VacationSelector
The Red Tower and the harbour, Alanya
AlanyaThe Red Tower and the harbour
The old town below the fortress, Salzburg
SalzburgThe old town below the fortress

Photos: Alanya by Atlantic Ambience, Pexels License; Salzburg by Leonhard Niederwimmer, Pexels License.

Alanya or Salzburg?

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
  • prices

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

Choose Salzburg for

  • live music and the arts
  • culture and sights
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Salzburg’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, Salzburg 35: Alanya leads by 49 points.
Food & drink. Alanya 43, Salzburg 45: Salzburg leads by 2 points.
Culture & sights. Alanya 44, Salzburg 72: Salzburg leads by 28 points.
Nightlife. Alanya 58, Salzburg 25: Alanya leads by 33 points.
Nature & outdoors. Alanya 68, Salzburg 86: Salzburg leads by 18 points.
Day trips. Alanya 62, Salzburg 80: Salzburg leads by 18 points.
Good for families. Alanya 70, Salzburg 65: Alanya leads by 5 points.
Getting around. Alanya 50, Salzburg 72: Salzburg leads by 22 points.
Shopping & style. Alanya 34, Salzburg 48: Salzburg leads by 14 points.
Affordability. Alanya 65, Salzburg 32: Alanya leads by 33 points.
Live music & performing arts. Alanya 15, Salzburg 80: Salzburg leads by 65 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Alanya 56, Salzburg 55: Alanya leads by 1 points.
0255075100

What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Alanya and Salzburg.

Your match

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

Alanya
54match

Wins on beaches and nightlife with your weighting.

Salzburg
Best match
58match

Wins on live music and the arts and culture and sights 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

Salzburg in July

25 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
159 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
No seasea
16 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

0°10°20°30°40°JFMAMJJASOND

Rainfall in the month, mm

050100150200250JFMAMJJASOND
AlanyaSalzburg

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. Salzburg: 1991-2020 normals, Salzburg (3.4 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAlanyaSalzburg
Official languageTurkishGerman, Austrian Sign Language
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation10 m424 m
Main airportGazipaşa-Alanya Airport (GZP)38 km from centre22 non-stop destinationsSalzburg Airport (SZG)3 km from centre64 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureAlanyaSalzburg
City population364,180155,021
People per km²2282,360
Museums within 10 km238
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Swim season, months above 21 °C7 months-

Where else could you go?

Every comparison below shares a destination with this one, so you can follow Alanya or Salzburg somewhere new.

Browse every destination

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.