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The Red Tower and the harbour, Alanya
AlanyaThe Red Tower and the harbour
A canoe on the turquoise lake below the mountains, Lake Louise
Lake LouiseA canoe on the turquoise lake below the mountains

Photos: Alanya by Atlantic Ambience, Pexels License; Lake Louise by Andrew Patrick Photo, Pexels License.

Alanya or Lake Louise?

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
  • prices
  • nightlife

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

Choose Lake Louise for

  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Lake Louise’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, Lake Louise 5: Alanya leads by 79 points.
Food & drink. Alanya 43, Lake Louise 20: Alanya leads by 23 points.
Culture & sights. Alanya 44, Lake Louise 7: Alanya leads by 37 points.
Nightlife. Alanya 58, Lake Louise 4: Alanya leads by 54 points.
Nature & outdoors. Alanya 68, Lake Louise 97: Lake Louise leads by 29 points.
Day trips. Alanya 62, Lake Louise 33: Alanya leads by 29 points.
Good for families. Alanya 70, Lake Louise 40: Alanya leads by 30 points.
Getting around. Alanya 50, Lake Louise 28: Alanya leads by 22 points.
Shopping & style. Alanya 34, Lake Louise 6: Alanya leads by 28 points.
Affordability. Alanya 65, Lake Louise 9: Alanya leads by 56 points.
Live music & performing arts. Alanya 15, Lake Louise 3: Alanya leads by 12 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Alanya 56, Lake Louise 42: Alanya leads by 14 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Alanya and Lake Louise.

Your match

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

Alanya
Best match
54match

Wins on beaches and prices with your weighting.

Lake Louise
25match

Wins on nature and the outdoors 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

Lake Louise in July

20 °Cdaytime high
6 °Cnight-time low
63 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.

Lake Louise 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. Lake Louise: 1991-2020 normals, Yoho Park (11.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAlanyaLake Louise
Official languageTurkishFrench, English
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC-7, UTC-6 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation10 m1,600 m
Main airportGazipaşa-Alanya Airport (GZP)38 km from centre22 non-stop destinationsCalgary International Airport (YYC)155 km from centre102 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureAlanyaLake Louise
City population364,180-
People per km²228-
Museums within 10 km20
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
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.