points.
Food & drink. Alanya 43, Budapest 63: Budapest leads by 20 points.
Culture & sights. Alanya 44, Budapest 80: Budapest leads by 36 points.
Nightlife. Alanya 58, Budapest 78: Budapest leads by 20 points.
Nature & outdoors. Alanya 68, Budapest 58: Alanya leads by 10 points.
Day trips. Alanya 62, Budapest 68: Budapest leads by 6 points.
Good for families. Alanya 70, Budapest 62: Alanya leads by 8 points.
Getting around. Alanya 50, Budapest 78: Budapest leads by 28 points.
Shopping & style. Alanya 34, Budapest 55: Budapest leads by 21 points.
Affordability. Alanya 65, Budapest 62: Alanya leads by 3 points.
Live music & performing arts. Alanya 15, Budapest 76: Budapest leads by 61 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Alanya 56, Budapest 98: Budapest leads by 42 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Alanya and Budapest.

Your match

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

Alanya
54match

Wins on beaches and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Budapest
Best match
67match

Wins on live music and the arts and wellness 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

Budapest in July

27 °Cdaytime high
17 °Cnight-time low
75 mmrain in the month
10 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.

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. Budapest: 1991-2020 normals, Budapest Met Center (2.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAlanyaBudapest
Official languageTurkishHungarian
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Forint (HUF)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation10 m117 m
Main airportGazipaşa-Alanya Airport (GZP)38 km from centre22 non-stop destinationsBudapest Liszt Ferenc International Airport (BUD)18 km from centre157 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureAlanyaBudapest
City population364,1801,675,777
People per km²2283,191
Museums within 10 km281
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
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.