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Alicante or Dubrovnik?

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 nature & day trips and nightlife with your weighting.

Dubrovnik
44
match

Wins on sights concentration and 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.

AlicanteDubrovnik
Beaches & swimming. Alicante and Dubrovnik are level on 77.
AlicanteDubrovnik
Score7777
Swim season months55
Beaches 10 km3343
Coast distance1 km0 km
Water distance1 km0 km
Places to eat. Alicante leads by 28 points.28
AlicanteDubrovnik
Score6638
Restaurants within 2 km of centre867206
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3118
Museums & heritage. Dubrovnik leads by 7 points.7
AlicanteDubrovnik
Score4249
Museums within 10 km1418
Museums within 2 km of centre1117
Share of museums within 2 km %7994
Unesco sites within 50 km23
Nightlife. Alicante leads by 31 points.31
AlicanteDubrovnik
Score5120
Drinking venues within 4 km591128
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre488110
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8386
Nightclubs within 4 km5413
Nature & day trips. Alicante leads by 35 points.35
AlicanteDubrovnik
Score405
Protected land share 50 km %74
Landscape blanket share 50 km %04
Land share of disc %5951
Park area within 2 km60 hectares6 hectares
Good for families. Alicante leads by 21 points.21
AlicanteDubrovnik
Score4221
Tourist attractions within 2 km1312
Park area within 2 km60 hectares6 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Dubrovnik leads by 18 points.18
AlicanteDubrovnik
Score2644
Notable places within 2 km1848
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Dubrovnik leads by 9 points.9
AlicanteDubrovnik
Score7180
Price level global60.848.5
Daily budget€122€138
Year-round weather. Alicante leads by 22 points.22
AlicanteDubrovnik
Score8765
Monthly daytime high17 °C to 31.1 °C11 °C to 29.1 °C
Monthly rainfall3 mm to 52 mm54 mm to 198 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
Dubrovnik
11
12
14
18
22
26
29
29
25
21
17
13
Sea temperature, °C
Alicante
15
14
15
16
18
22
25
26
25
22
19
16
Dubrovnik
14
14
14
15
19
23
25
26
24
21
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Alicante
21
18
25
34
21
8
3
12
52
32
34
23
Dubrovnik
141
121
112
127
90
71
54
62
143
145
192
198
Daylight, hours per day
Alicante
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Dubrovnik
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Alicante
6
6
8
8
10
10
11
10
8
7
6
6
Dubrovnik
4
4
6
6
8
9
11
10
7
6
4
4

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Alicante: 1991-2020 normals, Alicante (2.8 km from centre). Dubrovnik: 1999-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Dubrovnik / Cilipi (15.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAlicanteDubrovnik
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 25 m
€46-56
ALC · 10 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 40 m
no fares
ALC · 10 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 5 m
€85-109
ALC · 10 km
2 h 20 m
€63-108
DBV · 16 km
DublinDUB
2 h 45 m
€98-122
1 stop
ALC · 10 km
3 h 15 m
€135-178
2 stops
DBV · 16 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
2 h 25 m
€102-119
1 stop
ALC · 10 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 35 m
€150-169
1 stop
ALC · 10 km
2 h 25 m
€182-228
1 stop
DBV · 16 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 10 m
€62-93
ALC · 10 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
MadridMAD
1 h 5 m
€72-86
ALC · 10 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
BristolBRS
2 h 25 m
€66-103
ALC · 10 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 0 m
€102-136
1 stop
ALC · 10 km
1 h 15 m
€55-130
DBV · 16 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

MeasureAlicanteDubrovnik
Official languageSpanishCroatian
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 m10 m
Main airportAlicante-Elche Miguel Hernández Airport (ALC)10 km from centre124 non-stop destinationsDubrovnik Ruđer Bošković Airport (DBV)16 km from centre74 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureAlicanteDubrovnik
City population366,22141,562
People per km²1,819
Museums within 10 km87
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km23
Distinct cuisines in the centre5232
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. 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.