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The Red Tower and the harbour, Alanya
AlanyaThe Red Tower and the harbour
Big Ben and Westminster Bridge, London
LondonBig Ben and Westminster Bridge

Photos: Alanya by Atlantic Ambience, Pexels License; London by AXP Photography, Pexels License.

Alanya or London?

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
  • wellness

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

Choose London for

  • live music and the arts
  • shopping
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on London’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, London 25: Alanya leads by 59 points.
Food & drink. Alanya 43, London 84: London leads by 41 points.
Culture & sights. Alanya 44, London 94: London leads by 50 points.
Nightlife. Alanya 58, London 88: London leads by 30 points.
Nature & outdoors. Alanya 68, London 57: Alanya leads by 11 points.
Day trips. Alanya 62, London 90: London leads by 28 points.
Good for families. Alanya 70, London 82: London leads by 12 points.
Getting around. Alanya 50, London 85: London leads by 35 points.
Shopping & style. Alanya 34, London 95: London leads by 61 points.
Affordability. Alanya 65, London 15: Alanya leads by 50 points.
Live music & performing arts. Alanya 15, London 98: London leads by 83 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Alanya 56, London 40: Alanya leads by 16 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Alanya and London.

Your match

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

Alanya
54match

Wins on beaches and prices with your weighting.

London
Best match
71match

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
No recordsunshine a day
28 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

London in July

23 °Cdaytime high
15 °Cnight-time low
46 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
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. London: 1992-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, London Weather Centre (1.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAlanyaLondon
Official languageTurkishEnglish
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+3UTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112112 or 999
Elevation10 m4 m
Main airportGazipaşa-Alanya Airport (GZP)38 km from centre22 non-stop destinationsLondon Heathrow Airport (LHR)23 km from centre224 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureAlanyaLondon
City population364,1808,799,728
People per km²2285,598
Museums within 10 km2216
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.