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The Red Tower and the harbour, Alanya
AlanyaThe Red Tower and the harbour
Palm Canyon Drive, lined with tall palms, Palm Springs
Palm SpringsPalm Canyon Drive, lined with tall palms

Photos: Alanya by Atlantic Ambience, Pexels License; Palm Springs by Domenico Convertini, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Alanya or Palm Springs?

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

  • beaches
  • prices
  • families

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

Choose Palm Springs for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Palm Springs’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, Palm Springs 7: Alanya leads by 77 points.
Food & drink. Alanya 43, Palm Springs 40: Alanya leads by 3 points.
Culture & sights. Alanya 44, Palm Springs 42: Alanya leads by 2 points.
Nightlife. Alanya 58, Palm Springs 36: Alanya leads by 22 points.
Nature & outdoors. Alanya 68, Palm Springs 78: Palm Springs leads by 10 points.
Day trips. Alanya 62, Palm Springs 38: Alanya leads by 24 points.
Good for families. Alanya 70, Palm Springs 40: Alanya leads by 30 points.
Getting around. Alanya 50, Palm Springs 22: Alanya leads by 28 points.
Shopping & style. Alanya 34, Palm Springs 44: Palm Springs leads by 10 points.
Affordability. Alanya 65, Palm Springs 32: Alanya leads by 33 points.
Live music & performing arts. Alanya 15, Palm Springs 40: Palm Springs leads by 25 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Alanya 56, Palm Springs 80: Palm Springs leads by 24 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Alanya and Palm Springs.

Your match

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

Alanya
Best match
54match

Wins on beaches and prices with your weighting.

Palm Springs
42match

Wins on live music and the arts and wellness 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

Palm Springs in July

42 °Cdaytime high
28 °Cnight-time low
5 mmrain in the month
No seasea
14 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.

Palm Springs 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. Palm Springs: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Palm Springs (2.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAlanyaPalm Springs
Official languageTurkish-
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation10 m146 m
Main airportGazipaşa-Alanya Airport (GZP)38 km from centre22 non-stop destinationsPalm Springs International Airport (PSP)2 km from centre29 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureAlanyaPalm Springs
City population364,18044,575
People per km²228181
Museums within 10 km23
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C7 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.