VacationSelector

Alicante or Glasgow?

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 year-round weather and beaches & swimming with your weighting.

Glasgow
48
match

Wins on sights concentration and nightlife 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.

AlicanteGlasgow
Beaches & swimming. Alicante leads by 41 points.41
AlicanteGlasgow
Score7736
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km333
Coast distance1 km3 km
Water distance1 km3 km
Places to eat. Alicante leads by 3 points.3
AlicanteGlasgow
Score6663
Restaurants within 2 km of centre867740
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3129
Museums & heritage. Glasgow leads by 3 points.3
AlicanteGlasgow
Score4245
Museums within 10 km1432
Museums within 2 km of centre1113
Share of museums within 2 km %7941
Unesco sites within 50 km22
Nightlife. Glasgow leads by 12 points.12
AlicanteGlasgow
Score5163
Drinking venues within 4 km5911,078
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre488654
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8361
Nightclubs within 4 km5473
Nature & day trips. Alicante leads by 2 points.2
AlicanteGlasgow
Score4038
Protected land share 50 km %716
Landscape blanket share 50 km %012
Land share of disc %5991
Park area within 2 km60 hectares56 hectares
Good for families. Alicante leads by 1 points.1
AlicanteGlasgow
Score4241
Tourist attractions within 2 km1313
Park area within 2 km60 hectares56 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Glasgow leads by 27 points.27
AlicanteGlasgow
Score2653
Notable places within 2 km1880
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Alicante leads by 17 points.17
AlicanteGlasgow
Score7154
Price level global60.884.9
Daily budget€122—
Year-round weather. Alicante leads by 44 points.44
AlicanteGlasgow
Score8743
Monthly daytime high17 °C to 31.1 °C6.6 °C to 18.9 °C
Monthly rainfall3 mm to 52 mm102 mm to 207 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
Glasgow
7
7
9
12
15
18
19
19
16
13
9
7
Sea temperature, °C
Alicante
15
14
15
16
18
22
25
26
25
22
19
16
Glasgow
8
7
7
8
10
13
15
15
14
12
11
9
Rainfall, mm
Alicante
21
18
25
34
21
8
3
12
52
32
34
23
Glasgow
207
170
147
102
103
111
129
145
132
185
190
205
Daylight, hours per day
Alicante
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Glasgow
8
10
12
14
16
18
17
15
13
11
8
7
Sunshine, hours per day
Alicante
6
6
8
8
10
10
11
10
8
7
6
6
Glasgow
1
2
3
4
5
4
4
4
3
2
2
1

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Alicante: 1991-2020 normals, Alicante (2.8 km from centre). Glasgow: 1991-2020 normals, Glasgow Airport (11.5 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAlicanteGlasgow
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 25 m
€46-56
ALC · 10 km
1 h 20 m
€38-45
GLA · 11 km
PalmaPMI
1 h 0 m
no fares
ALC · 10 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 10 m
€62-93
ALC · 10 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 35 m
€150-169
1 stop
ALC · 10 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
2 h 25 m
€102-119
1 stop
ALC · 10 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
EDI · 56 km
TenerifeTFS, TFN
2 h 50 m
no fares
ALC · 10 km
4 h 30 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
MalagaAGP
1 h 15 m
€46-48
VLC · 127 km
3 h 10 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
BelfastBFS, BHD
2 h 50 m
no fares
ALC · 10 km
50 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
MarrakechRAK
1 h 50 m
no fares
ALC · 10 km
3 h 50 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 30 m
no fares
VLC · 127 km
6 h 25 m
no fares
EDI · 56 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

MeasureAlicanteGlasgow
Official languageSpanishEnglish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112112 or 999
Elevation3 m21 m
Main airportAlicante-Elche Miguel Hernández Airport (ALC)10 km from centre124 non-stop destinationsGlasgow Airport (GLA)11 km from centre95 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureAlicanteGlasgow
City population366,221626,410
People per km²1,819190
Museums within 10 km829
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km22
Distinct cuisines in the centre5254
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 monthsNone

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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.