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The Red Tower and the harbour, Alanya
AlanyaThe Red Tower and the harbour
The Turtle Tower in Hoan Kiem Lake, Hanoi
HanoiThe Turtle Tower in Hoan Kiem Lake

Photos: Alanya by Atlantic Ambience, Pexels License; Hanoi by xiquinhosilva, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Alanya or Hanoi?

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
  • families
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Hanoi for

  • food and drink
  • prices
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on Hanoi’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, Hanoi 6: Alanya leads by 78 points.
Food & drink. Alanya 43, Hanoi 85: Hanoi leads by 42 points.
Culture & sights. Alanya 44, Hanoi 72: Hanoi leads by 28 points.
Nightlife. Alanya 58, Hanoi 50: Alanya leads by 8 points.
Nature & outdoors. Alanya 68, Hanoi 52: Alanya leads by 16 points.
Day trips. Alanya 62, Hanoi 58: Alanya leads by 4 points.
Good for families. Alanya 70, Hanoi 35: Alanya leads by 35 points.
Getting around. Alanya 50, Hanoi 36: Alanya leads by 14 points.
Shopping & style. Alanya 34, Hanoi 50: Hanoi leads by 16 points.
Affordability. Alanya 65, Hanoi 98: Hanoi leads by 33 points.
Live music & performing arts. Alanya 15, Hanoi 40: Hanoi leads by 25 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Alanya 56, Hanoi 46: Alanya leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Alanya and Hanoi.

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 beaches and families with your weighting.

Hanoi
52match

Wins on food and drink and prices 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

Hanoi in July

34 °Cdaytime high
27 °Cnight-time low
311 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
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.

Hanoi's sunshine is measured 86 km from the centre, at Phu Lien.

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. Hanoi: 1991-2020 normals, Ha Noi (4.4 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAlanyaHanoi
Official languageTurkishVietnamese
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Dong (VND)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzACFG220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC+7
Emergency number112Police 113, ambulance 115, fire 114
Elevation10 m10 m
Main airportGazipaşa-Alanya Airport (GZP)38 km from centre22 non-stop destinationsNoi Bai International Airport (HAN)22 km from centre91 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days-

By the numbers

MeasureAlanyaHanoi
City population364,1808,717,600
People per km²2282,595
Museums within 10 km214
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
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.