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The Red Tower and the harbour, Alanya
AlanyaThe Red Tower and the harbour
The Great Mosque with the mountains behind, Tirana
TiranaThe Great Mosque with the mountains behind

Photos: Alanya by Atlantic Ambience, Pexels License; Tirana by Bjørn Christian Tørrissen, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Alanya or Tirana?

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
  • families
  • wellness

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

Choose Tirana for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Tirana’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, Tirana 46: Alanya leads by 38 points.
Food & drink. Alanya 43, Tirana 57: Tirana leads by 14 points.
Culture & sights. Alanya 44, Tirana 42: Alanya leads by 2 points.
Nightlife. Alanya and Tirana are level on 58.
Nature & outdoors. Alanya 68, Tirana 62: Alanya leads by 6 points.
Day trips. Alanya 62, Tirana 64: Tirana leads by 2 points.
Good for families. Alanya 70, Tirana 40: Alanya leads by 30 points.
Getting around. Alanya 50, Tirana 54: Tirana leads by 4 points.
Shopping & style. Alanya 34, Tirana 32: Alanya leads by 2 points.
Affordability. Alanya 65, Tirana 76: Tirana leads by 11 points.
Live music & performing arts. Alanya 15, Tirana 32: Tirana leads by 17 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Alanya 56, Tirana 27: Alanya leads by 29 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Alanya and Tirana.

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 families with your weighting.

Tirana
49match

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

Tirana in July

31 °Cdaytime high
17 °Cnight-time low
43 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
24 °Csea
15 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. Tirana: 1961-1990 normals, Tirana (3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAlanyaTirana
Official languageTurkishAlbanian
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Lek (ALL)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation10 m110 m
Main airportGazipaşa-Alanya Airport (GZP)38 km from centre22 non-stop destinationsTirana International Airport Mother Teresa (TIA)13 km from centre121 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureAlanyaTirana
City population364,180389,323
People per km²2289,314
Museums within 10 km211
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C7 months5 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.