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The Red Tower and the harbour, Alanya
AlanyaThe Red Tower and the harbour
Wat Xieng Thong temple, Luang Prabang
Luang PrabangWat Xieng Thong temple

Photos: Alanya by Atlantic Ambience, Pexels License; Luang Prabang by Basile Morin, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Alanya or Luang Prabang?

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
  • nightlife
  • families

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

Choose Luang Prabang for

  • culture and sights
  • prices
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Luang Prabang’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, Luang Prabang 14: Alanya leads by 70 points.
Food & drink. Alanya 43, Luang Prabang 42: Alanya leads by 1 points.
Culture & sights. Alanya 44, Luang Prabang 65: Luang Prabang leads by 21 points.
Nightlife. Alanya 58, Luang Prabang 8: Alanya leads by 50 points.
Nature & outdoors. Alanya and Luang Prabang are level on 68.
Day trips. Alanya 62, Luang Prabang 35: Alanya leads by 27 points.
Good for families. Alanya 70, Luang Prabang 38: Alanya leads by 32 points.
Getting around. Alanya and Luang Prabang are level on 50.
Shopping & style. Alanya 34, Luang Prabang 38: Luang Prabang leads by 4 points.
Affordability. Alanya 65, Luang Prabang 80: Luang Prabang leads by 15 points.
Live music & performing arts. Alanya 15, Luang Prabang 18: Luang Prabang leads by 3 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Alanya 56, Luang Prabang 60: Luang Prabang leads by 4 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Alanya and Luang Prabang.

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 nightlife with your weighting.

Luang Prabang
43match

Wins on culture and sights and prices 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

Luang Prabang in July

33 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
250 mmrain in the month
4 hsunshine a day
No seasea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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AlanyaLuang Prabang

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. Luang Prabang: 1991-2020 normals, Luang-Prabang (0.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAlanyaLuang Prabang
Official languageTurkishLao
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Lao Kip (LAK)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzABCEF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC+7
Emergency number112Police 191, ambulance 195, fire 190
Elevation10 m305 m
Main airportGazipaşa-Alanya Airport (GZP)38 km from centre22 non-stop destinationsLuang Phabang International Airport (LPQ)4 km from centre7 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days-

By the numbers

MeasureAlanyaLuang Prabang
City population364,18053,792
People per km²228-
Museums within 10 km20
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
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.