VacationSelector

Alicante or Bled?

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

Your match

Alicante
✓ Best match
56
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nightlife with your weighting.

Bled
28
match

Wins on value for money 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.

AlicanteBled
Beaches & swimming. Alicante leads by 77 points.77
AlicanteBled
Score770
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km333
Coast distance1 km76 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Alicante leads by 47 points.47
AlicanteBled
Score6619
Restaurants within 2 km of centre86743
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3113
Museums & heritage. Alicante leads by 15 points.15
AlicanteBled
Score4227
Museums within 10 km1416
Museums within 2 km of centre111
Share of museums within 2 km %796
Unesco sites within 50 km23
Nightlife. Alicante leads by 49 points.49
AlicanteBled
Score512
Drinking venues within 4 km59143
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre48836
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8384
Nightclubs within 4 km541
Nature & day trips. Alicante leads by 7 points.7
AlicanteBled
Score4033
Protected land share 50 km %720
Landscape blanket share 50 km %02
Land share of disc %59100
Park area within 2 km60 hectares9 hectares
Good for families. Alicante leads by 25 points.25
AlicanteBled
Score4217
Tourist attractions within 2 km137
Park area within 2 km60 hectares9 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Alicante leads by 4 points.4
AlicanteBled
Score2622
Notable places within 2 km1814
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bled leads by 1 points.1
AlicanteBled
Score7172
Price level global60.859.6
Daily budget€122€131
Year-round weather. Alicante leads by 30 points.30
AlicanteBled
Score8757
Monthly daytime high17 °C to 31.1 °C1.3 °C to 26.7 °C
Monthly rainfall3 mm to 52 mm28 mm to 139 mm
Dry months112
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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A
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N
D
Daytime high, °C
Alicante
17
18
20
22
24
28
30
31
29
25
21
18
Bled
1
5
12
16
21
25
27
26
21
15
7
1
Sea temperature, °C
Alicante
15
14
15
16
18
22
25
26
25
22
19
16
Bled
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Alicante
21
18
25
34
21
8
3
12
52
32
34
23
Bled
28
35
50
67
86
108
127
139
114
95
93
55
Daylight, hours per day
Alicante
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Bled
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
Bled
3
5
6
6
8
8
8
8
6
4
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Alicante: 1991-2020 normals, Alicante (2.8 km from centre). Bled: 1991-2020 normals, Klagenfurt (35.5 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAlicanteBled
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 25 m
€46-56
ALC · 10 km
2 h 5 m
no fares
LJU · 31 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 0 m
€102-136
1 stop
ALC · 10 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
TRS · 78 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
2 h 25 m
€102-119
1 stop
ALC · 10 km
1 h 45 m
€184-197
1 stop
LJU · 31 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 35 m
€167-378
VLC · 127 km
2 h 10 m
€188-190
LJU · 31 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 5 m
€85-109
ALC · 10 km
1 h 45 m
€139-178
1 stop
LJU · 31 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 40 m
no fares
ALC · 10 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
LJU · 31 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 35 m
€150-169
1 stop
ALC · 10 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
LJU · 31 km
ZurichZRH
2 h 10 m
€178-205
1 stop
ALC · 10 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
LJU · 31 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 10 m
€62-93
ALC · 10 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
TRS · 78 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 15 m
€128-199
1 stop
VLC · 127 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
LJU · 31 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

MeasureAlicanteBled
Official languageSpanishSlovene
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation3 m501 m
Main airportAlicante-Elche Miguel Hernández Airport (ALC)10 km from centre124 non-stop destinationsLjubljana Jože Pučnik Airport (LJU)31 km from centre28 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days21 days

By the numbers

MeasureAlicanteBled
City population366,2214,969
People per km²1,81926
Museums within 10 km84
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km23
Distinct cuisines in the centre5217
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.