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The Red Tower and the harbour, Alanya
AlanyaThe Red Tower and the harbour
Valletta from the water, Valletta
VallettaValletta from the water

Photos: Alanya by Atlantic Ambience, Pexels License; Valletta by Pho Tomass, Pexels License.

Alanya or Valletta?

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
  • beaches
  • prices

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

Choose Valletta for

  • culture and sights
  • live music and the arts
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Valletta’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, Valletta 68: Alanya leads by 16 points.
Food & drink. Alanya 43, Valletta 55: Valletta leads by 12 points.
Culture & sights. Alanya 44, Valletta 76: Valletta leads by 32 points.
Nightlife. Alanya 58, Valletta 46: Alanya leads by 12 points.
Nature & outdoors. Alanya 68, Valletta 56: Alanya leads by 12 points.
Day trips. Alanya 62, Valletta 76: Valletta leads by 14 points.
Good for families. Alanya 70, Valletta 58: Alanya leads by 12 points.
Getting around. Alanya 50, Valletta 62: Valletta leads by 12 points.
Shopping & style. Alanya 34, Valletta 38: Valletta leads by 4 points.
Affordability. Alanya 65, Valletta 50: Alanya leads by 15 points.
Live music & performing arts. Alanya 15, Valletta 44: Valletta leads by 29 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Alanya 56, Valletta 32: Alanya leads by 24 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Alanya and Valletta.

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 wellness and beaches with your weighting.

Valletta
55match

Wins on culture and sights 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

Valletta in July

32 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
25 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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AlanyaValletta

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. Valletta: 1991-2020 normals, Luqa (5.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAlanyaValletta
Official languageTurkishEnglish, Maltese
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+3UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation10 m56 m
Main airportGazipaşa-Alanya Airport (GZP)38 km from centre22 non-stop destinationsMalta International Airport (MLA)6 km from centre113 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureAlanyaValletta
City population364,1805,197
People per km²2286,496
Museums within 10 km216
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Swim season, months above 21 °C7 months6 months

Where else could you go?

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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.