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The Red Tower and the harbour, Alanya
AlanyaThe Red Tower and the harbour
A dhow below the towers of West Bay, Doha
DohaA dhow below the towers of West Bay

Photos: Alanya by Atlantic Ambience, Pexels License; Doha by Gregory Hawken Kramer, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Alanya or Doha?

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

  • nature and the outdoors
  • day trips
  • beaches

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

Choose Doha for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Doha’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, Doha 45: Alanya leads by 39 points.
Food & drink. Alanya 43, Doha 55: Doha leads by 12 points.
Culture & sights. Alanya 44, Doha 55: Doha leads by 11 points.
Nightlife. Alanya 58, Doha 20: Alanya leads by 38 points.
Nature & outdoors. Alanya 68, Doha 7: Alanya leads by 61 points.
Day trips. Alanya 62, Doha 5: Alanya leads by 57 points.
Good for families. Alanya 70, Doha 60: Alanya leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Alanya 50, Doha 45: Alanya leads by 5 points.
Shopping & style. Alanya 34, Doha 60: Doha leads by 26 points.
Affordability. Alanya 65, Doha 38: Alanya leads by 27 points.
Live music & performing arts. Alanya 15, Doha 30: Doha leads by 15 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Alanya 56, Doha 38: Alanya leads by 18 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Alanya and Doha.

Your match

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

Alanya
Best match
54match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and day trips with your weighting.

Doha
38match

Wins on shopping 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

Doha in July

43 °Cdaytime high
33 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
33 °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.

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. Doha: 1991-2020 normals, Doha International Airport (5.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAlanyaDoha
Official languageTurkishArabic
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Qatari Rial (QAR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzG240 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC+3
Emergency number112999
Elevation10 m0 m
Main airportGazipaşa-Alanya Airport (GZP)38 km from centre22 non-stop destinationsHamad International Airport (DOH)8 km from centre194 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days-

By the numbers

MeasureAlanyaDoha
City population364,1801,186,023
People per km²2288,985
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.