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The Red Tower and the harbour, Alanya
AlanyaThe Red Tower and the harbour
The SkyWheel by the beach, Myrtle Beach
Myrtle BeachThe SkyWheel by the beach

Photos: Alanya by Atlantic Ambience, Pexels License; Myrtle Beach by The ed17, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Alanya or Myrtle Beach?

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
  • wellness
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Myrtle Beach for

  • live music and the arts
  • families
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Myrtle Beach’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 Myrtle Beach are level on 84.
Food & drink. Alanya 43, Myrtle Beach 38: Alanya leads by 5 points.
Culture & sights. Alanya 44, Myrtle Beach 20: Alanya leads by 24 points.
Nightlife. Alanya 58, Myrtle Beach 42: Alanya leads by 16 points.
Nature & outdoors. Alanya 68, Myrtle Beach 46: Alanya leads by 22 points.
Day trips. Alanya 62, Myrtle Beach 50: Alanya leads by 12 points.
Good for families. Alanya 70, Myrtle Beach 80: Myrtle Beach leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Alanya 50, Myrtle Beach 18: Alanya leads by 32 points.
Shopping & style. Alanya 34, Myrtle Beach 38: Myrtle Beach leads by 4 points.
Affordability. Alanya 65, Myrtle Beach 52: Alanya leads by 13 points.
Live music & performing arts. Alanya 15, Myrtle Beach 30: Myrtle Beach leads by 15 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Alanya 56, Myrtle Beach 28: Alanya leads by 28 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Alanya and Myrtle Beach.

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 wellness with your weighting.

Myrtle Beach
44match

Wins on live music and the arts and families 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
28 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Myrtle Beach in July

31 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
172 mmrain in the month
28 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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AlanyaMyrtle Beach

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.

Myrtle Beach has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

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. Myrtle Beach: 1971-2000 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Myrtle Beach Air Force Base (5.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAlanyaMyrtle Beach
Official languageTurkish-
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation10 m8 m
Main airportGazipaşa-Alanya Airport (GZP)38 km from centre22 non-stop destinationsMyrtle Beach International Airport (MYR)5 km from centre60 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureAlanyaMyrtle Beach
City population364,18035,682
People per km²228591
Museums within 10 km22
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C7 months6 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.