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The Red Tower and the harbour, Alanya
AlanyaThe Red Tower and the harbour
The twin towers of the cathedral over Plaza de Armas, Guadalajara
GuadalajaraThe twin towers of the cathedral over Plaza de Armas

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

Alanya or Guadalajara?

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
  • families

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

Choose Guadalajara for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Guadalajara’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, Guadalajara 5: Alanya leads by 79 points.
Food & drink. Alanya 43, Guadalajara 75: Guadalajara leads by 32 points.
Culture & sights. Alanya 44, Guadalajara 62: Guadalajara leads by 18 points.
Nightlife. Alanya 58, Guadalajara 68: Guadalajara leads by 10 points.
Nature & outdoors. Alanya 68, Guadalajara 55: Alanya leads by 13 points.
Day trips. Alanya 62, Guadalajara 66: Guadalajara leads by 4 points.
Good for families. Alanya 70, Guadalajara 55: Alanya leads by 15 points.
Getting around. Alanya 50, Guadalajara 40: Alanya leads by 10 points.
Shopping & style. Alanya 34, Guadalajara 60: Guadalajara leads by 26 points.
Affordability. Alanya 65, Guadalajara 78: Guadalajara leads by 13 points.
Live music & performing arts. Alanya 15, Guadalajara 60: Guadalajara leads by 45 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Alanya 56, Guadalajara 35: Alanya leads by 21 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Alanya and Guadalajara.

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.

Guadalajara
55match

Wins on live music and the arts and food and drink 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

Guadalajara in July

25 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
205 mmrain in the month
No seasea
13 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.

Guadalajara 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. Guadalajara: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureAlanyaGuadalajara
Official languageTurkishSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC-6
Emergency number112911
Elevation10 m1,536 m
Main airportGazipaşa-Alanya Airport (GZP)38 km from centre22 non-stop destinationsGuadalajara International Airport (GDL)17 km from centre68 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureAlanyaGuadalajara
City population364,1801,385,621
People per km²2289,556
Museums within 10 km217
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
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. 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.