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The Red Tower and the harbour, Alanya
AlanyaThe Red Tower and the harbour
The Anshun Bridge over the Jin River, Chengdu
ChengduThe Anshun Bridge over the Jin River

Photos: Alanya by Atlantic Ambience, Pexels License; Chengdu by TurnOnTheNight, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Alanya or Chengdu?

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
  • families

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

Choose Chengdu for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Chengdu’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, Chengdu 5: Alanya leads by 79 points.
Food & drink. Alanya 43, Chengdu 86: Chengdu leads by 43 points.
Culture & sights. Alanya 44, Chengdu 60: Chengdu leads by 16 points.
Nightlife. Alanya 58, Chengdu 68: Chengdu leads by 10 points.
Nature & outdoors. Alanya and Chengdu are level on 68.
Day trips. Alanya 62, Chengdu 80: Chengdu leads by 18 points.
Good for families. Alanya 70, Chengdu 65: Alanya leads by 5 points.
Getting around. Alanya 50, Chengdu 74: Chengdu leads by 24 points.
Shopping & style. Alanya 34, Chengdu 64: Chengdu leads by 30 points.
Affordability. Alanya 65, Chengdu 80: Chengdu leads by 15 points.
Live music & performing arts. Alanya 15, Chengdu 50: Chengdu leads by 35 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Alanya 56, Chengdu 58: Chengdu leads by 2 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Alanya and Chengdu.

Your match

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

Alanya
54match

Wins on beaches and families with your weighting.

Chengdu
Best match
63match

Wins on food and drink 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

Chengdu in July

31 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
177 mmrain in the month
4 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. Chengdu: 1991-2020 normals, Chengdu (4.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAlanyaChengdu
Official languageTurkishPutonghua
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Yuan Renminbi (CNY)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzACI220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC+8
Emergency number112Police 110, ambulance 120, fire 119
Elevation10 m500 m
Main airportGazipaşa-Alanya Airport (GZP)38 km from centre22 non-stop destinationsChengdu Shuangliu International Airport (CTU)16 km from centre77 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days6 days

By the numbers

MeasureAlanyaChengdu
City population364,18020,937,757
People per km²2281,456
Museums within 10 km210
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
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.