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The Red Tower and the harbour, Alanya
AlanyaThe Red Tower and the harbour
The Basilica of Saint-Sernin, Toulouse
ToulouseThe Basilica of Saint-Sernin

Photos: Alanya by Atlantic Ambience, Pexels License; Toulouse by ZbebVial, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Alanya or Toulouse?

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
  • wellness
  • prices

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

Choose Toulouse for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Toulouse’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, Toulouse 10: Alanya leads by 74 points.
Food & drink. Alanya 43, Toulouse 66: Toulouse leads by 23 points.
Culture & sights. Alanya 44, Toulouse 64: Toulouse leads by 20 points.
Nightlife. Alanya 58, Toulouse 56: Alanya leads by 2 points.
Nature & outdoors. Alanya 68, Toulouse 58: Alanya leads by 10 points.
Day trips. Alanya 62, Toulouse 72: Toulouse leads by 10 points.
Good for families. Alanya 70, Toulouse 62: Alanya leads by 8 points.
Getting around. Alanya 50, Toulouse 70: Toulouse leads by 20 points.
Shopping & style. Alanya 34, Toulouse 50: Toulouse leads by 16 points.
Affordability. Alanya 65, Toulouse 46: Alanya leads by 19 points.
Live music & performing arts. Alanya 15, Toulouse 58: Toulouse leads by 43 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Alanya 56, Toulouse 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 Toulouse.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Alanya
54match

Wins on beaches and wellness with your weighting.

Toulouse
53match

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

Toulouse in July

28 °Cdaytime high
17 °Cnight-time low
40 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
No seasea
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. Toulouse: 1991-2020 normals, Toulouse / Blagnac (7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAlanyaToulouse
Official languageTurkishFrench
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation10 m115 m
Main airportGazipaşa-Alanya Airport (GZP)38 km from centre22 non-stop destinationsToulouse-Blagnac Airport (TLS)7 km from centre84 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureAlanyaToulouse
City population364,180514,819
People per km²2284,352
Museums within 10 km224
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Swim season, months above 21 °C7 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.