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The Red Tower and the harbour, Alanya
AlanyaThe Red Tower and the harbour
La Major cathedral from the harbour, Marseille
MarseilleLa Major cathedral from the harbour

Photos: Alanya by Atlantic Ambience, Pexels License; Marseille by Charlotte Noblet, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Alanya or Marseille?

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

  • families
  • prices
  • wellness

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

Choose Marseille for

  • live music and the arts
  • food and drink
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Marseille’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, Marseille 72: Alanya leads by 12 points.
Food & drink. Alanya 43, Marseille 67: Marseille leads by 24 points.
Culture & sights. Alanya 44, Marseille 63: Marseille leads by 19 points.
Nightlife. Alanya 58, Marseille 57: Alanya leads by 1 points.
Nature & outdoors. Alanya 68, Marseille 83: Marseille leads by 15 points.
Day trips. Alanya 62, Marseille 86: Marseille leads by 24 points.
Good for families. Alanya 70, Marseille 50: Alanya leads by 20 points.
Getting around. Alanya 50, Marseille 57: Marseille leads by 7 points.
Shopping & style. Alanya 34, Marseille 47: Marseille leads by 13 points.
Affordability. Alanya 65, Marseille 45: Alanya leads by 20 points.
Live music & performing arts. Alanya 15, Marseille 56: Marseille leads by 41 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Alanya 56, Marseille 37: Alanya leads by 19 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Alanya and Marseille.

Your match

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

Alanya
54match

Wins on families and prices with your weighting.

Marseille
Best match
60match

Wins on live music and the arts and food and drink 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

Marseille in July

31 °Cdaytime high
20 °Cnight-time low
11 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
21 °Csea
15 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. Marseille: 1991-2020 normals, Marseille / Marignane (20.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAlanyaMarseille
Official languageTurkishFrench
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation10 m0 m
Main airportGazipaşa-Alanya Airport (GZP)38 km from centre22 non-stop destinationsMarseille Provence Airport (MRS)21 km from centre126 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureAlanyaMarseille
City population364,180886,040
People per km²2283,683
Museums within 10 km227
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C7 months2 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.