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The Red Tower and the harbour, Alanya
AlanyaThe Red Tower and the harbour
Clearwater Beach in evening light, with its hotels and pier, Clearwater
ClearwaterClearwater Beach in evening light, with its hotels and pier

Photos: Alanya by Atlantic Ambience, Pexels License; Clearwater by ajay_suresh, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Alanya or Clearwater?

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

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • nightlife

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

Choose Clearwater for

  • live music and the arts
  • families
  • beaches

What lies behind each score is written up on Clearwater’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, Clearwater 90: Clearwater leads by 6 points.
Food & drink. Alanya 43, Clearwater 38: Alanya leads by 5 points.
Culture & sights. Alanya 44, Clearwater 18: Alanya leads by 26 points.
Nightlife. Alanya 58, Clearwater 34: Alanya leads by 24 points.
Nature & outdoors. Alanya 68, Clearwater 55: Alanya leads by 13 points.
Day trips. Alanya 62, Clearwater 58: Alanya leads by 4 points.
Good for families. Alanya 70, Clearwater 78: Clearwater leads by 8 points.
Getting around. Alanya 50, Clearwater 28: Alanya leads by 22 points.
Shopping & style. Alanya 34, Clearwater 27: Alanya leads by 7 points.
Affordability. Alanya 65, Clearwater 35: Alanya leads by 30 points.
Live music & performing arts. Alanya 15, Clearwater 36: Clearwater leads by 21 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Alanya 56, Clearwater 40: Alanya leads by 16 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Alanya and Clearwater.

Your match

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

Alanya
Best match
54match

Wins on prices and culture and sights with your weighting.

Clearwater
45match

Wins on live music and the arts and families 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

Clearwater in July

32 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
188 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
30 °Csea
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.

Clearwater 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.

Clearwater's sunshine is measured 26 km from the centre, at Tampa International Airport.

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. Clearwater: 2006-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Saint Petersburg / High Point (12.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAlanyaClearwater
Official languageTurkish-
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation10 m9 m
Main airportGazipaşa-Alanya Airport (GZP)38 km from centre22 non-stop destinationsSt. Petersburg Clearwater International Airport (PIE)13 km from centre60 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureAlanyaClearwater
City population364,180117,292
People per km²2281,154
Museums within 10 km24
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C7 months8 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.