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The Red Tower and the harbour, Alanya
AlanyaThe Red Tower and the harbour
The Iguazu Falls in the green jungle, Puerto Iguazu
Puerto IguazuThe Iguazu Falls in the green jungle

Photos: Alanya by Atlantic Ambience, Pexels License; Puerto Iguazu by Muhammed Ballan, Pexels License.

Alanya or Puerto Iguazu?

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
  • nightlife
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Puerto Iguazu for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Puerto Iguazu’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, Puerto Iguazu 5: Alanya leads by 79 points.
Food & drink. Alanya 43, Puerto Iguazu 28: Alanya leads by 15 points.
Culture & sights. Alanya 44, Puerto Iguazu 9: Alanya leads by 35 points.
Nightlife. Alanya 58, Puerto Iguazu 14: Alanya leads by 44 points.
Nature & outdoors. Alanya 68, Puerto Iguazu 95: Puerto Iguazu leads by 27 points.
Day trips. Alanya 62, Puerto Iguazu 33: Alanya leads by 29 points.
Good for families. Alanya 70, Puerto Iguazu 55: Alanya leads by 15 points.
Getting around. Alanya 50, Puerto Iguazu 54: Puerto Iguazu leads by 4 points.
Shopping & style. Alanya 34, Puerto Iguazu 17: Alanya leads by 17 points.
Affordability. Alanya 65, Puerto Iguazu 48: Alanya leads by 17 points.
Live music & performing arts. Alanya 15, Puerto Iguazu 7: Alanya leads by 8 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Alanya 56, Puerto Iguazu 34: Alanya leads by 22 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Alanya and Puerto Iguazu.

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 nightlife with your weighting.

Puerto Iguazu
33match

Wins on nature and the outdoors 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

Puerto Iguazu in July

22 °Cdaytime high
11 °Cnight-time low
103 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
No seasea
11 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. Puerto Iguazu: 1991-2020 normals, Iguazu Aerodrome (17.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAlanyaPuerto Iguazu
Official languageTurkishSpanish
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Argentine Peso (ARS)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCI220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+3UTC-3
Emergency number112117 or 911
Elevation10 m162 m
Main airportGazipaşa-Alanya Airport (GZP)38 km from centre22 non-stop destinationsCataratas Del Iguazú International Airport (IGR)18 km from centre8 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureAlanyaPuerto Iguazu
City population364,18054,903
People per km²228-
Museums within 10 km20
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.