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The Red Tower and the harbour, Alanya
AlanyaThe Red Tower and the harbour
The beach and the bay with the mountains behind, Nuevo Vallarta
Nuevo VallartaThe beach and the bay with the mountains behind

Photos: Alanya by Atlantic Ambience, Pexels License; Nuevo Vallarta by Harpqueen, Public domain.

Alanya or Nuevo Vallarta?

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

  • nightlife
  • culture and sights
  • getting around

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

Choose Nuevo Vallarta for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • families
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Nuevo Vallarta’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 Nuevo Vallarta are level on 84.
Food & drink. Alanya 43, Nuevo Vallarta 40: Alanya leads by 3 points.
Culture & sights. Alanya 44, Nuevo Vallarta 6: Alanya leads by 38 points.
Nightlife. Alanya 58, Nuevo Vallarta 16: Alanya leads by 42 points.
Nature & outdoors. Alanya 68, Nuevo Vallarta 75: Nuevo Vallarta leads by 7 points.
Day trips. Alanya 62, Nuevo Vallarta 58: Alanya leads by 4 points.
Good for families. Alanya 70, Nuevo Vallarta 73: Nuevo Vallarta leads by 3 points.
Getting around. Alanya 50, Nuevo Vallarta 25: Alanya leads by 25 points.
Shopping & style. Alanya 34, Nuevo Vallarta 22: Alanya leads by 12 points.
Affordability. Alanya 65, Nuevo Vallarta 45: Alanya leads by 20 points.
Live music & performing arts. Alanya 15, Nuevo Vallarta 18: Nuevo Vallarta leads by 3 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Alanya 56, Nuevo Vallarta 55: Alanya leads by 1 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Alanya and Nuevo Vallarta.

Your match

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

Alanya
Best match
54match

Wins on nightlife and culture and sights with your weighting.

Nuevo Vallarta
43match

Wins on nature and the outdoors 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

Nuevo Vallarta in July

34 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
206 mmrain in the month
30 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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AlanyaNuevo Vallarta

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.

Nuevo Vallarta 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. Nuevo Vallarta: 1991-2020 normals, TerraClimate 4 km grid at the town, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureAlanyaNuevo Vallarta
Official languageTurkishSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC-6
Emergency number112911
Elevation10 m3 m
Main airportGazipaşa-Alanya Airport (GZP)38 km from centre22 non-stop destinationsPuerto Vallarta International Airport (PVR)4 km from centre52 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureAlanyaNuevo Vallarta
City population364,1801,301
People per km²228-
Museums within 10 km20
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
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. 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.