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The Red Tower and the harbour, Alanya
AlanyaThe Red Tower and the harbour
Skiers and chairlifts on the slopes in sunshine, Deer Valley
Deer ValleySkiers and chairlifts on the slopes in sunshine

Photos: Alanya by Atlantic Ambience, Pexels License; Deer Valley by Don Ramey Logan, CC BY 4.0, cropped.

Alanya or Deer Valley?

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
  • nightlife

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

Choose Deer Valley for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Deer Valley’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, Deer Valley 10: Alanya leads by 74 points.
Food & drink. Alanya 43, Deer Valley 38: Alanya leads by 5 points.
Culture & sights. Alanya 44, Deer Valley 15: Alanya leads by 29 points.
Nightlife. Alanya 58, Deer Valley 25: Alanya leads by 33 points.
Nature & outdoors. Alanya 68, Deer Valley 90: Deer Valley leads by 22 points.
Day trips. Alanya 62, Deer Valley 38: Alanya leads by 24 points.
Good for families. Alanya 70, Deer Valley 60: Alanya leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Alanya and Deer Valley are level on 50.
Shopping & style. Alanya 34, Deer Valley 25: Alanya leads by 9 points.
Affordability. Alanya 65, Deer Valley 4: Alanya leads by 61 points.
Live music & performing arts. Alanya 15, Deer Valley 30: Deer Valley leads by 15 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Alanya 56, Deer Valley 52: Alanya leads by 4 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Alanya and Deer Valley.

Your match

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

Alanya
Best match
54match

Wins on beaches and prices with your weighting.

Deer Valley
36match

Wins on nature and the outdoors 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
28 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Deer Valley in July

28 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
23 mmrain in the month
No seasea
15 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.

Deer Valley's temperatures are measured 82 km from the centre, at Evanston.

Deer Valley's station stands 297 m below the city centre, so the centre is likely a little cooler than the figures say.

Deer Valley 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.

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. Deer Valley: 1999-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Evanston (81.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAlanyaDeer Valley
Official languageTurkish-
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC-7, UTC-6 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation10 m2,474 m
Main airportGazipaşa-Alanya Airport (GZP)38 km from centre22 non-stop destinationsSalt Lake City International Airport (SLC)45 km from centre108 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureAlanyaDeer Valley
City population364,180-
People per km²228-
Museums within 10 km20
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.