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The Red Tower and the harbour, Alanya
AlanyaThe Red Tower and the harbour
The steamboat Natchez on the Mississippi, New Orleans
New OrleansThe steamboat Natchez on the Mississippi

Photos: Alanya by Atlantic Ambience, Pexels License; New Orleans by Bernard Spragg, CC0.

Alanya or New Orleans?

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
  • wellness
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose New Orleans for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on New Orleans’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, New Orleans 14: Alanya leads by 70 points.
Food & drink. Alanya 43, New Orleans 84: New Orleans leads by 41 points.
Culture & sights. Alanya 44, New Orleans 67: New Orleans leads by 23 points.
Nightlife. Alanya 58, New Orleans 85: New Orleans leads by 27 points.
Nature & outdoors. Alanya 68, New Orleans 42: Alanya leads by 26 points.
Day trips. Alanya 62, New Orleans 52: Alanya leads by 10 points.
Good for families. Alanya 70, New Orleans 55: Alanya leads by 15 points.
Getting around. Alanya 50, New Orleans 55: New Orleans leads by 5 points.
Shopping & style. Alanya 34, New Orleans 54: New Orleans leads by 20 points.
Affordability. Alanya 65, New Orleans 40: Alanya leads by 25 points.
Live music & performing arts. Alanya 15, New Orleans 80: New Orleans leads by 65 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Alanya 56, New Orleans 25: Alanya leads by 31 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Alanya and New Orleans.

Your match

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

Too close to call, level with your weighting

Alanya
54match

Wins on beaches and wellness with your weighting.

New Orleans
54match

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
28 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

New Orleans in July

33 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
169 mmrain in the month
30 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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AlanyaNew Orleans

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. New Orleans: 1991-2020 normals, New Orleans Airport (2.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAlanyaNew Orleans
Official languageTurkish-
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC-6, UTC-5 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation10 m-2 m
Main airportGazipaşa-Alanya Airport (GZP)38 km from centre22 non-stop destinationsLouis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport (MSY)18 km from centre51 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureAlanyaNew Orleans
City population364,180383,997
People per km²228423
Museums within 10 km216
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C7 months7 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.