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The Red Tower and the harbour, Alanya
AlanyaThe Red Tower and the harbour
Praia Mole in Florianopolis, Florianopolis
FlorianopolisPraia Mole in Florianopolis

Photos: Alanya by Atlantic Ambience, Pexels License; Florianopolis by Papa Pic, CC0.

Alanya or Florianopolis?

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
  • day trips
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Florianopolis for

  • food and drink
  • live music and the arts
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Florianopolis’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, Florianopolis 85: Florianopolis leads by 1 points.
Food & drink. Alanya 43, Florianopolis 58: Florianopolis leads by 15 points.
Culture & sights. Alanya 44, Florianopolis 33: Alanya leads by 11 points.
Nightlife. Alanya 58, Florianopolis 60: Florianopolis leads by 2 points.
Nature & outdoors. Alanya 68, Florianopolis 78: Florianopolis leads by 10 points.
Day trips. Alanya 62, Florianopolis 50: Alanya leads by 12 points.
Good for families. Alanya 70, Florianopolis 60: Alanya leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Alanya 50, Florianopolis 28: Alanya leads by 22 points.
Shopping & style. Alanya 34, Florianopolis 33: Alanya leads by 1 points.
Affordability. Alanya 65, Florianopolis 60: Alanya leads by 5 points.
Live music & performing arts. Alanya 15, Florianopolis 28: Florianopolis leads by 13 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Alanya 56, Florianopolis 45: Alanya leads by 11 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Alanya and Florianopolis.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Alanya
54match

Wins on getting around and day trips with your weighting.

Florianopolis
52match

Wins on food and drink 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

Florianopolis in July

21 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
91 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
18 °Csea
11 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. Florianopolis: 1991-2020 normals, Florianopolis (1.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAlanyaFlorianopolis
Official languageTurkishPortuguese
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Brazilian Real (BRL)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCN60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC-3
Emergency number112Police 190, ambulance 192, fire 193
Elevation10 m3 m
Main airportGazipaşa-Alanya Airport (GZP)38 km from centre22 non-stop destinationsHercílio Luz International Airport (FLN)9 km from centre21 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureAlanyaFlorianopolis
City population364,180587,486
People per km²228870
Museums within 10 km211
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C7 months7 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.