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The Red Tower and the harbour, Alanya
AlanyaThe Red Tower and the harbour
The harbour front with the church tower above the houses, Saint-Tropez
Saint-TropezThe harbour front with the church tower above the houses

Photos: Alanya by Atlantic Ambience, Pexels License; Saint-Tropez by AXP Photography, Pexels License.

Alanya or Saint-Tropez?

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

  • prices
  • families
  • wellness

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

Choose Saint-Tropez for

  • shopping
  • food and drink
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Saint-Tropez’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, Saint-Tropez 82: Alanya leads by 2 points.
Food & drink. Alanya 43, Saint-Tropez 48: Saint-Tropez leads by 5 points.
Culture & sights. Alanya 44, Saint-Tropez 35: Alanya leads by 9 points.
Nightlife. Alanya 58, Saint-Tropez 60: Saint-Tropez leads by 2 points.
Nature & outdoors. Alanya 68, Saint-Tropez 72: Saint-Tropez leads by 4 points.
Day trips. Alanya 62, Saint-Tropez 57: Alanya leads by 5 points.
Good for families. Alanya 70, Saint-Tropez 42: Alanya leads by 28 points.
Getting around. Alanya 50, Saint-Tropez 32: Alanya leads by 18 points.
Shopping & style. Alanya 34, Saint-Tropez 64: Saint-Tropez leads by 30 points.
Affordability. Alanya 65, Saint-Tropez 8: Alanya leads by 57 points.
Live music & performing arts. Alanya 15, Saint-Tropez 18: Saint-Tropez leads by 3 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Alanya 56, Saint-Tropez 35: Alanya leads by 21 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Alanya and Saint-Tropez.

Your match

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

Alanya
Best match
54match

Wins on prices and families with your weighting.

Saint-Tropez
46match

Wins on shopping and food and drink 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

Saint-Tropez in July

32 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
10 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
23 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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AlanyaSaint-Tropez

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.

Saint-Tropez has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Saint-Tropez's sunshine is measured 62 km from the centre, at Nice.

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. Saint-Tropez: 1999-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Le Luc (24.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAlanyaSaint-Tropez
Official languageTurkishFrench
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation10 m0 m
Main airportGazipaşa-Alanya Airport (GZP)38 km from centre22 non-stop destinationsNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)64 km from centre130 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureAlanyaSaint-Tropez
City population364,1803,582
People per km²228320
Museums within 10 km24
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C7 months3 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.