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The Red Tower and the harbour, Alanya
AlanyaThe Red Tower and the harbour
The white temple of Wat Kaew Korawaram in Krabi Town, Krabi
KrabiThe white temple of Wat Kaew Korawaram in Krabi Town

Photos: Alanya by Atlantic Ambience, Pexels License; Krabi by Maksym Kozlenko, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Alanya or Krabi?

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

  • nightlife
  • culture and sights
  • day trips

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

Choose Krabi for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • wellness
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Krabi’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, Krabi 87: Krabi leads by 3 points.
Food & drink. Alanya 43, Krabi 50: Krabi leads by 7 points.
Culture & sights. Alanya 44, Krabi 20: Alanya leads by 24 points.
Nightlife. Alanya 58, Krabi 33: Alanya leads by 25 points.
Nature & outdoors. Alanya 68, Krabi 85: Krabi leads by 17 points.
Day trips. Alanya 62, Krabi 40: Alanya leads by 22 points.
Good for families. Alanya 70, Krabi 55: Alanya leads by 15 points.
Getting around. Alanya 50, Krabi 30: Alanya leads by 20 points.
Shopping & style. Alanya 34, Krabi 20: Alanya leads by 14 points.
Affordability. Alanya 65, Krabi 78: Krabi leads by 13 points.
Live music & performing arts. Alanya 15, Krabi 12: Alanya leads by 3 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Alanya 56, Krabi 72: Krabi leads by 16 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Alanya and Krabi.

Your match

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

Alanya
Best match
54match

Wins on nightlife and culture and sights with your weighting.

Krabi
49match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and wellness 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

Krabi in July

32 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
212 mmrain in the month
30 °Csea
13 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.

Krabi's temperatures are measured 67 km from the centre, at Phuket Airport.

Krabi 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. Krabi: 1991-2020 normals, Phuket Airport (66.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAlanyaKrabi
Official languageTurkishThai
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Baht (THB)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzABCF220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+3UTC+7
Emergency number112Police 191, ambulance 1669, fire 199
Elevation10 m16 m
Main airportGazipaşa-Alanya Airport (GZP)38 km from centre22 non-stop destinationsKrabi International Airport (KBV)9 km from centre14 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days-

By the numbers

MeasureAlanyaKrabi
City population364,18030,499
People per km²228-
Museums within 10 km20
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.