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The Red Tower and the harbour, Alanya
AlanyaThe Red Tower and the harbour
The Silver Pagoda, Phnom Penh
Phnom PenhThe Silver Pagoda

Photos: Alanya by Atlantic Ambience, Pexels License; Phnom Penh by Francisco Anzola, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Alanya or Phnom Penh?

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
  • nature and the outdoors
  • families

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

Choose Phnom Penh for

  • prices
  • food and drink
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on Phnom Penh’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, Phnom Penh 6: Alanya leads by 78 points.
Food & drink. Alanya 43, Phnom Penh 62: Phnom Penh leads by 19 points.
Culture & sights. Alanya 44, Phnom Penh 62: Phnom Penh leads by 18 points.
Nightlife. Alanya and Phnom Penh are level on 58.
Nature & outdoors. Alanya 68, Phnom Penh 28: Alanya leads by 40 points.
Day trips. Alanya 62, Phnom Penh 34: Alanya leads by 28 points.
Good for families. Alanya 70, Phnom Penh 32: Alanya leads by 38 points.
Getting around. Alanya 50, Phnom Penh 35: Alanya leads by 15 points.
Shopping & style. Alanya 34, Phnom Penh 46: Phnom Penh leads by 12 points.
Affordability. Alanya 65, Phnom Penh 86: Phnom Penh leads by 21 points.
Live music & performing arts. Alanya 15, Phnom Penh 32: Phnom Penh leads by 17 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Alanya 56, Phnom Penh 50: Alanya leads by 6 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Alanya and Phnom Penh.

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 nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Phnom Penh
44match

Wins on prices 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
28 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Phnom Penh in July

33 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
168 mmrain in the month
No seasea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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AlanyaPhnom Penh

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. Phnom Penh: 1991-2020 normals, Phnom-Penh / Pochentong (8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAlanyaPhnom Penh
Official languageTurkishKhmer
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Riel (KHR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzACG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC+7
Emergency number112Police 117, ambulance 119, fire 118
Elevation10 m11 m
Main airportGazipaşa-Alanya Airport (GZP)38 km from centre22 non-stop destinationsTecho International Airport (KTI)23 km from centre41 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days21 days

By the numbers

MeasureAlanyaPhnom Penh
City population364,1802,129,371
People per km²2283,138
Museums within 10 km23
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
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.