VacationSelector

Alicante or Calgary?

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 museums & heritage with your weighting.

Calgary
38
match

Wins on 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.

AlicanteCalgary
Beaches & swimming. Alicante leads by 77 points.77
AlicanteCalgary
Score770
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km334
Coast distance1 km649 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Alicante and Calgary are level on 66.
AlicanteCalgary
Score6666
Restaurants within 2 km of centre867749
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3136
Museums & heritage. Alicante leads by 33 points.33
AlicanteCalgary
Score429
Museums within 10 km148
Museums within 2 km of centre113
Share of museums within 2 km %7938
Unesco sites within 50 km20
Nightlife. Alicante leads by 7 points.7
AlicanteCalgary
Score5144
Drinking venues within 4 km591465
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre488343
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8374
Nightclubs within 4 km5419
Nature & day trips. Alicante leads by 4 points.4
AlicanteCalgary
Score4036
Protected land share 50 km %74
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %59100
Park area within 2 km60 hectares142 hectares
Good for families. Alicante leads by 1 points.1
AlicanteCalgary
Score4241
Tourist attractions within 2 km133
Park area within 2 km60 hectares142 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km15
Sights concentration. Calgary leads by 13 points.13
AlicanteCalgary
Score2639
Notable places within 2 km1837
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Alicante leads by 17 points.17
AlicanteCalgary
Score7154
Price level global60.884
Daily budget€122
Year-round weather. Alicante leads by 30 points.30
AlicanteCalgary
Score8757
Monthly daytime high17 °C to 31.1 °C-0.7 °C to 24.8 °C
Monthly rainfall3 mm to 52 mm9 mm to 106 mm
Dry months118
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
Calgary
0
-1
4
11
16
20
25
23
19
12
4
0
Sea temperature, °C
Alicante
15
14
15
16
18
22
25
26
25
22
19
16
Calgary
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Alicante
21
18
25
34
21
8
3
12
52
32
34
23
Calgary
9
13
19
28
58
106
44
47
33
21
17
17
Daylight, hours per day
Alicante
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Calgary
9
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Alicante
6
6
8
8
10
10
11
10
8
7
6
6
Calgary
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). Calgary: 1991-2020 normals, Calgary Int'l CS (8.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAlicanteCalgary
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 25 m
€46-56
ALC · 10 km
8 h 55 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 10 m
€62-93
ALC · 10 km
10 h 5 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 35 m
€150-169
1 stop
ALC · 10 km
9 h 5 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 30 m
no fares
VLC · 127 km
4 h 10 m
€170-221
YYC · 9 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 5 m
€85-109
ALC · 10 km
9 h 20 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
DublinDUB
2 h 45 m
€98-122
1 stop
ALC · 10 km
8 h 25 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
EdinburghEDI
3 h 0 m
no fares
ALC · 10 km
8 h 20 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 0 m
€102-136
1 stop
ALC · 10 km
10 h 35 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
ZurichZRH
2 h 10 m
€178-205
1 stop
ALC · 10 km
9 h 50 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 15 m
€128-199
1 stop
VLC · 127 km
9 h 30 m
no fares
YYC · 9 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

MeasureAlicanteCalgary
Official languageSpanishFrench, English
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-7, UTC-6 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation3 m1,045 m
Main airportAlicante-Elche Miguel Hernández Airport (ALC)10 km from centre124 non-stop destinationsCalgary International Airport (YYC)9 km from centre106 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureAlicanteCalgary
City population366,2211,306,784
People per km²1,8191,583
Museums within 10 km813
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Distinct cuisines in the centre5267
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. 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.