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The Red Tower and the harbour, Alanya
AlanyaThe Red Tower and the harbour
The Outback, with the Tenmile Range in the distance, Keystone
KeystoneThe Outback, with the Tenmile Range in the distance

Photos: Alanya by Atlantic Ambience, Pexels License; Keystone by Rudi Riet, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Alanya or Keystone?

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
  • prices
  • nightlife

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

Choose Keystone for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Keystone’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, Keystone 5: Alanya leads by 79 points.
Food & drink. Alanya 43, Keystone 27: Alanya leads by 16 points.
Culture & sights. Alanya 44, Keystone 7: Alanya leads by 37 points.
Nightlife. Alanya 58, Keystone 12: Alanya leads by 46 points.
Nature & outdoors. Alanya 68, Keystone 93: Keystone leads by 25 points.
Day trips. Alanya 62, Keystone 55: Alanya leads by 7 points.
Good for families. Alanya 70, Keystone 66: Alanya leads by 4 points.
Getting around. Alanya and Keystone are level on 50.
Shopping & style. Alanya 34, Keystone 22: Alanya leads by 12 points.
Affordability. Alanya 65, Keystone 12: Alanya leads by 53 points.
Live music & performing arts. Alanya 15, Keystone 22: Keystone leads by 7 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Alanya 56, Keystone 32: Alanya leads by 24 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Alanya and Keystone.

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 prices with your weighting.

Keystone
34match

Wins on nature and the outdoors 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

Keystone in July

21 °Cdaytime high
5 °Cnight-time low
39 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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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.

Keystone's temperatures are measured 51 km from the centre, at Leadville / Stringtown.

Keystone's station stands 232 m above the city centre, so the centre is likely a little warmer than the figures say.

Keystone 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. Keystone: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Leadville / Stringtown (50.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAlanyaKeystone
Official languageTurkish-
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC-7, UTC-6 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation10 m2,796 m
Main airportGazipaşa-Alanya Airport (GZP)38 km from centre22 non-stop destinationsDenver International Airport (DEN)116 km from centre231 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureAlanyaKeystone
City population364,1801,369
People per km²22813
Museums within 10 km20
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
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.