VacationSelector

Alicante or Bangkok?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Alicante
56
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and year-round weather with your weighting.

Bangkok
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on nightlife and sights concentration with your weighting.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

AlicanteBangkok
Beaches & swimming. Alicante leads by 37 points.37
AlicanteBangkok
Score7740
Swim season months512
Beaches 10 km330
Coast distance1 km23 km
Water distance1 km23 km
Places to eat. Bangkok leads by 17 points.17
AlicanteBangkok
Score6683
Restaurants within 2 km of centre8673,957
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3126
Museums & heritage. Bangkok leads by 4 points.4
AlicanteBangkok
Score4246
Museums within 10 km14103
Museums within 2 km of centre1130
Share of museums within 2 km %7929
Unesco sites within 50 km20
Nightlife. Bangkok leads by 32 points.32
AlicanteBangkok
Score5183
Drinking venues within 4 km5913,383
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre4881,396
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8341
Nightclubs within 4 km5472
Nature & day trips. Bangkok leads by 11 points.11
AlicanteBangkok
Score4051
Protected land share 50 km %7—
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5983
Park area within 2 km60 hectares42 hectares
Good for families. Bangkok leads by 15 points.15
AlicanteBangkok
Score4257
Tourist attractions within 2 km1331
Park area within 2 km60 hectares42 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km14
Sights concentration. Bangkok leads by 22 points.22
AlicanteBangkok
Score2648
Notable places within 2 km1862
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bangkok leads by 22 points.22
AlicanteBangkok
Score7193
Price level global60.829.7
Daily budget€122—
Year-round weather. Alicante leads by 31 points.31
AlicanteBangkok
Score8756
Monthly daytime high17 °C to 31.1 °C32.4 °C to 35.8 °C
Monthly rainfall3 mm to 52 mm7 mm to 331 mm
Dry months113
0255075100

When should you go?

The figures behind each month. Each row is shaded against that destination's own year, so the deepest cell is its best month for that measure and the palest its weakest. Shades are not comparable between the two rows.

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Daytime high, °C
Alicante
17
18
20
22
24
28
30
31
29
25
21
18
Bangkok
33
34
35
36
35
34
34
33
33
33
33
32
Sea temperature, °C
Alicante
15
14
15
16
18
22
25
26
25
22
19
16
Bangkok
27
28
29
30
31
30
30
30
29
29
29
28
Rainfall, mm
Alicante
21
18
25
34
21
8
3
12
52
32
34
23
Bangkok
18
22
43
92
221
187
184
227
331
276
42
7
Daylight, hours per day
Alicante
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Bangkok
11
12
12
12
13
13
13
13
12
12
12
11
Sunshine, hours per day
Alicante
6
6
8
8
10
10
11
10
8
7
6
6
Bangkok
8
8
8
8
7
5
5
4
4
5
7
8

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Alicante: 1991-2020 normals, Alicante (2.8 km from centre). Bangkok: 1991-2020 normals, Bangkok (5.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAlicanteBangkok
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 25 m
€46-56
ALC · 10 km
11 h 55 m
€438-523
BKK · 26 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 40 m
no fares
ALC · 10 km
12 h 0 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
2 h 25 m
€102-119
1 stop
ALC · 10 km
11 h 35 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 35 m
€150-169
1 stop
ALC · 10 km
11 h 30 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
OsloOSL, TRF
3 h 40 m
€122-139
ALC · 10 km
10 h 50 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 5 m
€85-109
ALC · 10 km
11 h 45 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
3 h 50 m
€96-151
ALC · 10 km
10 h 25 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
MadridMAD
1 h 5 m
€72-86
ALC · 10 km
12 h 40 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 0 m
€62-83
ALC · 10 km
11 h 20 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
CopenhagenCPH
3 h 15 m
€110-130
1 stop
ALC · 10 km
10 h 50 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km

The busiest departure cities for these two, with a place kept for each other part of the world. Busiest means arriving passengers where an official count exists, and where none does, the number of non-stop services flown: official route statistics are published by the European reporting countries and by nobody else, so a table ranked on them alone would offer a reader in New York or Tokyo ten European cities. Flying times are estimated from the distance between airports, and every row is a city flown non-stop to both. Where the typical offer connects anyway, the stops are shown. Under each figure is the airport the flight lands at and how far that is from the centre, because the nearest airport is not always the one a route is flown to. Where both columns name the same airport it is one flight, and the difference between the two is the distance printed beside it. Typical return fares for 2026-08 to 2026-10, cached market data up to 7 days old. The figure is the middle half of the offers found, so a single price means they agreed and a range means they did not; for a typical route that middle half spans about a quarter of the median, and for the least settled routes rather more than the median itself.

Before you go

MeasureAlicanteBangkok
Official languageSpanishThai
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Baht (THB)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzABCF220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+7
Emergency number112Police 191, ambulance 1669, fire 199
Elevation3 m2 m
Main airportAlicante-Elche Miguel Hernández Airport (ALC)10 km from centre124 non-stop destinationsSuvarnabhumi Airport (BKK)26 km from centre142 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days–

By the numbers

MeasureAlicanteBangkok
City population366,2215,676,648
People per km²1,8193,619
Museums within 10 km859
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Distinct cuisines in the centre5291
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months12 months

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Sources

© OpenStreetMap contributors, data available under the Open Database Licence. Place counts include data from Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA Permissive 2.0), assembled from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and other providers. Notable-place counts from Wikidata (CC0), weighted by Wikipedia language editions. Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. 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). 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0.

Scores follow rubric v2; snapshot generated 2026-08-31. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.