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The Red Tower and the harbour, Alanya
AlanyaThe Red Tower and the harbour
Fort San Pedro in Cebu City, Cebu
CebuFort San Pedro in Cebu City

Photos: Alanya by Atlantic Ambience, Pexels License; Cebu by xiquinhosilva, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Alanya or Cebu?

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

  • families
  • beaches
  • getting around

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

Choose Cebu for

  • food and drink
  • prices
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Cebu’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, Cebu 60: Alanya leads by 24 points.
Food & drink. Alanya 43, Cebu 58: Cebu leads by 15 points.
Culture & sights. Alanya 44, Cebu 40: Alanya leads by 4 points.
Nightlife. Alanya 58, Cebu 46: Alanya leads by 12 points.
Nature & outdoors. Alanya 68, Cebu 60: Alanya leads by 8 points.
Day trips. Alanya 62, Cebu 44: Alanya leads by 18 points.
Good for families. Alanya 70, Cebu 45: Alanya leads by 25 points.
Getting around. Alanya 50, Cebu 26: Alanya leads by 24 points.
Shopping & style. Alanya 34, Cebu 44: Cebu leads by 10 points.
Affordability. Alanya 65, Cebu 80: Cebu leads by 15 points.
Live music & performing arts. Alanya 15, Cebu 25: Cebu leads by 10 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Alanya 56, Cebu 50: Alanya leads by 6 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Alanya and Cebu.

Your match

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

Alanya
Best match
54match

Wins on families and beaches with your weighting.

Cebu
48match

Wins on food and drink and prices 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
28 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Cebu in July

32 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
205 mmrain in the month
29 °Csea
13 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. Cebu: 1991-2020 normals, Mactan (7.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAlanyaCebu
Official languageTurkishEnglish, Filipino, Taglish
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Philippine Peso (PHP)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzABC220 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC+8
Emergency number112911
Elevation10 m135 m
Main airportGazipaşa-Alanya Airport (GZP)38 km from centre22 non-stop destinationsMactan Cebu International Airport (CEB)9 km from centre42 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days18 days

By the numbers

MeasureAlanyaCebu
City population364,180965,332
People per km²2283,065
Museums within 10 km25
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C7 months12 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.