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The Red Tower and the harbour, Alanya
AlanyaThe Red Tower and the harbour
A bright beach on turquoise water at Montego Bay, Montego Bay
Montego BayA bright beach on turquoise water at Montego Bay

Photos: Alanya by Atlantic Ambience, Pexels License; Montego Bay by Dre Dawkcide, Pexels License.

Alanya or Montego Bay?

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

  • getting around
  • prices
  • families

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

Choose Montego Bay for

  • live music and the arts
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on Montego Bay’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 and Montego Bay are level on 84.
Food & drink. Alanya 43, Montego Bay 50: Montego Bay leads by 7 points.
Culture & sights. Alanya 44, Montego Bay 28: Alanya leads by 16 points.
Nightlife. Alanya 58, Montego Bay 42: Alanya leads by 16 points.
Nature & outdoors. Alanya 68, Montego Bay 65: Alanya leads by 3 points.
Day trips. Alanya 62, Montego Bay 50: Alanya leads by 12 points.
Good for families. Alanya 70, Montego Bay 48: Alanya leads by 22 points.
Getting around. Alanya 50, Montego Bay 20: Alanya leads by 30 points.
Shopping & style. Alanya 34, Montego Bay 25: Alanya leads by 9 points.
Affordability. Alanya 65, Montego Bay 38: Alanya leads by 27 points.
Live music & performing arts. Alanya 15, Montego Bay 32: Montego Bay leads by 17 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Alanya 56, Montego Bay 45: Alanya leads by 11 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Alanya and Montego Bay.

Your match

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

Alanya
Best match
54match

Wins on getting around and prices with your weighting.

Montego Bay
44match

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

Montego Bay in July

34 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
75 mmrain in the month
9 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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AlanyaMontego Bay

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. Montego Bay: 1991-2020 normals, Montego Bay / Sangster (3.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAlanyaMontego Bay
Official languageTurkishEnglish, Jamaican Patois
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Jamaican Dollar (JMD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB116 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+3UTC-5
Emergency number112Police 110/112/119/911, ambulance 110, fire 110
Elevation10 m19 m
Main airportGazipaşa-Alanya Airport (GZP)38 km from centre22 non-stop destinationsSangster International Airport (MBJ)4 km from centre48 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureAlanyaMontego Bay
City population364,180123,994
People per km²228-
Museums within 10 km20
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.