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The Red Tower and the harbour, Alanya
AlanyaThe Red Tower and the harbour
The Japanese Covered Bridge, Hoi An
Hoi AnThe Japanese Covered Bridge

Photos: Alanya by Atlantic Ambience, Pexels License; Hoi An by François Guerraz, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Alanya or Hoi An?

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

  • nightlife
  • beaches
  • day trips

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

Choose Hoi An for

  • food and drink
  • shopping
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Hoi An’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, Hoi An 72: Alanya leads by 12 points.
Food & drink. Alanya 43, Hoi An 68: Hoi An leads by 25 points.
Culture & sights. Alanya 44, Hoi An 66: Hoi An leads by 22 points.
Nightlife. Alanya 58, Hoi An 28: Alanya leads by 30 points.
Nature & outdoors. Alanya 68, Hoi An 63: Alanya leads by 5 points.
Day trips. Alanya 62, Hoi An 50: Alanya leads by 12 points.
Good for families. Alanya 70, Hoi An 58: Alanya leads by 12 points.
Getting around. Alanya 50, Hoi An 48: Alanya leads by 2 points.
Shopping & style. Alanya 34, Hoi An 57: Hoi An leads by 23 points.
Affordability. Alanya 65, Hoi An 88: Hoi An leads by 23 points.
Live music & performing arts. Alanya 15, Hoi An 24: Hoi An leads by 9 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Alanya 56, Hoi An 65: Hoi An leads by 9 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Alanya and Hoi An.

Your match

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

Alanya
54match

Wins on nightlife and beaches with your weighting.

Hoi An
Best match
57match

Wins on food and drink and shopping 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

Hoi An in July

35 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
83 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
29 °Csea
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.

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. Hoi An: 1991-2020 normals, Da Nang (23.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAlanyaHoi An
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 m13 m
Main airportGazipaşa-Alanya Airport (GZP)38 km from centre22 non-stop destinationsDa Nang International Airport (DAD)23 km from centre47 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days-

By the numbers

MeasureAlanyaHoi An
City population364,180121,716
People per km²228-
Museums within 10 km25
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Swim season, months above 21 °C7 months12 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.