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The Red Tower and the harbour, Alanya
AlanyaThe Red Tower and the harbour
The white beach below the high-rise hotels, Orange Beach
Orange BeachThe white beach below the high-rise hotels

Photos: Alanya by Atlantic Ambience, Pexels License; Orange Beach by WeaponizingArchitecture, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Alanya or Orange 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

  • culture and sights
  • getting around
  • nightlife

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

Choose Orange Beach for

  • live music and the arts
  • families
  • beaches

What lies behind each score is written up on Orange 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, Orange Beach 86: Orange Beach leads by 2 points.
Food & drink. Alanya 43, Orange Beach 40: Alanya leads by 3 points.
Culture & sights. Alanya 44, Orange Beach 7: Alanya leads by 37 points.
Nightlife. Alanya 58, Orange Beach 30: Alanya leads by 28 points.
Nature & outdoors. Alanya 68, Orange Beach 60: Alanya leads by 8 points.
Day trips. Alanya 62, Orange Beach 50: Alanya leads by 12 points.
Good for families. Alanya 70, Orange Beach 75: Orange Beach leads by 5 points.
Getting around. Alanya 50, Orange Beach 15: Alanya leads by 35 points.
Shopping & style. Alanya 34, Orange Beach 25: Alanya leads by 9 points.
Affordability. Alanya 65, Orange Beach 38: Alanya leads by 27 points.
Live music & performing arts. Alanya 15, Orange Beach 32: Orange Beach leads by 17 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Alanya 56, Orange Beach 32: Alanya leads by 24 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Alanya and Orange Beach.

Your match

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

Alanya
Best match
54match

Wins on culture and sights and getting around with your weighting.

Orange Beach
41match

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

Orange Beach in July

32 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
200 mmrain in the month
29 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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AlanyaOrange 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.

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. Orange Beach: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Gulf Shores / Bay Village Mobile Home Park (10.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAlanyaOrange Beach
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 m4 m
Main airportGazipaşa-Alanya Airport (GZP)38 km from centre22 non-stop destinationsPensacola International Airport (PNS)41 km from centre27 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureAlanyaOrange Beach
City population364,1808,095
People per km²228196
Museums within 10 km20
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C7 months8 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.