VacationSelector

Alicante or Bodrum?

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 museums & heritage and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Bodrum
46
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.

AlicanteBodrum
Beaches & swimming. Alicante and Bodrum are level on 77.
AlicanteBodrum
Score7777
Swim season months55
Beaches 10 km3330
Coast distance1 km0 km
Water distance1 km0 km
Places to eat. Alicante leads by 16 points.16
AlicanteBodrum
Score6650
Restaurants within 2 km of centre867444
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3120
Museums & heritage. Alicante leads by 22 points.22
AlicanteBodrum
Score4220
Museums within 10 km145
Museums within 2 km of centre114
Share of museums within 2 km %7980
Unesco sites within 50 km20
Nightlife. Alicante leads by 6 points.6
AlicanteBodrum
Score5145
Drinking venues within 4 km591418
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre488334
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8380
Nightclubs within 4 km5460
Nature & day trips. Alicante leads by 21 points.21
AlicanteBodrum
Score4019
Protected land share 50 km %75
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5935
Park area within 2 km60 hectares3 hectares
Good for families. Alicante leads by 20 points.20
AlicanteBodrum
Score4222
Tourist attractions within 2 km1315
Park area within 2 km60 hectares3 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Alicante leads by 8 points.8
AlicanteBodrum
Score2618
Notable places within 2 km1811
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bodrum leads by 18 points.18
AlicanteBodrum
Score7189
Price level global60.835.2
Daily budget€122€100
Year-round weather. Alicante leads by 10 points.10
AlicanteBodrum
Score8777
Monthly daytime high17 °C to 31.1 °C13.8 °C to 31.2 °C
Monthly rainfall3 mm to 52 mm0 mm to 147 mm
Dry months115
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
Bodrum
14
15
17
20
24
28
31
31
28
24
19
16
Sea temperature, °C
Alicante
15
14
15
16
18
22
25
26
25
22
19
16
Bodrum
17
16
16
17
19
22
24
25
24
22
20
19
Rainfall, mm
Alicante
21
18
25
34
21
8
3
12
52
32
34
23
Bodrum
140
96
71
51
25
3
0
0
12
42
103
147
Daylight, hours per day
Alicante
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Bodrum
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Alicante
6
6
8
8
10
10
11
10
8
7
6
6
Bodrum
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Alicante: 1991-2020 normals, Alicante (2.8 km from centre). Bodrum: 1993-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Kos Airport (42.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAlicanteBodrum
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 35 m
€167-378
VLC · 127 km
1 h 10 m
€50-55
BJV · 32 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 25 m
€46-56
ALC · 10 km
3 h 50 m
€149-173
1 stop
BJV · 32 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 40 m
no fares
ALC · 10 km
4 h 5 m
no fares
BJV · 32 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
2 h 25 m
€102-119
1 stop
ALC · 10 km
3 h 30 m
€190-240
1 stop
BJV · 32 km
AthensATH
3 h 10 m
no fares
ALC · 10 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
KGS · 40 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 35 m
€150-169
1 stop
ALC · 10 km
3 h 35 m
€229-250
1 stop
BJV · 32 km
BristolBRS
2 h 25 m
€66-103
ALC · 10 km
4 h 0 m
no fares
BJV · 32 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 10 m
€62-93
ALC · 10 km
3 h 15 m
no fares
ADB · 142 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
3 h 20 m
€88-91
ALC · 10 km
2 h 45 m
€232-282
2 stops
BJV · 32 km
BirminghamBHX
2 h 30 m
€69-172
ALC · 10 km
4 h 0 m
€250-300
1 stop
BJV · 32 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

MeasureAlicanteBodrum
Official languageSpanishTurkish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Turkish Lira (TRY)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+3
Emergency number112112
Elevation3 m10 m
Main airportAlicante-Elche Miguel Hernández Airport (ALC)10 km from centre124 non-stop destinationsMilas Bodrum International Airport (BJV)32 km from centre82 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureAlicanteBodrum
City population366,221175,000
People per km²1,819314
Museums within 10 km84
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Distinct cuisines in the centre5230
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months5 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.