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The Red Tower and the harbour, Alanya
AlanyaThe Red Tower and the harbour
The skyline reflected in the water, The Hague
The HagueThe skyline reflected in the water

Photos: Alanya by Atlantic Ambience, Pexels License; The Hague by Bráulio jardim, Pexels License.

Alanya or The Hague?

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
  • nightlife

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

Choose The Hague for

  • live music and the arts
  • getting around
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on The Hague’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, The Hague 38: Alanya leads by 46 points.
Food & drink. Alanya 43, The Hague 48: The Hague leads by 5 points.
Culture & sights. Alanya 44, The Hague 66: The Hague leads by 22 points.
Nightlife. Alanya 58, The Hague 38: Alanya leads by 20 points.
Nature & outdoors. Alanya 68, The Hague 52: Alanya leads by 16 points.
Day trips. Alanya 62, The Hague 86: The Hague leads by 24 points.
Good for families. Alanya 70, The Hague 72: The Hague leads by 2 points.
Getting around. Alanya 50, The Hague 78: The Hague leads by 28 points.
Shopping & style. Alanya 34, The Hague 55: The Hague leads by 21 points.
Affordability. Alanya 65, The Hague 35: Alanya leads by 30 points.
Live music & performing arts. Alanya 15, The Hague 58: The Hague leads by 43 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Alanya 56, The Hague 45: Alanya leads by 11 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Alanya and The Hague.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Alanya
54match

Wins on beaches and prices with your weighting.

The Hague
56match

Wins on live music and the arts and getting around 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

The Hague in July

21 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
78 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
18 °Csea
16 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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AlanyaThe Hague

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.

The Hague 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.

The Hague's sunshine is measured 60 km from the centre, at De Bilt.

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. The Hague: 1991-2020 normals, Valkenburg (13.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAlanyaThe Hague
Official languageTurkishDutch
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 m1 m
Main airportGazipaşa-Alanya Airport (GZP)38 km from centre22 non-stop destinationsRotterdam The Hague Airport (RTM)16 km from centre53 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureAlanyaThe Hague
City population364,180548,320
People per km²2285,589
Museums within 10 km254
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km04
Swim season, months above 21 °C7 monthsNone

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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.