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The Red Tower and the harbour, Alanya
AlanyaThe Red Tower and the harbour
A galleon on the Motława below the old crane, Gdansk
GdanskA galleon on the Motława below the old crane

Photos: Alanya by Atlantic Ambience, Pexels License; Gdansk by Nikater, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Alanya or Gdansk?

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
  • wellness
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Gdansk for

  • live music and the arts
  • culture and sights
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Gdansk’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, Gdansk 40: Alanya leads by 44 points.
Food & drink. Alanya 43, Gdansk 50: Gdansk leads by 7 points.
Culture & sights. Alanya 44, Gdansk 68: Gdansk leads by 24 points.
Nightlife. Alanya 58, Gdansk 52: Alanya leads by 6 points.
Nature & outdoors. Alanya 68, Gdansk 58: Alanya leads by 10 points.
Day trips. Alanya and Gdansk are level on 62.
Good for families. Alanya 70, Gdansk 62: Alanya leads by 8 points.
Getting around. Alanya 50, Gdansk 72: Gdansk leads by 22 points.
Shopping & style. Alanya 34, Gdansk 42: Gdansk leads by 8 points.
Affordability. Alanya 65, Gdansk 68: Gdansk leads by 3 points.
Live music & performing arts. Alanya 15, Gdansk 52: Gdansk leads by 37 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Alanya 56, Gdansk 36: Alanya leads by 20 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Alanya and Gdansk.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Alanya
54match

Wins on beaches and wellness with your weighting.

Gdansk
55match

Wins on live music and the arts and culture and sights 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

Gdansk in July

22 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
85 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
18 °Csea
17 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.

Gdansk 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.

Gdansk's sunshine is measured 55 km from the centre, at Elblag.

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. Gdansk: 1991-2020 normals, Gdansk-Rebiechowo (12.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAlanyaGdansk
Official languageTurkishPolish
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Zloty (PLN)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCE50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation10 m11 m
Main airportGazipaşa-Alanya Airport (GZP)38 km from centre22 non-stop destinationsGdańsk Lech Wałęsa Airport (GDN)13 km from centre72 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureAlanyaGdansk
City population364,180487,834
People per km²228714
Museums within 10 km234
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Swim season, months above 21 °C7 monthsNone

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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.