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The Red Tower and the harbour, Alanya
AlanyaThe Red Tower and the harbour
Stari Most and the old town, Mostar
MostarStari Most and the old town

Photos: Alanya by Atlantic Ambience, Pexels License; Mostar by Alan Wang, Pexels License.

Alanya or Mostar?

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
  • families
  • wellness

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

Choose Mostar for

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Mostar’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, Mostar 24: Alanya leads by 60 points.
Food & drink. Alanya 43, Mostar 40: Alanya leads by 3 points.
Culture & sights. Alanya 44, Mostar 54: Mostar leads by 10 points.
Nightlife. Alanya 58, Mostar 25: Alanya leads by 33 points.
Nature & outdoors. Alanya 68, Mostar 64: Alanya leads by 4 points.
Day trips. Alanya 62, Mostar 60: Alanya leads by 2 points.
Good for families. Alanya 70, Mostar 34: Alanya leads by 36 points.
Getting around. Alanya 50, Mostar 44: Alanya leads by 6 points.
Shopping & style. Alanya 34, Mostar 32: Alanya leads by 2 points.
Affordability. Alanya 65, Mostar 78: Mostar leads by 13 points.
Live music & performing arts. Alanya 15, Mostar 16: Mostar leads by 1 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Alanya 56, Mostar 20: Alanya leads by 36 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Alanya and Mostar.

Your match

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

Alanya
Best match
54match

Wins on beaches and families with your weighting.

Mostar
41match

Wins on prices and culture and sights 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

Mostar in July

33 °Cdaytime high
20 °Cnight-time low
54 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
No seasea
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. Mostar: 1991-2020 normals, Mostar (0.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAlanyaMostar
Official languageTurkishCroatian, Serbian, Bosnian
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Convertible Mark (BAM)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation10 m60 m
Main airportGazipaşa-Alanya Airport (GZP)38 km from centre22 non-stop destinationsSarajevo International Airport (SJJ)68 km from centre38 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureAlanyaMostar
City population364,180105,448
People per km²22890
Museums within 10 km23
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
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.