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The Red Tower and the harbour, Alanya
AlanyaThe Red Tower and the harbour
The Opera House on the fjord, Oslo
OsloThe Opera House on the fjord

Photos: Alanya by Atlantic Ambience, Pexels License; Oslo by Beata May, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Alanya or Oslo?

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
  • beaches
  • nightlife

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

Choose Oslo for

  • live music and the arts
  • getting around
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on Oslo’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, Oslo 36: Alanya leads by 48 points.
Food & drink. Alanya 43, Oslo 55: Oslo leads by 12 points.
Culture & sights. Alanya 44, Oslo 66: Oslo leads by 22 points.
Nightlife. Alanya 58, Oslo 48: Alanya leads by 10 points.
Nature & outdoors. Alanya 68, Oslo 82: Oslo leads by 14 points.
Day trips. Alanya 62, Oslo 52: Alanya leads by 10 points.
Good for families. Alanya 70, Oslo 63: Alanya leads by 7 points.
Getting around. Alanya 50, Oslo 85: Oslo leads by 35 points.
Shopping & style. Alanya 34, Oslo 50: Oslo leads by 16 points.
Affordability. Alanya 65, Oslo 14: Alanya leads by 51 points.
Live music & performing arts. Alanya 15, Oslo 62: Oslo leads by 47 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Alanya 56, Oslo 60: Oslo leads by 4 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Alanya and Oslo.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Alanya
54match

Wins on prices and beaches with your weighting.

Oslo
56match

Wins on live music and the arts and getting around 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
No recordsunshine a day
28 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Oslo in July

23 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
86 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
18 °Csea
18 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. Oslo: 1991-2020 normals, Oslo-Blindern (4.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAlanyaOslo
Official languageTurkishNorwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, Sámi
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Norwegian Krone (NOK)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112Police 112, ambulance 113, fire 110
Elevation10 m23 m
Main airportGazipaşa-Alanya Airport (GZP)38 km from centre22 non-stop destinationsOslo-Gardermoen International Airport (OSL)37 km from centre147 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureAlanyaOslo
City population364,180717,710
People per km²228-
Museums within 10 km260
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.