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The Red Tower and the harbour, Alanya
AlanyaThe Red Tower and the harbour
The Tugu monument in the centre of Yogyakarta, Yogyakarta
YogyakartaThe Tugu monument in the centre of Yogyakarta

Photos: Alanya by Atlantic Ambience, Pexels License; Yogyakarta by CEphoto, Uwe Aranas, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Alanya or Yogyakarta?

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
  • families
  • nightlife

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

Choose Yogyakarta for

  • live music and the arts
  • prices
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on Yogyakarta’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, Yogyakarta 22: Alanya leads by 62 points.
Food & drink. Alanya 43, Yogyakarta 62: Yogyakarta leads by 19 points.
Culture & sights. Alanya 44, Yogyakarta 68: Yogyakarta leads by 24 points.
Nightlife. Alanya 58, Yogyakarta 32: Alanya leads by 26 points.
Nature & outdoors. Alanya 68, Yogyakarta 72: Yogyakarta leads by 4 points.
Day trips. Alanya 62, Yogyakarta 78: Yogyakarta leads by 16 points.
Good for families. Alanya 70, Yogyakarta 40: Alanya leads by 30 points.
Getting around. Alanya 50, Yogyakarta 35: Alanya leads by 15 points.
Shopping & style. Alanya 34, Yogyakarta 52: Yogyakarta leads by 18 points.
Affordability. Alanya 65, Yogyakarta 92: Yogyakarta leads by 27 points.
Live music & performing arts. Alanya 15, Yogyakarta 58: Yogyakarta leads by 43 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Alanya 56, Yogyakarta 50: Alanya leads by 6 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Alanya and Yogyakarta.

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 families with your weighting.

Yogyakarta
55match

Wins on live music and the arts and prices 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

Yogyakarta in July

28 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
55 mmrain in the month
26 °Csea
12 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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AlanyaYogyakarta

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.

Yogyakarta 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. Yogyakarta: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureAlanyaYogyakarta
Official languageTurkishIndonesian
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Rupiah (IDR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+3UTC+7
Emergency number112112
Elevation10 m113 m
Main airportGazipaşa-Alanya Airport (GZP)38 km from centre22 non-stop destinationsYogyakarta International Airport (YIA)39 km from centre20 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days-

By the numbers

MeasureAlanyaYogyakarta
City population364,180422,732
People per km²22813,007
Museums within 10 km238
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
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. 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.