VacationSelector

Alicante or Fort Lauderdale?

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 value for money and sights concentration with your weighting.

Fort Lauderdale
45
match

Wins on nature & day trips and beaches & swimming 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.

AlicanteFort Lauderdale
Beaches & swimming. Fort Lauderdale leads by 7 points.7
AlicanteFort Lauderdale
Score7784
Swim season months512
Beaches 10 km337
Coast distance1 km0 km
Water distance1 km0 km
Places to eat. Alicante leads by 21 points.21
AlicanteFort Lauderdale
Score6645
Restaurants within 2 km of centre867371
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3118
Museums & heritage. Alicante leads by 22 points.22
AlicanteFort Lauderdale
Score4220
Museums within 10 km1414
Museums within 2 km of centre116
Share of museums within 2 km %7943
Unesco sites within 50 km20
Nightlife. Alicante leads by 17 points.17
AlicanteFort Lauderdale
Score5134
Drinking venues within 4 km591259
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre488144
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8356
Nightclubs within 4 km5418
Nature & day trips. Fort Lauderdale leads by 41 points.41
AlicanteFort Lauderdale
Score4081
Protected land share 50 km %720
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5951
Park area within 2 km60 hectares45 hectares
Good for families. Alicante leads by 23 points.23
AlicanteFort Lauderdale
Score4219
Tourist attractions within 2 km132
Park area within 2 km60 hectares45 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Alicante leads by 26 points.26
AlicanteFort Lauderdale
Score260
Notable places within 2 km182
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Alicante leads by 28 points.28
AlicanteFort Lauderdale
Score7143
Price level global60.8100
Daily budget€122
Year-round weather. Alicante leads by 11 points.11
AlicanteFort Lauderdale
Score8776
Monthly daytime high17 °C to 31.1 °C24.2 °C to 32.3 °C
Monthly rainfall3 mm to 52 mm55 mm to 219 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
Fort Lauderdale
24
26
27
29
30
31
32
32
31
30
27
26
Sea temperature, °C
Alicante
15
14
15
16
18
22
25
26
25
22
19
16
Fort Lauderdale
25
25
25
26
27
28
29
30
29
28
27
26
Rainfall, mm
Alicante
21
18
25
34
21
8
3
12
52
32
34
23
Fort Lauderdale
55
59
57
72
159
219
166
198
202
144
91
73
Daylight, hours per day
Alicante
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Fort Lauderdale
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11
Sunshine, hours per day
Alicante
6
6
8
8
10
10
11
10
8
7
6
6
Fort Lauderdale
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). Fort Lauderdale: 1991-2020 normals, Fort Lauderdale (7.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAlicanteFort Lauderdale
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 25 m
€46-56
ALC · 10 km
9 h 0 m
€550-628
1 stop
MIA · 41 km
MadridMAD
1 h 5 m
€72-86
ALC · 10 km
9 h 0 m
€522-631
1 stop
MIA · 41 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 10 m
€62-93
ALC · 10 km
9 h 35 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 35 m
€150-169
1 stop
ALC · 10 km
9 h 25 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 5 m
€85-109
ALC · 10 km
9 h 20 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
3 h 50 m
€96-151
ALC · 10 km
10 h 5 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 30 m
no fares
VLC · 127 km
3 h 15 m
no fares
FLL · 7 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
3 h 20 m
€88-91
ALC · 10 km
10 h 40 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
DublinDUB
2 h 45 m
€98-122
1 stop
ALC · 10 km
8 h 30 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 0 m
€62-83
ALC · 10 km
10 h 0 m
no fares
MIA · 41 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

MeasureAlicanteFort Lauderdale
Official languageSpanish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation3 m11 m
Main airportAlicante-Elche Miguel Hernández Airport (ALC)10 km from centre124 non-stop destinationsFort Lauderdale Hollywood International Airport (FLL)7 km from centre125 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureAlicanteFort Lauderdale
City population366,221182,760
People per km²1,8191,829
Museums within 10 km86
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Distinct cuisines in the centre5225
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months12 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.