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The Red Tower and the harbour, Alanya
AlanyaThe Red Tower and the harbour
The pyramids of Giza, Cairo
CairoThe pyramids of Giza

Photos: Alanya by Atlantic Ambience, Pexels License; Cairo by Ricardo Liberato, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Alanya or Cairo?

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
  • wellness
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Cairo for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Cairo’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, Cairo 10: Alanya leads by 74 points.
Food & drink. Alanya 43, Cairo 60: Cairo leads by 17 points.
Culture & sights. Alanya 44, Cairo 96: Cairo leads by 52 points.
Nightlife. Alanya 58, Cairo 48: Alanya leads by 10 points.
Nature & outdoors. Alanya 68, Cairo 30: Alanya leads by 38 points.
Day trips. Alanya 62, Cairo 66: Cairo leads by 4 points.
Good for families. Alanya 70, Cairo 32: Alanya leads by 38 points.
Getting around. Alanya 50, Cairo 35: Alanya leads by 15 points.
Shopping & style. Alanya 34, Cairo 58: Cairo leads by 24 points.
Affordability. Alanya 65, Cairo 95: Cairo leads by 30 points.
Live music & performing arts. Alanya 15, Cairo 50: Cairo leads by 35 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Alanya 56, Cairo 15: Alanya leads by 41 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Alanya and Cairo.

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 wellness with your weighting.

Cairo
50match

Wins on culture and sights 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
No recordsunshine a day
28 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Cairo in July

36 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
No seasea
14 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. Cairo: 1991-2020 normals, Helwan (21.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAlanyaCairo
Official languageTurkishArabic
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Egyptian Pound (EGP)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112Police 122, ambulance 123, fire 180
Elevation10 m23 m
Main airportGazipaşa-Alanya Airport (GZP)38 km from centre22 non-stop destinationsCairo International Airport (CAI)17 km from centre127 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureAlanyaCairo
City population364,1809,801,536
People per km²22818,564
Museums within 10 km248
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.