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The Red Tower and the harbour, Alanya
AlanyaThe Red Tower and the harbour
The Metropolitan Cathedral on the Zócalo, Mexico City
Mexico CityThe Metropolitan Cathedral on the Zócalo

Photos: Alanya by Atlantic Ambience, Pexels License; Mexico City by Oscar Dominguez, Pexels License.

Alanya or Mexico City?

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
  • nature and the outdoors
  • wellness

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

Choose Mexico City for

  • live music and the arts
  • food and drink
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on Mexico City’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, Mexico City 5: Alanya leads by 79 points.
Food & drink. Alanya 43, Mexico City 90: Mexico City leads by 47 points.
Culture & sights. Alanya 44, Mexico City 88: Mexico City leads by 44 points.
Nightlife. Alanya 58, Mexico City 80: Mexico City leads by 22 points.
Nature & outdoors. Alanya 68, Mexico City 50: Alanya leads by 18 points.
Day trips. Alanya 62, Mexico City 75: Mexico City leads by 13 points.
Good for families. Alanya 70, Mexico City 58: Alanya leads by 12 points.
Getting around. Alanya and Mexico City are level on 50.
Shopping & style. Alanya 34, Mexico City 76: Mexico City leads by 42 points.
Affordability. Alanya 65, Mexico City 75: Mexico City leads by 10 points.
Live music & performing arts. Alanya 15, Mexico City 72: Mexico City leads by 57 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Alanya 56, Mexico City 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 Mexico City.

Your match

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

Alanya
54match

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

Mexico City
Best match
63match

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

Mexico City in July

25 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
176 mmrain in the month
6 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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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. Mexico City: 1991-2020 normals, Mexico Central, D. F. (7.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAlanyaMexico City
Official languageTurkishSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC-6
Emergency number112911
Elevation10 m2,240 m
Main airportGazipaşa-Alanya Airport (GZP)38 km from centre22 non-stop destinationsMexico City Benito Juárez International Airport (MEX)7 km from centre109 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureAlanyaMexico City
City population364,1809,209,944
People per km²2286,202
Museums within 10 km2108
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km06
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.