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The Red Tower and the harbour, Alanya
AlanyaThe Red Tower and the harbour
Painted wooden houses under palms in Key West, Key West
Key WestPainted wooden houses under palms in Key West

Photos: Alanya by Atlantic Ambience, Pexels License; Key West by Dominik Gryzbon, Pexels License.

Alanya or Key West?

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
  • day trips
  • families

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

Choose Key West for

  • live music and the arts
  • getting around
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Key West’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, Key West 60: Alanya leads by 24 points.
Food & drink. Alanya 43, Key West 45: Key West leads by 2 points.
Culture & sights. Alanya 44, Key West 40: Alanya leads by 4 points.
Nightlife. Alanya 58, Key West 62: Key West leads by 4 points.
Nature & outdoors. Alanya 68, Key West 62: Alanya leads by 6 points.
Day trips. Alanya 62, Key West 28: Alanya leads by 34 points.
Good for families. Alanya 70, Key West 40: Alanya leads by 30 points.
Getting around. Alanya 50, Key West 62: Key West leads by 12 points.
Shopping & style. Alanya 34, Key West 30: Alanya leads by 4 points.
Affordability. Alanya 65, Key West 15: Alanya leads by 50 points.
Live music & performing arts. Alanya 15, Key West 38: Key West leads by 23 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Alanya 56, Key West 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 Key West.

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 day trips with your weighting.

Key West
44match

Wins on live music and the arts and getting around 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

Key West in July

32 °Cdaytime high
27 °Cnight-time low
84 mmrain in the month
30 °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.

Key West's temperatures are measured 69 km from the centre, at Key West Airport.

Key West 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. Key West: 1991-2020 normals, Key West Airport (69.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAlanyaKey West
Official languageTurkish-
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation10 m4 m
Main airportGazipaşa-Alanya Airport (GZP)38 km from centre22 non-stop destinationsKey West International Airport (EYW)2 km from centre24 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureAlanyaKey West
City population364,18026,444
People per km²2281,407
Museums within 10 km27
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.