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The Red Tower and the harbour, Alanya
AlanyaThe Red Tower and the harbour
The wide beach and its hotels in morning light, Daytona Beach
Daytona BeachThe wide beach and its hotels in morning light

Photos: Alanya by Atlantic Ambience, Pexels License; Daytona Beach by Han Zheng, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Alanya or Daytona Beach?

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

  • getting around
  • wellness
  • prices

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

Choose Daytona Beach for

  • live music and the arts
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Daytona Beach’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, Daytona Beach 80: Alanya leads by 4 points.
Food & drink. Alanya 43, Daytona Beach 36: Alanya leads by 7 points.
Culture & sights. Alanya 44, Daytona Beach 30: Alanya leads by 14 points.
Nightlife. Alanya 58, Daytona Beach 40: Alanya leads by 18 points.
Nature & outdoors. Alanya 68, Daytona Beach 56: Alanya leads by 12 points.
Day trips. Alanya 62, Daytona Beach 66: Daytona Beach leads by 4 points.
Good for families. Alanya 70, Daytona Beach 60: Alanya leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Alanya 50, Daytona Beach 18: Alanya leads by 32 points.
Shopping & style. Alanya 34, Daytona Beach 27: Alanya leads by 7 points.
Affordability. Alanya 65, Daytona Beach 46: Alanya leads by 19 points.
Live music & performing arts. Alanya 15, Daytona Beach 30: Daytona Beach leads by 15 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Alanya 56, Daytona Beach 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 Daytona Beach.

Your match

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

Alanya
Best match
54match

Wins on getting around and wellness with your weighting.

Daytona Beach
43match

Wins on live music and the arts and day trips 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

Daytona Beach in July

33 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
153 mmrain in the month
28 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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AlanyaDaytona Beach

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. Daytona Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Daytona Beach / Mansfield Mobile Home Park (4.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAlanyaDaytona Beach
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 m4 m
Main airportGazipaşa-Alanya Airport (GZP)38 km from centre22 non-stop destinationsDaytona Beach International Airport (DAB)5 km from centre8 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureAlanyaDaytona Beach
City population364,18072,647
People per km²228440
Museums within 10 km26
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C7 months9 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.