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The Red Tower and the harbour, Alanya
AlanyaThe Red Tower and the harbour
A palm-lined Hollywood street with the Hollywood Sign behind, Los Angeles
Los AngelesA palm-lined Hollywood street with the Hollywood Sign behind

Photos: Alanya by Atlantic Ambience, Pexels License; Los Angeles by BenSherman, Public domain.

Alanya or Los Angeles?

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
  • getting around
  • beaches

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

Choose Los Angeles for

  • live music and the arts
  • shopping
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on Los Angeles’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, Los Angeles 60: Alanya leads by 24 points.
Food & drink. Alanya 43, Los Angeles 84: Los Angeles leads by 41 points.
Culture & sights. Alanya 44, Los Angeles 66: Los Angeles leads by 22 points.
Nightlife. Alanya 58, Los Angeles 67: Los Angeles leads by 9 points.
Nature & outdoors. Alanya 68, Los Angeles 80: Los Angeles leads by 12 points.
Day trips. Alanya 62, Los Angeles 60: Alanya leads by 2 points.
Good for families. Alanya 70, Los Angeles 84: Los Angeles leads by 14 points.
Getting around. Alanya 50, Los Angeles 25: Alanya leads by 25 points.
Shopping & style. Alanya 34, Los Angeles 80: Los Angeles leads by 46 points.
Affordability. Alanya 65, Los Angeles 24: Alanya leads by 41 points.
Live music & performing arts. Alanya 15, Los Angeles 83: Los Angeles leads by 68 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Alanya 56, Los Angeles 60: Los Angeles leads by 4 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Alanya and Los Angeles.

Your match

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

Alanya
54match

Wins on prices and getting around with your weighting.

Los Angeles
Best match
64match

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

Los Angeles in July

24 °Cdaytime high
18 °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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AlanyaLos Angeles

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. Los Angeles: 1991-2020 normals, Los Angeles Airport (18.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAlanyaLos Angeles
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 m106 m
Main airportGazipaşa-Alanya Airport (GZP)38 km from centre22 non-stop destinationsLos Angeles International Airport (LAX)19 km from centre177 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureAlanyaLos Angeles
City population364,1803,898,747
People per km²2282,994
Museums within 10 km239
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
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.