VacationSelector

Alicante or Geneva?

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 value for money with your weighting.

Geneva
50
match

Wins on sights concentration and good for families 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.

AlicanteGeneva
Beaches & swimming. Alicante leads by 77 points.77
AlicanteGeneva
Score770
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km3343
Coast distance1 km279 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Geneva leads by 4 points.4
AlicanteGeneva
Score6670
Restaurants within 2 km of centre8671,028
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3135
Museums & heritage. Geneva leads by 10 points.10
AlicanteGeneva
Score4252
Museums within 10 km1435
Museums within 2 km of centre1120
Share of museums within 2 km %7957
Unesco sites within 50 km22
Nightlife. Alicante leads by 1 points.1
AlicanteGeneva
Score5150
Drinking venues within 4 km591549
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre488427
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8378
Nightclubs within 4 km5460
Nature & day trips. Geneva leads by 19 points.19
AlicanteGeneva
Score4059
Protected land share 50 km %727
Landscape blanket share 50 km %021
Land share of disc %59100
Park area within 2 km60 hectares182 hectares
Good for families. Geneva leads by 23 points.23
AlicanteGeneva
Score4265
Tourist attractions within 2 km1328
Park area within 2 km60 hectares182 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Geneva leads by 30 points.30
AlicanteGeneva
Score2656
Notable places within 2 km1899
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Alicante leads by 36 points.36
AlicanteGeneva
Score7135
Price level global60.8110.5
Daily budget€122€248
Year-round weather. Alicante leads by 28 points.28
AlicanteGeneva
Score8759
Monthly daytime high17 °C to 31.1 °C5.1 °C to 26.8 °C
Monthly rainfall3 mm to 52 mm55 mm to 94 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
Geneva
5
7
12
16
20
24
27
26
21
16
9
6
Sea temperature, °C
Alicante
15
14
15
16
18
22
25
26
25
22
19
16
Geneva
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Alicante
21
18
25
34
21
8
3
12
52
32
34
23
Geneva
71
55
61
66
77
81
77
80
87
94
87
88
Daylight, hours per day
Alicante
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Geneva
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Alicante
6
6
8
8
10
10
11
10
8
7
6
6
Geneva
2
3
6
6
7
8
9
8
6
4
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Alicante: 1991-2020 normals, Alicante (2.8 km from centre). Geneva: 1991-2020 normals, Geneve-Cointrin (5.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAlicanteGeneva
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 25 m
€46-56
ALC · 10 km
1 h 35 m
€91-200
GVA · 5 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
2 h 25 m
€102-119
1 stop
ALC · 10 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
GVA · 5 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 40 m
no fares
ALC · 10 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
GVA · 5 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 35 m
€150-169
1 stop
ALC · 10 km
1 h 30 m
€160-186
GVA · 5 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 5 m
€85-109
ALC · 10 km
1 h 10 m
€104-203
GVA · 5 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 10 m
€62-93
ALC · 10 km
1 h 25 m
€65-78
GVA · 5 km
MadridMAD
1 h 5 m
€72-86
ALC · 10 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
GVA · 5 km
PortoOPO
1 h 35 m
no fares
ALC · 10 km
2 h 10 m
€127-171
1 stop
GVA · 5 km
MarrakechRAK
1 h 50 m
no fares
ALC · 10 km
3 h 5 m
no fares
GVA · 5 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 30 m
no fares
VLC · 127 km
7 h 35 m
no fares
GVA · 5 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

MeasureAlicanteGeneva
Official languageSpanishFrench, German, Italian, Romansh
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Swiss Franc (CHF)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCJ230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation3 m403 m
Main airportAlicante-Elche Miguel Hernández Airport (ALC)10 km from centre124 non-stop destinationsGeneva International Airport (GVA)5 km from centre140 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureAlicanteGeneva
City population366,221209,061
People per km²1,81913,148
Museums within 10 km835
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km22
Distinct cuisines in the centre5280
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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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.