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The Red Tower and the harbour, Alanya
AlanyaThe Red Tower and the harbour
The pagoda at Kiyomizu-dera, Kyoto
KyotoThe pagoda at Kiyomizu-dera

Photos: Alanya by Atlantic Ambience, Pexels License; Kyoto by Bert Mulder, Pexels License.

Alanya or Kyoto?

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
  • nightlife
  • prices

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

Choose Kyoto for

  • culture and sights
  • live music and the arts
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on Kyoto’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, Kyoto 15: Alanya leads by 69 points.
Food & drink. Alanya 43, Kyoto 85: Kyoto leads by 42 points.
Culture & sights. Alanya 44, Kyoto 96: Kyoto leads by 52 points.
Nightlife. Alanya 58, Kyoto 35: Alanya leads by 23 points.
Nature & outdoors. Alanya 68, Kyoto 70: Kyoto leads by 2 points.
Day trips. Alanya 62, Kyoto 96: Kyoto leads by 34 points.
Good for families. Alanya 70, Kyoto 68: Alanya leads by 2 points.
Getting around. Alanya 50, Kyoto 72: Kyoto leads by 22 points.
Shopping & style. Alanya 34, Kyoto 72: Kyoto leads by 38 points.
Affordability. Alanya 65, Kyoto 50: Alanya leads by 15 points.
Live music & performing arts. Alanya 15, Kyoto 60: Kyoto leads by 45 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Alanya 56, Kyoto 70: Kyoto leads by 14 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Alanya and Kyoto.

Your match

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

Alanya
54match

Wins on beaches and nightlife with your weighting.

Kyoto
Best match
66match

Wins on culture and sights 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
No recordsunshine a day
28 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Kyoto in July

31 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
225 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
25 °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.

Kyoto's sunshine is measured 43 km from the centre, at Osaka.

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. Kyoto: 1971-2000 (sunshine 1991-2020) normals, Kyoto (3.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAlanyaKyoto
Official languageTurkishJapanese
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Yen (JPY)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+3UTC+9
Emergency number112Police 110, fire 119
Elevation10 m51 m
Main airportGazipaşa-Alanya Airport (GZP)38 km from centre22 non-stop destinationsKansai International Airport (KIX)81 km from centre62 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureAlanyaKyoto
City population364,1801,463,723
People per km²2281,768
Museums within 10 km277
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km04
Swim season, months above 21 °C7 months5 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.