VacationSelector

Alicante or Buenos Aires?

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.

Buenos Aires
✓ Best match
63
match

Wins on sights concentration and good for families with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

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

AlicanteBuenos Aires
Beaches & swimming. Alicante leads by 44 points.44
AlicanteBuenos Aires
Score7733
Swim season months54
Beaches 10 km330
Coast distance1 km2 km
Water distance1 km2 km
Places to eat. Buenos Aires leads by 1 points.1
AlicanteBuenos Aires
Score6667
Restaurants within 2 km of centre8671,197
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3126
Museums & heritage. Buenos Aires leads by 24 points.24
AlicanteBuenos Aires
Score4266
Museums within 10 km14148
Museums within 2 km of centre1171
Share of museums within 2 km %7948
Unesco sites within 50 km21
Nightlife. Buenos Aires leads by 17 points.17
AlicanteBuenos Aires
Score5168
Drinking venues within 4 km5911,295
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre488777
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8360
Nightclubs within 4 km54160
Nature & day trips. Buenos Aires leads by 3 points.3
AlicanteBuenos Aires
Score4043
Protected land share 50 km %79
Landscape blanket share 50 km %01
Land share of disc %5967
Park area within 2 km60 hectares69 hectares
Good for families. Buenos Aires leads by 27 points.27
AlicanteBuenos Aires
Score4269
Tourist attractions within 2 km1349
Park area within 2 km60 hectares69 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km16
Sights concentration. Buenos Aires leads by 34 points.34
AlicanteBuenos Aires
Score2660
Notable places within 2 km18125
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Buenos Aires leads by 11 points.11
AlicanteBuenos Aires
Score7182
Price level global60.845.8
Daily budget€122
Year-round weather. Alicante leads by 12 points.12
AlicanteBuenos Aires
Score8775
Monthly daytime high17 °C to 31.1 °C14.7 °C to 28.5 °C
Monthly rainfall3 mm to 52 mm50 mm to 135 mm
Dry months110
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
Buenos Aires
29
27
26
22
19
16
15
17
18
22
24
28
Sea temperature, °C
Alicante
15
14
15
16
18
22
25
26
25
22
19
16
Buenos Aires
25
25
23
21
17
14
13
13
15
18
21
23
Rainfall, mm
Alicante
21
18
25
34
21
8
3
12
52
32
34
23
Buenos Aires
135
94
123
122
85
54
50
52
58
98
87
107
Daylight, hours per day
Alicante
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Buenos Aires
14
13
12
11
10
10
10
11
12
13
14
14
Sunshine, hours per day
Alicante
6
6
8
8
10
10
11
10
8
7
6
6
Buenos Aires
10
8
8
6
6
4
5
6
6
7
8
9

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Alicante: 1991-2020 normals, Alicante (2.8 km from centre). Buenos Aires: 1991-2020 normals, Aeroparque Bs. As. Aerodrome (4.9 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromAlicanteBuenos Aires
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 25 m
€46-56
ALC · 10 km
13 h 45 m
€1,147-1238
2 stops
EZE · 28 km
MadridMAD
1 h 5 m
€72-86
ALC · 10 km
12 h 30 m
€961-982
EZE · 28 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 35 m
€150-169
1 stop
ALC · 10 km
14 h 10 m
no fares
EZE · 28 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 5 m
€85-109
ALC · 10 km
13 h 45 m
€1,227-1245
2 stops
EZE · 28 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 10 m
€62-93
ALC · 10 km
13 h 0 m
no fares
EZE · 28 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 0 m
€102-136
1 stop
ALC · 10 km
13 h 45 m
€1,021-1169
1 stop
EZE · 28 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 15 m
€128-199
1 stop
VLC · 127 km
14 h 10 m
€1,193-1373
3 stops
EZE · 28 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 35 m
€167-378
VLC · 127 km
15 h 5 m
€965-1220
EZE · 28 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

MeasureAlicanteBuenos Aires
Official languageSpanishSpanish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Argentine Peso (ARS)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCI220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-3
Emergency number112117 or 911
Elevation3 m25 m
Main airportAlicante-Elche Miguel Hernández Airport (ALC)10 km from centre124 non-stop destinationsEzeiza International Airport - Ministro Pistarini (EZE)28 km from centre53 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureAlicanteBuenos Aires
City population366,2213,121,707
People per km²1,81915,355
Museums within 10 km875
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Distinct cuisines in the centre5255
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months4 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.