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The Red Tower and the harbour, Alanya
AlanyaThe Red Tower and the harbour
The Istiqlal Mosque, Jakarta
JakartaThe Istiqlal Mosque

Photos: Alanya by Atlantic Ambience, Pexels License; Jakarta by Antonyus Bunjamin, Pexels License.

Alanya or Jakarta?

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
  • nature and the outdoors
  • families

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

Choose Jakarta for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Jakarta’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, Jakarta 28: Alanya leads by 56 points.
Food & drink. Alanya 43, Jakarta 78: Jakarta leads by 35 points.
Culture & sights. Alanya 44, Jakarta 48: Jakarta leads by 4 points.
Nightlife. Alanya 58, Jakarta 66: Jakarta leads by 8 points.
Nature & outdoors. Alanya 68, Jakarta 30: Alanya leads by 38 points.
Day trips. Alanya 62, Jakarta 45: Alanya leads by 17 points.
Good for families. Alanya 70, Jakarta 50: Alanya leads by 20 points.
Getting around. Alanya 50, Jakarta 36: Alanya leads by 14 points.
Shopping & style. Alanya 34, Jakarta 64: Jakarta leads by 30 points.
Affordability. Alanya 65, Jakarta 80: Jakarta leads by 15 points.
Live music & performing arts. Alanya 15, Jakarta 42: Jakarta leads by 27 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Alanya 56, Jakarta 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 Jakarta.

Your match

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

Alanya
Best match
54match

Wins on beaches and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Jakarta
51match

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

Jakarta in July

32 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
85 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
29 °Csea
12 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. Jakarta: 1991-2020 normals, Jakarta / Observatory (1.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAlanyaJakarta
Official languageTurkishIndonesian
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Rupiah (IDR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+3UTC+7
Emergency number112112
Elevation10 m91 m
Main airportGazipaşa-Alanya Airport (GZP)38 km from centre22 non-stop destinationsSoekarno-Hatta International Airport (CGK)20 km from centre89 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days-

By the numbers

MeasureAlanyaJakarta
City population364,18011,135,191
People per km²22816,821
Museums within 10 km244
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
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.