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The Red Tower and the harbour, Alanya
AlanyaThe Red Tower and the harbour
The Aare at Unterseen, Interlaken, Interlaken
InterlakenThe Aare at Unterseen, Interlaken

Photos: Alanya by Atlantic Ambience, Pexels License; Interlaken by Roy Egloff, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Alanya or Interlaken?

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

  • prices
  • beaches
  • nightlife

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

Choose Interlaken for

  • getting around
  • nature and the outdoors
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Interlaken’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, Interlaken 30: Alanya leads by 54 points.
Food & drink. Alanya 43, Interlaken 25: Alanya leads by 18 points.
Culture & sights. Alanya 44, Interlaken 8: Alanya leads by 36 points.
Nightlife. Alanya 58, Interlaken 15: Alanya leads by 43 points.
Nature & outdoors. Alanya 68, Interlaken 97: Interlaken leads by 29 points.
Day trips. Alanya 62, Interlaken 78: Interlaken leads by 16 points.
Good for families. Alanya 70, Interlaken 72: Interlaken leads by 2 points.
Getting around. Alanya 50, Interlaken 80: Interlaken leads by 30 points.
Shopping & style. Alanya 34, Interlaken 22: Alanya leads by 12 points.
Affordability. Alanya 65, Interlaken 8: Alanya leads by 57 points.
Live music & performing arts. Alanya and Interlaken are level on 15.
Wellness & relaxation. Alanya 56, Interlaken 40: Alanya leads by 16 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Alanya and Interlaken.

Your match

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

Alanya
Best match
54match

Wins on prices and beaches with your weighting.

Interlaken
41match

Wins on getting around and nature and the outdoors 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

Interlaken in July

24 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
126 mmrain in the month
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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AlanyaInterlaken

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.

Interlaken 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.

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. Interlaken: 2005-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Meiringen / Unterbach (19.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAlanyaInterlaken
Official languageTurkishFrench, German, Italian, Romansh
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Swiss Franc (CHF)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCJ230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation10 m571 m
Main airportGazipaşa-Alanya Airport (GZP)38 km from centre22 non-stop destinationsZürich Airport (ZRH)100 km from centre226 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureAlanyaInterlaken
City population364,1806,123
People per km²2281,424
Museums within 10 km23
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. 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.