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The Red Tower and the harbour, Alanya
AlanyaThe Red Tower and the harbour
The Cap Spartel lighthouse among palms, Tangier
TangierThe Cap Spartel lighthouse among palms

Photos: Alanya by Atlantic Ambience, Pexels License; Tangier by Ideophagous, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Alanya or Tangier?

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

  • families
  • beaches
  • nightlife

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

Choose Tangier for

  • food and drink
  • culture and sights
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Tangier’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, Tangier 50: Alanya leads by 34 points.
Food & drink. Alanya 43, Tangier 58: Tangier leads by 15 points.
Culture & sights. Alanya 44, Tangier 57: Tangier leads by 13 points.
Nightlife. Alanya 58, Tangier 30: Alanya leads by 28 points.
Nature & outdoors. Alanya 68, Tangier 55: Alanya leads by 13 points.
Day trips. Alanya 62, Tangier 72: Tangier leads by 10 points.
Good for families. Alanya 70, Tangier 35: Alanya leads by 35 points.
Getting around. Alanya 50, Tangier 40: Alanya leads by 10 points.
Shopping & style. Alanya 34, Tangier 42: Tangier leads by 8 points.
Affordability. Alanya 65, Tangier 76: Tangier leads by 11 points.
Live music & performing arts. Alanya 15, Tangier 28: Tangier leads by 13 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Alanya 56, Tangier 50: Alanya leads by 6 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Alanya and Tangier.

Your match

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

Alanya
Best match
54match

Wins on families and beaches with your weighting.

Tangier
49match

Wins on food and drink 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

Tangier in July

29 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
22 °Csea
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. Tangier: 1991-2020 normals, Tanger Aerodrome (9.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAlanyaTangier
Official languageTurkishArabic, Standard Moroccan Tamazight
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Moroccan Dirham (MAD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCE50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC+1
Emergency number112Police 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15
Elevation10 m56 m
Main airportGazipaşa-Alanya Airport (GZP)38 km from centre22 non-stop destinationsTangier Ibn Battuta Airport (TNG)11 km from centre50 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureAlanyaTangier
City population364,1801,275,428
People per km²2286,393
Museums within 10 km26
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
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.