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The Red Tower and the harbour, Alanya
AlanyaThe Red Tower and the harbour
The floating torii of Itsukushima at Miyajima, Hiroshima
HiroshimaThe floating torii of Itsukushima at Miyajima

Photos: Alanya by Atlantic Ambience, Pexels License; Hiroshima by Guohua Song, Pexels License.

Alanya or Hiroshima?

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
  • nightlife
  • families

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

Choose Hiroshima for

  • getting around
  • food and drink
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Hiroshima’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, Hiroshima 30: Alanya leads by 54 points.
Food & drink. Alanya 43, Hiroshima 66: Hiroshima leads by 23 points.
Culture & sights. Alanya 44, Hiroshima 60: Hiroshima leads by 16 points.
Nightlife. Alanya 58, Hiroshima 45: Alanya leads by 13 points.
Nature & outdoors. Alanya 68, Hiroshima 62: Alanya leads by 6 points.
Day trips. Alanya 62, Hiroshima 80: Hiroshima leads by 18 points.
Good for families. Alanya 70, Hiroshima 60: Alanya leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Alanya 50, Hiroshima 74: Hiroshima leads by 24 points.
Shopping & style. Alanya 34, Hiroshima 52: Hiroshima leads by 18 points.
Affordability. Alanya 65, Hiroshima 58: Alanya leads by 7 points.
Live music & performing arts. Alanya 15, Hiroshima 38: Hiroshima leads by 23 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Alanya 56, Hiroshima 50: Alanya leads by 6 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Alanya and Hiroshima.

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 nightlife with your weighting.

Hiroshima
56match

Wins on getting around 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
No recordsunshine a day
28 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Hiroshima in July

31 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
299 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
24 °Csea
14 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. Hiroshima: 1991-2020 normals, Hiroshima (1.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAlanyaHiroshima
Official languageTurkishJapanese
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Yen (JPY)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+3UTC+9
Emergency number112Police 110, fire 119
Elevation10 m3 m
Main airportGazipaşa-Alanya Airport (GZP)38 km from centre22 non-stop destinationsHiroshima Airport (HIJ)43 km from centre10 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureAlanyaHiroshima
City population364,1801,198,021
People per km²2281,324
Museums within 10 km218
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Swim season, months above 21 °C7 months4 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.