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The Red Tower and the harbour, Alanya
AlanyaThe Red Tower and the harbour
Rice terraces and palms at Tegallalang, Ubud
UbudRice terraces and palms at Tegallalang

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

Alanya or Ubud?

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
  • nightlife
  • getting around

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

Choose Ubud for

  • wellness
  • live music and the arts
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Ubud’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, Ubud 38: Alanya leads by 46 points.
Food & drink. Alanya 43, Ubud 60: Ubud leads by 17 points.
Culture & sights. Alanya 44, Ubud 58: Ubud leads by 14 points.
Nightlife. Alanya 58, Ubud 15: Alanya leads by 43 points.
Nature & outdoors. Alanya 68, Ubud 80: Ubud leads by 12 points.
Day trips. Alanya 62, Ubud 72: Ubud leads by 10 points.
Good for families. Alanya 70, Ubud 48: Alanya leads by 22 points.
Getting around. Alanya 50, Ubud 10: Alanya leads by 40 points.
Shopping & style. Alanya 34, Ubud 52: Ubud leads by 18 points.
Affordability. Alanya 65, Ubud 80: Ubud leads by 15 points.
Live music & performing arts. Alanya 15, Ubud 47: Ubud leads by 32 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Alanya 56, Ubud 96: Ubud leads by 40 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Alanya and Ubud.

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 nightlife with your weighting.

Ubud
55match

Wins on wellness and live music and the arts 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

Ubud in July

29 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
110 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
27 °Csea
12 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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AlanyaUbud

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.

Ubud's temperatures are measured 29 km from the centre, at Denpasar / Ngurah-Rai.

Ubud's station stands 209 m below the city centre, so the centre is likely a little cooler than the figures say.

Ubud 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.

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. Ubud: 1991-2020 normals, Denpasar / Ngurah-Rai (29 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAlanyaUbud
Official languageTurkishIndonesian
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Rupiah (IDR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+3UTC+8
Emergency number112112
Elevation10 m210 m
Main airportGazipaşa-Alanya Airport (GZP)38 km from centre22 non-stop destinationsDenpasar I Gusti Ngurah Rai International Airport (DPS)29 km from centre64 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days-

By the numbers

MeasureAlanyaUbud
City population364,180-
People per km²228-
Museums within 10 km214
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C7 months12 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.