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The Red Tower and the harbour, Alanya
AlanyaThe Red Tower and the harbour
The Riverwalk and the Cape Fear Memorial Bridge, Wilmington
WilmingtonThe Riverwalk and the Cape Fear Memorial Bridge

Photos: Alanya by Atlantic Ambience, Pexels License; Wilmington by Unexpected Snacks, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Alanya or Wilmington?

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

  • prices
  • wellness
  • getting around

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

Choose Wilmington for

  • live music and the arts
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on Wilmington’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, Wilmington 73: Alanya leads by 11 points.
Food & drink. Alanya 43, Wilmington 48: Wilmington leads by 5 points.
Culture & sights. Alanya 44, Wilmington 40: Alanya leads by 4 points.
Nightlife. Alanya 58, Wilmington 40: Alanya leads by 18 points.
Nature & outdoors. Alanya 68, Wilmington 58: Alanya leads by 10 points.
Day trips. Alanya 62, Wilmington 45: Alanya leads by 17 points.
Good for families. Alanya 70, Wilmington 62: Alanya leads by 8 points.
Getting around. Alanya 50, Wilmington 28: Alanya leads by 22 points.
Shopping & style. Alanya 34, Wilmington 33: Alanya leads by 1 points.
Affordability. Alanya 65, Wilmington 42: Alanya leads by 23 points.
Live music & performing arts. Alanya 15, Wilmington 40: Wilmington leads by 25 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Alanya 56, Wilmington 33: Alanya leads by 23 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Alanya and Wilmington.

Your match

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

Alanya
Best match
54match

Wins on prices and wellness with your weighting.

Wilmington
45match

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

Wilmington in July

32 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
174 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
27 °Csea
14 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. Wilmington: 1991-2020 normals, Wilmington / The Palms Mobile Home Park (5.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAlanyaWilmington
Official languageTurkish-
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation10 m9 m
Main airportGazipaşa-Alanya Airport (GZP)38 km from centre22 non-stop destinationsWilmington International Airport (ILM)5 km from centre25 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureAlanyaWilmington
City population364,180115,451
People per km²228839
Museums within 10 km22
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C7 months6 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.