VacationSelector

Alicante or Belgrade?

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

Your match

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Alicante
56
match

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

Belgrade
54
match

Wins on sights concentration and nightlife 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.

AlicanteBelgrade
Beaches & swimming. Alicante leads by 77 points.77
AlicanteBelgrade
Score770
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km339
Coast distance1 km292 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Alicante leads by 3 points.3
AlicanteBelgrade
Score6663
Restaurants within 2 km of centre867776
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3129
Museums & heritage. Belgrade leads by 11 points.11
AlicanteBelgrade
Score4253
Museums within 10 km1467
Museums within 2 km of centre1147
Share of museums within 2 km %7970
Unesco sites within 50 km20
Nightlife. Belgrade leads by 14 points.14
AlicanteBelgrade
Score5165
Drinking venues within 4 km5911,163
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre488841
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8372
Nightclubs within 4 km54130
Nature & day trips. Alicante leads by 2 points.2
AlicanteBelgrade
Score4038
Protected land share 50 km %76
Landscape blanket share 50 km %02
Land share of disc %59100
Park area within 2 km60 hectares147 hectares
Good for families. Belgrade leads by 9 points.9
AlicanteBelgrade
Score4251
Tourist attractions within 2 km1314
Park area within 2 km60 hectares147 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Belgrade leads by 42 points.42
AlicanteBelgrade
Score2668
Notable places within 2 km18190
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Belgrade leads by 14 points.14
AlicanteBelgrade
Score7185
Price level global60.841.7
Daily budget€122€99
Year-round weather. Alicante leads by 22 points.22
AlicanteBelgrade
Score8765
Monthly daytime high17 °C to 31.1 °C5 °C to 29.7 °C
Monthly rainfall3 mm to 52 mm44 mm to 95 mm
Dry months110
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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
Belgrade
5
8
13
19
24
27
29
30
24
19
12
6
Sea temperature, °C
Alicante
15
14
15
16
18
22
25
26
25
22
19
16
Belgrade
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Alicante
21
18
25
34
21
8
3
12
52
32
34
23
Belgrade
48
44
49
51
72
95
67
56
60
55
50
54
Daylight, hours per day
Alicante
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Belgrade
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Alicante
6
6
8
8
10
10
11
10
8
7
6
6
Belgrade
3
4
5
7
8
9
10
9
7
6
3
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Alicante: 1991-2020 normals, Alicante (2.8 km from centre). Belgrade: 1991-2020 normals, Beograd (2.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAlicanteBelgrade
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 25 m
€46-56
ALC · 10 km
2 h 40 m
€103-154
BEG · 12 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 35 m
€167-378
VLC · 127 km
1 h 35 m
€185-297
BEG · 12 km
ZurichZRH
2 h 10 m
€178-205
1 stop
ALC · 10 km
1 h 45 m
€203-237
BEG · 12 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 35 m
€150-169
1 stop
ALC · 10 km
2 h 20 m
€196-211
1 stop
BEG · 12 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 5 m
€85-109
ALC · 10 km
2 h 20 m
€87-103
BEG · 12 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 10 m
€62-93
ALC · 10 km
2 h 30 m
€90-147
BEG · 12 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
2 h 25 m
€102-119
1 stop
ALC · 10 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
TSR · 130 km
OsloOSL, TRF
3 h 40 m
€122-139
ALC · 10 km
2 h 50 m
€178-263
2 stops
BEG · 12 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
3 h 50 m
€96-151
ALC · 10 km
2 h 35 m
€85-94
BEG · 12 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 15 m
€128-199
1 stop
VLC · 127 km
1 h 55 m
€177-224
1 stop
BEG · 12 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

MeasureAlicanteBelgrade
Official languageSpanishSerbian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Serbian Dinar (RSD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112Police 92/192, ambulance 94/194, fire 93/193
Elevation3 m117 m
Main airportAlicante-Elche Miguel Hernández Airport (ALC)10 km from centre124 non-stop destinationsBelgrade Nikola Tesla Airport (BEG)12 km from centre123 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureAlicanteBelgrade
City population366,2211,197,714
People per km²1,8193,327
Museums within 10 km865
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Distinct cuisines in the centre5262
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 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. 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.