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The Red Tower and the harbour, Alanya
AlanyaThe Red Tower and the harbour
Victoria Falls and its gorge from a helicopter, Victoria Falls
Victoria FallsVictoria Falls and its gorge from a helicopter

Photos: Alanya by Atlantic Ambience, Pexels License; Victoria Falls by Murray Foubister, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Alanya or Victoria Falls?

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
  • day trips

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

Choose Victoria Falls for

  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Victoria Falls’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, Victoria Falls 7: Alanya leads by 77 points.
Food & drink. Alanya 43, Victoria Falls 24: Alanya leads by 19 points.
Culture & sights. Alanya 44, Victoria Falls 12: Alanya leads by 32 points.
Nightlife. Alanya 58, Victoria Falls 8: Alanya leads by 50 points.
Nature & outdoors. Alanya 68, Victoria Falls 94: Victoria Falls leads by 26 points.
Day trips. Alanya 62, Victoria Falls 22: Alanya leads by 40 points.
Good for families. Alanya 70, Victoria Falls 38: Alanya leads by 32 points.
Getting around. Alanya 50, Victoria Falls 45: Alanya leads by 5 points.
Shopping & style. Alanya 34, Victoria Falls 18: Alanya leads by 16 points.
Affordability. Alanya 65, Victoria Falls 32: Alanya leads by 33 points.
Live music & performing arts. Alanya 15, Victoria Falls 10: Alanya leads by 5 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Alanya 56, Victoria Falls 34: Alanya leads by 22 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Alanya and Victoria Falls.

Your match

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

Alanya
Best match
54match

Wins on beaches and nightlife with your weighting.

Victoria Falls
29match

Wins on nature and the outdoors 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
28 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Victoria Falls in July

26 °Cdaytime high
8 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
No seasea
11 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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AlanyaVictoria Falls

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. Victoria Falls: 1991-2020 normals, Livingstone (13.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAlanyaVictoria Falls
Official languageTurkishEnglish, Xhosa, Ndau, Venda, Chewa, Khoisan, Kalanga, Shona, Tonga, Tswana, Tsonga, Sesotho, Northern Ndebele, Nambya, Zimbabwe Sign Language, Barwe
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Zimbabwe Gold (ZWG)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzG220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+3UTC+2
Emergency number112999
Elevation10 m961 m
Main airportGazipaşa-Alanya Airport (GZP)38 km from centre22 non-stop destinationsVictoria Falls International Airport (VFA)18 km from centre12 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureAlanyaVictoria Falls
City population364,18033,060
People per km²228-
Museums within 10 km22
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
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.