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The Red Tower and the harbour, Alanya
AlanyaThe Red Tower and the harbour
Florence and the Arno, Florence
FlorenceFlorence and the Arno

Photos: Alanya by Atlantic Ambience, Pexels License; Florence by Wolfgang Weiser, Pexels License.

Alanya or Florence?

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
  • families

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

Choose Florence for

  • culture and sights
  • live music and the arts
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Florence’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, Florence 14: Alanya leads by 70 points.
Food & drink. Alanya 43, Florence 74: Florence leads by 31 points.
Culture & sights. Alanya 44, Florence 94: Florence leads by 50 points.
Nightlife. Alanya 58, Florence 42: Alanya leads by 16 points.
Nature & outdoors. Alanya 68, Florence 58: Alanya leads by 10 points.
Day trips. Alanya 62, Florence 98: Florence leads by 36 points.
Good for families. Alanya 70, Florence 45: Alanya leads by 25 points.
Getting around. Alanya 50, Florence 78: Florence leads by 28 points.
Shopping & style. Alanya 34, Florence 72: Florence leads by 38 points.
Affordability. Alanya 65, Florence 35: Alanya leads by 30 points.
Live music & performing arts. Alanya 15, Florence 58: Florence leads by 43 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Alanya 56, Florence 42: Alanya leads by 14 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Alanya and Florence.

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.

Florence
Best match
59match

Wins on culture and sights 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
No recordsunshine a day
28 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Florence in July

32 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
37 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
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.

Florence 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.

Florence's sunshine is measured 71 km from the centre, at Pisa / S. Giusto.

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. Florence: 1995-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Firenze / Peretola (5.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAlanyaFlorence
Official languageTurkishItalian
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation10 m50 m
Main airportGazipaşa-Alanya Airport (GZP)38 km from centre22 non-stop destinationsFlorence Airport, Peretola (FLR)6 km from centre46 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureAlanyaFlorence
City population364,180360,930
People per km²2283,528
Museums within 10 km2141
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km04
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.