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The Red Tower and the harbour, Alanya
AlanyaThe Red Tower and the harbour
The City of Arts and Sciences, Valencia
ValenciaThe City of Arts and Sciences

Photos: Alanya by Atlantic Ambience, Pexels License; Valencia by Francesco Ungaro, Pexels License.

Alanya or Valencia?

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

  • wellness
  • nature and the outdoors
  • prices

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

Choose Valencia for

  • live music and the arts
  • food and drink
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Valencia’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, Valencia 78: Alanya leads by 6 points.
Food & drink. Alanya 43, Valencia 74: Valencia leads by 31 points.
Culture & sights. Alanya 44, Valencia 68: Valencia leads by 24 points.
Nightlife. Alanya 58, Valencia 66: Valencia leads by 8 points.
Nature & outdoors. Alanya 68, Valencia 60: Alanya leads by 8 points.
Day trips. Alanya 62, Valencia 70: Valencia leads by 8 points.
Good for families. Alanya 70, Valencia 75: Valencia leads by 5 points.
Getting around. Alanya 50, Valencia 76: Valencia leads by 26 points.
Shopping & style. Alanya 34, Valencia 57: Valencia leads by 23 points.
Affordability. Alanya 65, Valencia 57: Alanya leads by 8 points.
Live music & performing arts. Alanya 15, Valencia 55: Valencia leads by 40 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Alanya 56, Valencia 42: Alanya leads by 14 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Alanya and Valencia.

Your match

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

Alanya
54match

Wins on wellness and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Valencia
Best match
65match

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

Valencia in July

30 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
7 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
25 °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. Valencia: 1991-2020 normals, Valencia (1.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAlanyaValencia
Official languageTurkishSpanish
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 m15 m
Main airportGazipaşa-Alanya Airport (GZP)38 km from centre22 non-stop destinationsValencia Airport (VLC)9 km from centre109 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureAlanyaValencia
City population364,180840,792
People per km²2286,242
Museums within 10 km245
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
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.