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The Red Tower and the harbour, Alanya
AlanyaThe Red Tower and the harbour
Shibuya Crossing, Tokyo
TokyoShibuya Crossing

Photos: Alanya by Atlantic Ambience, Pexels License; Tokyo by Benh LIEU SONG, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Alanya or Tokyo?

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

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

Choose Tokyo for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Tokyo’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, Tokyo 40: Alanya leads by 44 points.
Food & drink. Alanya 43, Tokyo 98: Tokyo leads by 55 points.
Culture & sights. Alanya 44, Tokyo 84: Tokyo leads by 40 points.
Nightlife. Alanya 58, Tokyo 86: Tokyo leads by 28 points.
Nature & outdoors. Alanya and Tokyo are level on 68.
Day trips. Alanya 62, Tokyo 85: Tokyo leads by 23 points.
Good for families. Alanya 70, Tokyo 95: Tokyo leads by 25 points.
Getting around. Alanya 50, Tokyo 98: Tokyo leads by 48 points.
Shopping & style. Alanya 34, Tokyo 99: Tokyo leads by 65 points.
Affordability. Alanya 65, Tokyo 48: Alanya leads by 17 points.
Live music & performing arts. Alanya 15, Tokyo 86: Tokyo leads by 71 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Alanya 56, Tokyo 78: Tokyo leads by 22 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Alanya and Tokyo.

Your match

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

Alanya
54match

Wins on beaches and prices with your weighting.

Tokyo
Best match
80match

Wins on live music and the arts and shopping 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

Tokyo in July

30 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
157 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
23 °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. Tokyo: 1991-2020 normals, Tokyo (3.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAlanyaTokyo
Official languageTurkishJapanese
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Yen (JPY)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+3UTC+9
Emergency number112Police 110, fire 119
Elevation10 m6 m
Main airportGazipaşa-Alanya Airport (GZP)38 km from centre22 non-stop destinationsTokyo Haneda International Airport (HND)18 km from centre98 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureAlanyaTokyo
City population364,18014,264,798
People per km²2286,501
Museums within 10 km2192
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C7 months4 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.