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The Red Tower and the harbour, Alanya
AlanyaThe Red Tower and the harbour
Colourful houses in the old town, Mazatlan
MazatlanColourful houses in the old town

Photos: Alanya by Atlantic Ambience, Pexels License; Mazatlan by Gzzz, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Alanya or Mazatlan?

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

  • wellness
  • day trips
  • families

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

Choose Mazatlan for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Mazatlan’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, Mazatlan 80: Alanya leads by 4 points.
Food & drink. Alanya 43, Mazatlan 62: Mazatlan leads by 19 points.
Culture & sights. Alanya 44, Mazatlan 42: Alanya leads by 2 points.
Nightlife. Alanya 58, Mazatlan 55: Alanya leads by 3 points.
Nature & outdoors. Alanya 68, Mazatlan 66: Alanya leads by 2 points.
Day trips. Alanya 62, Mazatlan 45: Alanya leads by 17 points.
Good for families. Alanya 70, Mazatlan 60: Alanya leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Alanya 50, Mazatlan 42: Alanya leads by 8 points.
Shopping & style. Alanya 34, Mazatlan 30: Alanya leads by 4 points.
Affordability. Alanya 65, Mazatlan 70: Mazatlan leads by 5 points.
Live music & performing arts. Alanya 15, Mazatlan 40: Mazatlan leads by 25 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Alanya 56, Mazatlan 35: Alanya leads by 21 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Alanya and Mazatlan.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Alanya
54match

Wins on wellness and day trips with your weighting.

Mazatlan
52match

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

Mazatlan in July

34 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
153 mmrain in the month
8 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. Mazatlan: 1991-2020 normals, Colonia Juan Carras-Co Mazatlan, Sin. (2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAlanyaMazatlan
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 m139 m
Main airportGazipaşa-Alanya Airport (GZP)38 km from centre22 non-stop destinationsGeneral Rafael Buelna International Airport (MZT)16 km from centre23 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureAlanyaMazatlan
City population364,180441,975
People per km²228-
Museums within 10 km23
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. 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.