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The Red Tower and the harbour, Alanya
AlanyaThe Red Tower and the harbour
Cardiff Castle, Cardiff
CardiffCardiff Castle

Photos: Alanya by Atlantic Ambience, Pexels License; Cardiff by Tevfik Teker, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

Alanya or Cardiff?

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
  • prices

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

Choose Cardiff for

  • live music and the arts
  • getting around
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Cardiff’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, Cardiff 30: Alanya leads by 54 points.
Food & drink. Alanya 43, Cardiff 45: Cardiff leads by 2 points.
Culture & sights. Alanya 44, Cardiff 58: Cardiff leads by 14 points.
Nightlife. Alanya 58, Cardiff 50: Alanya leads by 8 points.
Nature & outdoors. Alanya 68, Cardiff 70: Cardiff leads by 2 points.
Day trips. Alanya 62, Cardiff 72: Cardiff leads by 10 points.
Good for families. Alanya 70, Cardiff 58: Alanya leads by 12 points.
Getting around. Alanya 50, Cardiff 66: Cardiff leads by 16 points.
Shopping & style. Alanya 34, Cardiff 50: Cardiff leads by 16 points.
Affordability. Alanya 65, Cardiff 46: Alanya leads by 19 points.
Live music & performing arts. Alanya 15, Cardiff 57: Cardiff leads by 42 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Alanya 56, Cardiff 27: Alanya leads by 29 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Alanya and Cardiff.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Alanya
54match

Wins on beaches and wellness with your weighting.

Cardiff
52match

Wins on live music and the arts 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

Cardiff in July

20 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
83 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
17 °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.

Cardiff 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.

Cardiff's sunshine is measured 83 km from the centre, at Lyneham.

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. Cardiff: 1991-2020 normals, Cardiff-Wales Airport (14.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAlanyaCardiff
Official languageTurkishEnglish
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+3UTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112112 or 999
Elevation10 m41 m
Main airportGazipaşa-Alanya Airport (GZP)38 km from centre22 non-stop destinationsCardiff International Airport (CWL)15 km from centre30 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureAlanyaCardiff
City population364,180383,536
People per km²2282,734
Museums within 10 km29
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
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.