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The Red Tower and the harbour, Alanya
AlanyaThe Red Tower and the harbour
The church of San Francisco under a blue sky, Quito
QuitoThe church of San Francisco under a blue sky

Photos: Alanya by Atlantic Ambience, Pexels License; Quito by Bernard Gagnon, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Alanya or Quito?

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
  • families
  • nightlife

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

Choose Quito for

  • culture and sights
  • live music and the arts
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Quito’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, Quito 5: Alanya leads by 79 points.
Food & drink. Alanya 43, Quito 54: Quito leads by 11 points.
Culture & sights. Alanya 44, Quito 77: Quito leads by 33 points.
Nightlife. Alanya 58, Quito 40: Alanya leads by 18 points.
Nature & outdoors. Alanya 68, Quito 86: Quito leads by 18 points.
Day trips. Alanya 62, Quito 55: Alanya leads by 7 points.
Good for families. Alanya 70, Quito 32: Alanya leads by 38 points.
Getting around. Alanya 50, Quito 45: Alanya leads by 5 points.
Shopping & style. Alanya 34, Quito 40: Quito leads by 6 points.
Affordability. Alanya 65, Quito 78: Quito leads by 13 points.
Live music & performing arts. Alanya 15, Quito 38: Quito leads by 23 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Alanya 56, Quito 44: Alanya leads by 12 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Alanya and Quito.

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 families with your weighting.

Quito
50match

Wins on culture and sights and live music and the arts 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

Quito in July

18 °Cdaytime high
5 °Cnight-time low
32 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
No seasea
12 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.

Quito's station stands 208 m above the city centre, so the centre is likely a little warmer than the figures say.

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. Quito: 1961-1990 normals, Izobamba-Santa Catalina (16.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAlanyaQuito
Official languageTurkishSpanish, Shuar, Northern Quichua
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC-5
Emergency number112911
Elevation10 m2,850 m
Main airportGazipaşa-Alanya Airport (GZP)38 km from centre22 non-stop destinationsMariscal Sucre International Airport (UIO)20 km from centre22 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureAlanyaQuito
City population364,1801,763,275
People per km²2284,735
Museums within 10 km216
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
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.