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The Red Tower and the harbour, Alanya
AlanyaThe Red Tower and the harbour
The golden Dome of the Rock, Jerusalem
JerusalemThe golden Dome of the Rock

Photos: Alanya by Atlantic Ambience, Pexels License; Jerusalem by Yasir Gürbüz, Pexels License.

Alanya or Jerusalem?

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 Jerusalem for

  • culture and sights
  • live music and the arts
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on Jerusalem’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, Jerusalem 40: Alanya leads by 44 points.
Food & drink. Alanya 43, Jerusalem 66: Jerusalem leads by 23 points.
Culture & sights. Alanya 44, Jerusalem 92: Jerusalem leads by 48 points.
Nightlife. Alanya 58, Jerusalem 38: Alanya leads by 20 points.
Nature & outdoors. Alanya 68, Jerusalem 60: Alanya leads by 8 points.
Day trips. Alanya 62, Jerusalem 80: Jerusalem leads by 18 points.
Good for families. Alanya 70, Jerusalem 52: Alanya leads by 18 points.
Getting around. Alanya 50, Jerusalem 55: Jerusalem leads by 5 points.
Shopping & style. Alanya 34, Jerusalem 48: Jerusalem leads by 14 points.
Affordability. Alanya 65, Jerusalem 20: Alanya leads by 45 points.
Live music & performing arts. Alanya 15, Jerusalem 40: Jerusalem leads by 25 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Alanya 56, Jerusalem 42: Alanya leads by 14 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Alanya and Jerusalem.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Alanya
54match

Wins on prices and beaches with your weighting.

Jerusalem
53match

Wins on culture and sights and live music and the arts 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

Jerusalem in July

30 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
27 °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.

Jerusalem 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. Jerusalem: 1991-2020 normals, Jerusalem (1.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAlanyaJerusalem
Official languageTurkishHebrew
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)New Israeli Sheqel (ILS)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCHM230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112Police 100, fire 102
Elevation10 m754 m
Main airportGazipaşa-Alanya Airport (GZP)38 km from centre22 non-stop destinationsBen Gurion International Airport (TLV)42 km from centre111 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days-

By the numbers

MeasureAlanyaJerusalem
City population364,1801,050,151
People per km²2288,374
Museums within 10 km269
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km07
Swim season, months above 21 °C7 months7 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.