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The Red Tower and the harbour, Alanya
AlanyaThe Red Tower and the harbour
The Opera House from the water, Sydney
SydneyThe Opera House from the water

Photos: Alanya by Atlantic Ambience, Pexels License; Sydney by Bernard Spragg, CC0.

Alanya or Sydney?

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
  • day trips
  • wellness

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

Choose Sydney for

  • live music and the arts
  • food and drink
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Sydney’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, Sydney 95: Sydney leads by 11 points.
Food & drink. Alanya 43, Sydney 77: Sydney leads by 34 points.
Culture & sights. Alanya 44, Sydney 60: Sydney leads by 16 points.
Nightlife. Alanya 58, Sydney 60: Sydney leads by 2 points.
Nature & outdoors. Alanya 68, Sydney 85: Sydney leads by 17 points.
Day trips. Alanya 62, Sydney 50: Alanya leads by 12 points.
Good for families. Alanya 70, Sydney 75: Sydney leads by 5 points.
Getting around. Alanya 50, Sydney 75: Sydney leads by 25 points.
Shopping & style. Alanya 34, Sydney 68: Sydney leads by 34 points.
Affordability. Alanya 65, Sydney 22: Alanya leads by 43 points.
Live music & performing arts. Alanya 15, Sydney 73: Sydney leads by 58 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Alanya 56, Sydney 55: Alanya leads by 1 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Alanya and Sydney.

Your match

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

Alanya
54match

Wins on prices and day trips with your weighting.

Sydney
Best match
66match

Wins on live music and the arts 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

Sydney in July

18 °Cdaytime high
9 °Cnight-time low
70 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
19 °Csea
10 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. Sydney: 1991-2020 normals, Sydney Airport (3.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAlanyaSydney
Official languageTurkishEnglish
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Australian Dollar (AUD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzI230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+3UTC+10, UTC+11 in summer
Emergency number112000
Elevation10 m6 m
Main airportGazipaşa-Alanya Airport (GZP)38 km from centre22 non-stop destinationsSydney Kingsford Smith International Airport (SYD)9 km from centre99 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureAlanyaSydney
City population364,1805,450,496
People per km²228449
Museums within 10 km238
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Swim season, months above 21 °C7 months6 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.