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The Red Tower and the harbour, Alanya
AlanyaThe Red Tower and the harbour
The church of San Estanislao at Altos de Chavón, La Romana
La RomanaThe church of San Estanislao at Altos de Chavón

Photos: Alanya by Atlantic Ambience, Pexels License; La Romana by Edgar El, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

Alanya or La Romana?

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
  • getting around
  • culture and sights

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

Choose La Romana for

  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on La Romana’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 and La Romana are level on 84.
Food & drink. Alanya 43, La Romana 38: Alanya leads by 5 points.
Culture & sights. Alanya 44, La Romana 24: Alanya leads by 20 points.
Nightlife. Alanya 58, La Romana 30: Alanya leads by 28 points.
Nature & outdoors. Alanya 68, La Romana 62: Alanya leads by 6 points.
Day trips. Alanya 62, La Romana 52: Alanya leads by 10 points.
Good for families. Alanya 70, La Romana 56: Alanya leads by 14 points.
Getting around. Alanya 50, La Romana 24: Alanya leads by 26 points.
Shopping & style. Alanya 34, La Romana 28: Alanya leads by 6 points.
Affordability. Alanya 65, La Romana 50: Alanya leads by 15 points.
Live music & performing arts. Alanya 15, La Romana 17: La Romana leads by 2 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Alanya 56, La Romana 44: Alanya leads by 12 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Alanya and La Romana.

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 getting around with your weighting.

La Romana
42match

Wins on 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

La Romana in July

32 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
87 mmrain in the month
28 °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.

La Romana's temperatures are measured 65 km from the centre, at Punta Cana.

La Romana 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. La Romana: 1993-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Punta Cana (65.4 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAlanyaLa Romana
Official languageTurkishSpanish
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Dominican Peso (DOP)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB110 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC-4
Emergency number112911
Elevation10 m10 m
Main airportGazipaşa-Alanya Airport (GZP)38 km from centre22 non-stop destinationsCasa De Campo International Airport (LRM)7 km from centre13 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureAlanyaLa Romana
City population364,180139,238
People per km²228512
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.