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The Red Tower and the harbour, Alanya
AlanyaThe Red Tower and the harbour
Main Beach with its palms and lifeguard tower, Laguna Beach
Laguna BeachMain Beach with its palms and lifeguard tower

Photos: Alanya by Atlantic Ambience, Pexels License; Laguna Beach by Mark Stebnicki, Pexels License.

Alanya or Laguna Beach?

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

  • prices
  • nightlife
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Laguna Beach for

  • live music and the arts
  • shopping
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Laguna Beach’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, Laguna Beach 72: Alanya leads by 12 points.
Food & drink. Alanya 43, Laguna Beach 40: Alanya leads by 3 points.
Culture & sights. Alanya 44, Laguna Beach 27: Alanya leads by 17 points.
Nightlife. Alanya 58, Laguna Beach 18: Alanya leads by 40 points.
Nature & outdoors. Alanya 68, Laguna Beach 73: Laguna Beach leads by 5 points.
Day trips. Alanya 62, Laguna Beach 72: Laguna Beach leads by 10 points.
Good for families. Alanya 70, Laguna Beach 68: Alanya leads by 2 points.
Getting around. Alanya 50, Laguna Beach 33: Alanya leads by 17 points.
Shopping & style. Alanya 34, Laguna Beach 46: Laguna Beach leads by 12 points.
Affordability. Alanya 65, Laguna Beach 12: Alanya leads by 53 points.
Live music & performing arts. Alanya 15, Laguna Beach 40: Laguna Beach leads by 25 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Alanya 56, Laguna Beach 47: Alanya leads by 9 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Alanya and Laguna Beach.

Your match

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

Alanya
Best match
54match

Wins on prices and nightlife with your weighting.

Laguna Beach
46match

Wins on live music and the arts and shopping 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

Laguna Beach in July

28 °Cdaytime high
17 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
20 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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AlanyaLaguna Beach

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. Laguna Beach: 1981-2010 normals, Irvine (15.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAlanyaLaguna Beach
Official languageTurkish-
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation10 m6 m
Main airportGazipaşa-Alanya Airport (GZP)38 km from centre22 non-stop destinationsJohn Wayne Orange County International Airport (SNA)18 km from centre53 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureAlanyaLaguna Beach
City population364,18023,032
People per km²228907
Museums within 10 km22
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C7 monthsNone

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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.