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The Red Tower and the harbour, Alanya
AlanyaThe Red Tower and the harbour
The Teatro Colón, Buenos Aires
Buenos AiresThe Teatro Colón

Photos: Alanya by Atlantic Ambience, Pexels License; Buenos Aires by Bernard Gagnon, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Alanya or Buenos Aires?

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
  • wellness

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

Choose Buenos Aires for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Buenos Aires’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, Buenos Aires 7: Alanya leads by 77 points.
Food & drink. Alanya 43, Buenos Aires 75: Buenos Aires leads by 32 points.
Culture & sights. Alanya 44, Buenos Aires 71: Buenos Aires leads by 27 points.
Nightlife. Alanya 58, Buenos Aires 95: Buenos Aires leads by 37 points.
Nature & outdoors. Alanya 68, Buenos Aires 38: Alanya leads by 30 points.
Day trips. Alanya 62, Buenos Aires 60: Alanya leads by 2 points.
Good for families. Alanya 70, Buenos Aires 52: Alanya leads by 18 points.
Getting around. Alanya 50, Buenos Aires 62: Buenos Aires leads by 12 points.
Shopping & style. Alanya 34, Buenos Aires 60: Buenos Aires leads by 26 points.
Affordability. Alanya 65, Buenos Aires 55: Alanya leads by 10 points.
Live music & performing arts. Alanya 15, Buenos Aires 75: Buenos Aires leads by 60 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Alanya 56, Buenos Aires 28: Alanya leads by 28 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Alanya and Buenos Aires.

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.

Buenos Aires
Best match
57match

Wins on live music and the arts and nightlife 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

Buenos Aires in July

15 °Cdaytime high
8 °Cnight-time low
50 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
13 °Csea
10 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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AlanyaBuenos Aires

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. Buenos Aires: 1991-2020 normals, Aeroparque Bs. As. Aerodrome (4.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAlanyaBuenos Aires
Official languageTurkishSpanish
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Argentine Peso (ARS)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCI220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+3UTC-3
Emergency number112117 or 911
Elevation10 m25 m
Main airportGazipaşa-Alanya Airport (GZP)38 km from centre22 non-stop destinationsEzeiza International Airport - Ministro Pistarini (EZE)28 km from centre48 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureAlanyaBuenos Aires
City population364,1803,121,707
People per km²22815,355
Museums within 10 km276
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C7 months4 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.