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The Red Tower and the harbour, Alanya
AlanyaThe Red Tower and the harbour
The Cathedral of Sant'Agata, Catania
CataniaThe Cathedral of Sant'Agata

Photos: Alanya by Atlantic Ambience, Pexels License; Catania by Berthold Werner, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Alanya or Catania?

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

  • wellness
  • families
  • beaches

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

Choose Catania for

  • live music and the arts
  • food and drink
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Catania’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, Catania 72: Alanya leads by 12 points.
Food & drink. Alanya 43, Catania 77: Catania leads by 34 points.
Culture & sights. Alanya 44, Catania 62: Catania leads by 18 points.
Nightlife. Alanya 58, Catania 60: Catania leads by 2 points.
Nature & outdoors. Alanya 68, Catania 83: Catania leads by 15 points.
Day trips. Alanya 62, Catania 84: Catania leads by 22 points.
Good for families. Alanya 70, Catania 50: Alanya leads by 20 points.
Getting around. Alanya 50, Catania 48: Alanya leads by 2 points.
Shopping & style. Alanya 34, Catania 42: Catania leads by 8 points.
Affordability. Alanya 65, Catania 60: Alanya leads by 5 points.
Live music & performing arts. Alanya 15, Catania 55: Catania leads by 40 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Alanya 56, Catania 30: Alanya leads by 26 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Alanya and Catania.

Your match

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

Alanya
54match

Wins on wellness and families with your weighting.

Catania
Best match
60match

Wins on live music and the arts and food and drink 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

Catania in July

31 °Cdaytime high
20 °Cnight-time low
9 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
25 °Csea
15 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.

Catania's sunshine is measured 88 km from the centre, at Messina.

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. Catania: 1991-2020 normals, Catania / Fontanarossa (5.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAlanyaCatania
Official languageTurkishItalian
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation10 m7 m
Main airportGazipaşa-Alanya Airport (GZP)38 km from centre22 non-stop destinationsCatania-Fontanarossa Airport (CTA)4 km from centre96 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureAlanyaCatania
City population364,180311,584
People per km²2281,704
Museums within 10 km225
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Swim season, months above 21 °C7 months5 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.