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The Red Tower and the harbour, Alanya
AlanyaThe Red Tower and the harbour
Barlas Island in Honda Bay, Puerto Princesa
Puerto PrincesaBarlas Island in Honda Bay

Photos: Alanya by Atlantic Ambience, Pexels License; Puerto Princesa by Ray in Manila, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Alanya or Puerto Princesa?

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

  • day trips
  • nightlife
  • beaches

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

Choose Puerto Princesa for

  • prices
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Puerto Princesa’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 Princesa 58: Alanya leads by 26 points.
Food & drink. Alanya 43, Puerto Princesa 38: Alanya leads by 5 points.
Culture & sights. Alanya 44, Puerto Princesa 22: Alanya leads by 22 points.
Nightlife. Alanya 58, Puerto Princesa 26: Alanya leads by 32 points.
Nature & outdoors. Alanya 68, Puerto Princesa 80: Puerto Princesa leads by 12 points.
Day trips. Alanya 62, Puerto Princesa 12: Alanya leads by 50 points.
Good for families. Alanya 70, Puerto Princesa 45: Alanya leads by 25 points.
Getting around. Alanya 50, Puerto Princesa 30: Alanya leads by 20 points.
Shopping & style. Alanya 34, Puerto Princesa 20: Alanya leads by 14 points.
Affordability. Alanya 65, Puerto Princesa 78: Puerto Princesa leads by 13 points.
Live music & performing arts. Alanya 15, Puerto Princesa 10: Alanya leads by 5 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Alanya 56, Puerto Princesa 40: Alanya leads by 16 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Alanya and Puerto Princesa.

Your match

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

Alanya
Best match
54match

Wins on day trips and nightlife with your weighting.

Puerto Princesa
38match

Wins on prices and nature and the outdoors 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

Puerto Princesa in July

29 °Cdaytime high
27 °Cnight-time low
216 mmrain in the month
29 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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AlanyaPuerto Princesa

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.

Puerto Princesa 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 Princesa: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureAlanyaPuerto Princesa
Official languageTurkishEnglish, Filipino, Taglish
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Philippine Peso (PHP)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzABC220 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC+8
Emergency number112911
Elevation10 m98 m
Main airportGazipaşa-Alanya Airport (GZP)38 km from centre22 non-stop destinationsPuerto Princesa International Airport / PAF Antonio Bautista Air Base (PPS)2 km from centre5 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days18 days

By the numbers

MeasureAlanyaPuerto Princesa
City population364,180316,384
People per km²228133
Museums within 10 km21
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C7 months12 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. 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.