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The Red Tower and the harbour, Alanya
AlanyaThe Red Tower and the harbour
The Cloth Hall on the Main Square, Krakow
KrakowThe Cloth Hall on the Main Square

Photos: Alanya by Atlantic Ambience, Pexels License; Krakow by Jakub Hałun, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Alanya or Krakow?

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
  • wellness
  • families

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

Choose Krakow for

  • live music and the arts
  • culture and sights
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Krakow’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, Krakow 9: Alanya leads by 75 points.
Food & drink. Alanya 43, Krakow 55: Krakow leads by 12 points.
Culture & sights. Alanya 44, Krakow 77: Krakow leads by 33 points.
Nightlife. Alanya 58, Krakow 68: Krakow leads by 10 points.
Nature & outdoors. Alanya 68, Krakow 62: Alanya leads by 6 points.
Day trips. Alanya 62, Krakow 76: Krakow leads by 14 points.
Good for families. Alanya 70, Krakow 58: Alanya leads by 12 points.
Getting around. Alanya 50, Krakow 74: Krakow leads by 24 points.
Shopping & style. Alanya 34, Krakow 48: Krakow leads by 14 points.
Affordability. Alanya 65, Krakow 72: Krakow leads by 7 points.
Live music & performing arts. Alanya 15, Krakow 55: Krakow leads by 40 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Alanya 56, Krakow 36: Alanya leads by 20 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Alanya and Krakow.

Your match

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

Alanya
54match

Wins on beaches and wellness with your weighting.

Krakow
Best match
58match

Wins on live music and the arts and culture and sights 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

Krakow in July

25 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
100 mmrain in the month
No seasea
16 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.

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. Krakow: 1991-2020 normals, Krakow (10.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAlanyaKrakow
Official languageTurkishPolish
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Zloty (PLN)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCE50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation10 m219 m
Main airportGazipaşa-Alanya Airport (GZP)38 km from centre22 non-stop destinationsKraków John Paul II International Airport (KRK)11 km from centre132 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureAlanyaKrakow
City population364,180804,237
People per km²2282,459
Museums within 10 km2113
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km04
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.