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The Red Tower and the harbour, Alanya
AlanyaThe Red Tower and the harbour
The Grand Lisboa above the Macau skyline, Macau
MacauThe Grand Lisboa above the Macau skyline

Photos: Alanya by Atlantic Ambience, Pexels License; Macau by tian Jin, Pexels License.

Alanya or Macau?

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

  • nature and the outdoors
  • beaches
  • families

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

Choose Macau for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Macau’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, Macau 24: Alanya leads by 60 points.
Food & drink. Alanya 43, Macau 77: Macau leads by 34 points.
Culture & sights. Alanya 44, Macau 62: Macau leads by 18 points.
Nightlife. Alanya 58, Macau 40: Alanya leads by 18 points.
Nature & outdoors. Alanya 68, Macau 5: Alanya leads by 63 points.
Day trips. Alanya 62, Macau 52: Alanya leads by 10 points.
Good for families. Alanya 70, Macau 48: Alanya leads by 22 points.
Getting around. Alanya 50, Macau 60: Macau leads by 10 points.
Shopping & style. Alanya 34, Macau 58: Macau leads by 24 points.
Affordability. Alanya 65, Macau 44: Alanya leads by 21 points.
Live music & performing arts. Alanya 15, Macau 36: Macau leads by 21 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Alanya 56, Macau 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 Macau.

Your match

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

Alanya
Best match
54match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and beaches with your weighting.

Macau
46match

Wins on food and drink 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

Macau in July

32 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
281 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
29 °Csea
13 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. Macau: 1991-2020 normals, Taipa (3.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAlanyaMacau
Official languageTurkishPortuguese, Cantonese, Standard Chinese
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Pataca (MOP)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzFGM220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+3UTC+8
Emergency number112999
Elevation10 m22 m
Main airportGazipaşa-Alanya Airport (GZP)38 km from centre22 non-stop destinationsMacau International Airport (MFM)7 km from centre41 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days-

By the numbers

MeasureAlanyaMacau
City population364,180682,100
People per km²2285,916
Museums within 10 km228
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C7 months8 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.