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The Red Tower and the harbour, Alanya
AlanyaThe Red Tower and the harbour
Cloud Gate in Millennium Park, Chicago
ChicagoCloud Gate in Millennium Park

Photos: Alanya by Atlantic Ambience, Pexels License; Chicago by Jesus Toledo, Pexels License.

Alanya or Chicago?

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
  • prices
  • wellness

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

Choose Chicago for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Chicago’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, Chicago 50: Alanya leads by 34 points.
Food & drink. Alanya 43, Chicago 80: Chicago leads by 37 points.
Culture & sights. Alanya 44, Chicago 78: Chicago leads by 34 points.
Nightlife. Alanya 58, Chicago 77: Chicago leads by 19 points.
Nature & outdoors. Alanya 68, Chicago 48: Alanya leads by 20 points.
Day trips. Alanya 62, Chicago 42: Alanya leads by 20 points.
Good for families. Alanya 70, Chicago 78: Chicago leads by 8 points.
Getting around. Alanya 50, Chicago 72: Chicago leads by 22 points.
Shopping & style. Alanya 34, Chicago 70: Chicago leads by 36 points.
Affordability. Alanya 65, Chicago 33: Alanya leads by 32 points.
Live music & performing arts. Alanya 15, Chicago 82: Chicago leads by 67 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Alanya 56, Chicago 33: Alanya leads by 23 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Alanya and Chicago.

Your match

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

Alanya
54match

Wins on beaches and prices with your weighting.

Chicago
Best match
62match

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
28 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Chicago in July

29 °Cdaytime high
20 °Cnight-time low
102 mmrain in the month
21 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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AlanyaChicago

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. Chicago: 1991-2020 normals, Chicago Midway Airport (14.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAlanyaChicago
Official languageTurkish-
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC-6, UTC-5 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation10 m179 m
Main airportGazipaşa-Alanya Airport (GZP)38 km from centre22 non-stop destinationsChicago O'Hare International Airport (ORD)25 km from centre274 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureAlanyaChicago
City population364,1802,746,388
People per km²2284,529
Museums within 10 km244
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C7 months1 month

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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.