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The Red Tower and the harbour, Alanya
AlanyaThe Red Tower and the harbour
Swayambhunath with its prayer flags, Kathmandu
KathmanduSwayambhunath with its prayer flags

Photos: Alanya by Atlantic Ambience, Pexels License; Kathmandu by Nabin K. Sapkota, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Alanya or Kathmandu?

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
  • families
  • getting around

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

Choose Kathmandu for

  • culture and sights
  • prices
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Kathmandu’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, Kathmandu 4: Alanya leads by 80 points.
Food & drink. Alanya 43, Kathmandu 55: Kathmandu leads by 12 points.
Culture & sights. Alanya 44, Kathmandu 82: Kathmandu leads by 38 points.
Nightlife. Alanya 58, Kathmandu 36: Alanya leads by 22 points.
Nature & outdoors. Alanya 68, Kathmandu 70: Kathmandu leads by 2 points.
Day trips. Alanya 62, Kathmandu 56: Alanya leads by 6 points.
Good for families. Alanya 70, Kathmandu 20: Alanya leads by 50 points.
Getting around. Alanya 50, Kathmandu 25: Alanya leads by 25 points.
Shopping & style. Alanya 34, Kathmandu 55: Kathmandu leads by 21 points.
Affordability. Alanya 65, Kathmandu 97: Kathmandu leads by 32 points.
Live music & performing arts. Alanya 15, Kathmandu 28: Kathmandu leads by 13 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Alanya 56, Kathmandu 45: Alanya leads by 11 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Alanya and Kathmandu.

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 families with your weighting.

Kathmandu
48match

Wins on culture and sights and prices 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

Kathmandu in July

29 °Cdaytime high
20 °Cnight-time low
384 mmrain in the month
4 hsunshine a day
No seasea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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AlanyaKathmandu

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. Kathmandu: 1991-2020 normals, Kathmandu Airport (4.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAlanyaKathmandu
Official languageTurkishNepali
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Nepalese Rupee (NPR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCM230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+3UTC+5:45
Emergency number112Police 100, ambulance 102, fire 101
Elevation10 m1,300 m
Main airportGazipaşa-Alanya Airport (GZP)38 km from centre22 non-stop destinationsTribhuvan International Airport (KTM)4 km from centre38 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days-

By the numbers

MeasureAlanyaKathmandu
City population364,180845,767
People per km²22817,121
Museums within 10 km29
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
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.