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The Red Tower and the harbour, Alanya
AlanyaThe Red Tower and the harbour
Palermo Cathedral, Palermo
PalermoPalermo Cathedral

Photos: Alanya by Atlantic Ambience, Pexels License; Palermo by Antonino Giangrasso, Pexels License.

Alanya or Palermo?

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

  • families
  • wellness
  • beaches

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

Choose Palermo for

  • live music and the arts
  • food and drink
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on Palermo’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, Palermo 77: Alanya leads by 7 points.
Food & drink. Alanya 43, Palermo 81: Palermo leads by 38 points.
Culture & sights. Alanya 44, Palermo 80: Palermo leads by 36 points.
Nightlife. Alanya and Palermo are level on 58.
Nature & outdoors. Alanya 68, Palermo 72: Palermo leads by 4 points.
Day trips. Alanya 62, Palermo 84: Palermo leads by 22 points.
Good for families. Alanya 70, Palermo 44: Alanya leads by 26 points.
Getting around. Alanya and Palermo are level on 50.
Shopping & style. Alanya 34, Palermo 44: Palermo leads by 10 points.
Affordability. Alanya 65, Palermo 63: Alanya leads by 2 points.
Live music & performing arts. Alanya 15, Palermo 62: Palermo leads by 47 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Alanya 56, Palermo 30: Alanya leads by 26 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Alanya and Palermo.

Your match

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

Alanya
54match

Wins on families and wellness with your weighting.

Palermo
Best match
62match

Wins on live music and the arts and food and drink 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

Palermo in July

29 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
2 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
26 °Csea
15 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.

Palermo 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.

Palermo's sunshine is measured 67 km from the centre, at Ustica.

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. Palermo: 1991-2020 (sunshine 1961-1990) normals, Palermo / Punta Raisi (24.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAlanyaPalermo
Official languageTurkishItalian
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation10 m14 m
Main airportGazipaşa-Alanya Airport (GZP)38 km from centre22 non-stop destinationsFalcone–Borsellino Airport (PMO)25 km from centre106 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureAlanyaPalermo
City population364,180630,167
People per km²2283,924
Museums within 10 km242
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C7 months5 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.