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The Red Tower and the harbour, Alanya
AlanyaThe Red Tower and the harbour
Waterfront houses on Harbor Island in Newport Harbor, Newport Beach
Newport BeachWaterfront houses on Harbor Island in Newport Harbor

Photos: Alanya by Atlantic Ambience, Pexels License; Newport Beach by Don Ramey Logan, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Alanya or Newport 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

  • prices
  • getting around
  • nightlife

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

Choose Newport Beach for

  • live music and the arts
  • shopping
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Newport 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 84, Newport Beach 70: Alanya leads by 14 points.
Food & drink. Alanya 43, Newport Beach 50: Newport Beach leads by 7 points.
Culture & sights. Alanya 44, Newport Beach 20: Alanya leads by 24 points.
Nightlife. Alanya 58, Newport Beach 33: Alanya leads by 25 points.
Nature & outdoors. Alanya 68, Newport Beach 66: Alanya leads by 2 points.
Day trips. Alanya 62, Newport Beach 70: Newport Beach leads by 8 points.
Good for families. Alanya 70, Newport Beach 80: Newport Beach leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Alanya 50, Newport Beach 20: Alanya leads by 30 points.
Shopping & style. Alanya 34, Newport Beach 62: Newport Beach leads by 28 points.
Affordability. Alanya 65, Newport Beach 15: Alanya leads by 50 points.
Live music & performing arts. Alanya 15, Newport Beach 46: Newport Beach leads by 31 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Alanya 56, Newport Beach 44: Alanya leads by 12 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Alanya and Newport Beach.

Your match

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

Alanya
Best match
54match

Wins on prices and getting around with your weighting.

Newport Beach
48match

Wins on live music and the arts and shopping 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

Newport Beach in July

26 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
20 °Csea
14 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. Newport Beach: 1991-2020 (rainfall 1981-2010) normals, Santa Ana / Paularino (7.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAlanyaNewport Beach
Official languageTurkish-
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation10 m3 m
Main airportGazipaşa-Alanya Airport (GZP)38 km from centre22 non-stop destinationsJohn Wayne Orange County International Airport (SNA)7 km from centre53 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureAlanyaNewport Beach
City population364,18085,239
People per km²228622
Museums within 10 km24
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C7 monthsNone

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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.