VacationSelector
The Red Tower and the harbour, Alanya
AlanyaThe Red Tower and the harbour
The arch at the entrance to the boardwalk, Ocean City, Maryland
Ocean City, MarylandThe arch at the entrance to the boardwalk

Photos: Alanya by Atlantic Ambience, Pexels License; Ocean City, Maryland by Dough4872, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Alanya or Ocean City, Maryland?

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

  • wellness
  • culture and sights
  • prices

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

Choose Ocean City, Maryland for

  • families
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Ocean City, Maryland’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, Ocean City, Maryland 78: Alanya leads by 6 points.
Food & drink. Alanya 43, Ocean City, Maryland 40: Alanya leads by 3 points.
Culture & sights. Alanya 44, Ocean City, Maryland 14: Alanya leads by 30 points.
Nightlife. Alanya 58, Ocean City, Maryland 45: Alanya leads by 13 points.
Nature & outdoors. Alanya 68, Ocean City, Maryland 50: Alanya leads by 18 points.
Day trips. Alanya 62, Ocean City, Maryland 42: Alanya leads by 20 points.
Good for families. Alanya 70, Ocean City, Maryland 78: Ocean City, Maryland leads by 8 points.
Getting around. Alanya 50, Ocean City, Maryland 34: Alanya leads by 16 points.
Shopping & style. Alanya 34, Ocean City, Maryland 24: Alanya leads by 10 points.
Affordability. Alanya 65, Ocean City, Maryland 40: Alanya leads by 25 points.
Live music & performing arts. Alanya 15, Ocean City, Maryland 18: Ocean City, Maryland leads by 3 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Alanya 56, Ocean City, Maryland 22: Alanya leads by 34 points.
0255075100

What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Alanya and Ocean City, Maryland.

Your match

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

Alanya
Best match
54match

Wins on wellness and culture and sights with your weighting.

Ocean City, Maryland
40match

Wins on families and live music and the arts 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

Ocean City, Maryland in July

29 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
96 mmrain in the month
24 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

0°10°20°30°40°JFMAMJJASOND

Rainfall in the month, mm

050100150200250JFMAMJJASOND
AlanyaOcean City, Maryland

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.

Ocean City, Maryland 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. Ocean City, Maryland: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Ocean City / Morris Mobile Home Park (10.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAlanyaOcean City, Maryland
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 m2 m
Main airportGazipaşa-Alanya Airport (GZP)38 km from centre22 non-stop destinationsSalisbury Ocean City Wicomico Regional Airport (SBY)39 km from centre4 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureAlanyaOcean City, Maryland
City population364,1806,844
People per km²22873
Museums within 10 km20
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C7 months3 months

Where else could you go?

Every comparison below shares a destination with this one, so you can follow Alanya or Ocean City, Maryland somewhere new.

Browse every destination

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.