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The Red Tower and the harbour, Alanya
AlanyaThe Red Tower and the harbour
A boat in the swell beside El Arco, Los Cabos
Los CabosA boat in the swell beside El Arco

Photos: Alanya by Atlantic Ambience, Pexels License; Los Cabos by Jules Clark, Pexels License.

Alanya or Los Cabos?

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
  • culture and sights
  • getting around

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

Choose Los Cabos for

  • food and drink
  • nature and the outdoors
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Los Cabos’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 Los Cabos are level on 84.
Food & drink. Alanya 43, Los Cabos 54: Los Cabos leads by 11 points.
Culture & sights. Alanya 44, Los Cabos 20: Alanya leads by 24 points.
Nightlife. Alanya 58, Los Cabos 66: Los Cabos leads by 8 points.
Nature & outdoors. Alanya 68, Los Cabos 78: Los Cabos leads by 10 points.
Day trips. Alanya 62, Los Cabos 42: Alanya leads by 20 points.
Good for families. Alanya 70, Los Cabos 55: Alanya leads by 15 points.
Getting around. Alanya 50, Los Cabos 28: Alanya leads by 22 points.
Shopping & style. Alanya 34, Los Cabos 36: Los Cabos leads by 2 points.
Affordability. Alanya 65, Los Cabos 28: Alanya leads by 37 points.
Live music & performing arts. Alanya 15, Los Cabos 12: Alanya leads by 3 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Alanya 56, Los Cabos 58: Los Cabos leads by 2 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Alanya and Los Cabos.

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 culture and sights with your weighting.

Los Cabos
47match

Wins on food and drink and 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

Los Cabos in July

30 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
19 mmrain in the month
26 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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AlanyaLos Cabos

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.

Los Cabos 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 Cabos: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureAlanyaLos Cabos
Official languageTurkishSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC-7
Emergency number112911
Elevation10 m11 m
Main airportGazipaşa-Alanya Airport (GZP)38 km from centre22 non-stop destinationsLos Cabos International Airport (SJD)35 km from centre54 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureAlanyaLos Cabos
City population364,180202,694
People per km²228-
Museums within 10 km21
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. 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.