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The Red Tower and the harbour, Alanya
AlanyaThe Red Tower and the harbour
Camelback Mountain above the city, Scottsdale
ScottsdaleCamelback Mountain above the city

Photos: Alanya by Atlantic Ambience, Pexels License; Scottsdale by Visitor7, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Alanya or Scottsdale?

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
  • prices
  • getting around

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

Choose Scottsdale for

  • shopping
  • live music and the arts
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Scottsdale’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, Scottsdale 8: Alanya leads by 76 points.
Food & drink. Alanya 43, Scottsdale 46: Scottsdale leads by 3 points.
Culture & sights. Alanya 44, Scottsdale 38: Alanya leads by 6 points.
Nightlife. Alanya 58, Scottsdale 52: Alanya leads by 6 points.
Nature & outdoors. Alanya and Scottsdale are level on 68.
Day trips. Alanya 62, Scottsdale 50: Alanya leads by 12 points.
Good for families. Alanya 70, Scottsdale 60: Alanya leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Alanya 50, Scottsdale 20: Alanya leads by 30 points.
Shopping & style. Alanya 34, Scottsdale 60: Scottsdale leads by 26 points.
Affordability. Alanya 65, Scottsdale 32: Alanya leads by 33 points.
Live music & performing arts. Alanya 15, Scottsdale 40: Scottsdale leads by 25 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Alanya 56, Scottsdale 72: Scottsdale leads by 16 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Alanya and Scottsdale.

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 prices with your weighting.

Scottsdale
46match

Wins on shopping 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
28 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Scottsdale in July

41 °Cdaytime high
29 °Cnight-time low
23 mmrain in the month
No seasea
14 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. Scottsdale: 1991-2020 normals, Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport (13.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAlanyaScottsdale
Official languageTurkish-
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC-7
Emergency number112911
Elevation10 m380 m
Main airportGazipaşa-Alanya Airport (GZP)38 km from centre22 non-stop destinationsPhoenix Sky Harbor International Airport (PHX)10 km from centre149 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureAlanyaScottsdale
City population364,180241,361
People per km²228-
Museums within 10 km210
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.