VacationSelector

Alicante or Innsbruck?

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 year-round weather with your weighting.

Innsbruck
44
match

Wins on nature & day trips and 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.

AlicanteInnsbruck
Beaches & swimming. Alicante leads by 77 points.77
AlicanteInnsbruck
Score770
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km3310
Coast distance1 km217 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Alicante leads by 20 points.20
AlicanteInnsbruck
Score6646
Restaurants within 2 km of centre867270
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3124
Museums & heritage. Innsbruck leads by 6 points.6
AlicanteInnsbruck
Score4248
Museums within 10 km1434
Museums within 2 km of centre1121
Share of museums within 2 km %7962
Unesco sites within 50 km21
Nightlife. Alicante leads by 17 points.17
AlicanteInnsbruck
Score5134
Drinking venues within 4 km591271
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre488216
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8380
Nightclubs within 4 km5416
Nature & day trips. Innsbruck leads by 20 points.20
AlicanteInnsbruck
Score4060
Protected land share 50 km %731
Landscape blanket share 50 km %08
Land share of disc %59100
Park area within 2 km60 hectares38 hectares
Good for families. Innsbruck leads by 3 points.3
AlicanteInnsbruck
Score4245
Tourist attractions within 2 km1318
Park area within 2 km60 hectares38 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Innsbruck leads by 19 points.19
AlicanteInnsbruck
Score2645
Notable places within 2 km1853
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Alicante leads by 12 points.12
AlicanteInnsbruck
Score7159
Price level global60.876.9
Daily budget€122€160
Year-round weather. Alicante leads by 28 points.28
AlicanteInnsbruck
Score8759
Monthly daytime high17 °C to 31.1 °C3.9 °C to 25.6 °C
Monthly rainfall3 mm to 52 mm40 mm to 144 mm
Dry months111
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
Innsbruck
4
7
12
16
21
24
26
25
21
16
9
4
Sea temperature, °C
Alicante
15
14
15
16
18
22
25
26
25
22
19
16
Innsbruck
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Alicante
21
18
25
34
21
8
3
12
52
32
34
23
Innsbruck
50
40
59
60
90
119
129
144
89
70
63
59
Daylight, hours per day
Alicante
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Innsbruck
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Alicante
6
6
8
8
10
10
11
10
8
7
6
6
Innsbruck
3
4
6
6
7
7
8
7
6
5
3
3

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Alicante: 1991-2020 normals, Alicante (2.8 km from centre). Innsbruck: 1991-2020 normals, Innsbruck-Flughafen (3.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAlicanteInnsbruck
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 25 m
€46-56
ALC · 10 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
INN · 4 km
PalmaPMI
1 h 0 m
no fares
ALC · 10 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
FMM · 118 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 40 m
no fares
ALC · 10 km
2 h 5 m
no fares
INN · 4 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 35 m
€150-169
1 stop
ALC · 10 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
INN · 4 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
2 h 25 m
€102-119
1 stop
ALC · 10 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
MUC · 124 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 10 m
€62-93
ALC · 10 km
1 h 55 m
€166-216
MUC · 124 km
BristolBRS
2 h 25 m
€66-103
ALC · 10 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
INN · 4 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 0 m
€102-136
1 stop
ALC · 10 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
FMM · 118 km
MarrakechRAK
1 h 50 m
no fares
ALC · 10 km
3 h 35 m
no fares
MUC · 124 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 30 m
no fares
VLC · 127 km
7 h 55 m
no fares
MUC · 124 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

MeasureAlicanteInnsbruck
Official languageSpanishGerman, Austrian Sign Language
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 m574 m
Main airportAlicante-Elche Miguel Hernández Airport (ALC)10 km from centre124 non-stop destinationsInnsbruck Airport (INN)4 km from centre40 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureAlicanteInnsbruck
City population366,221132,499
People per km²1,8191,263
Museums within 10 km827
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Distinct cuisines in the centre5247
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. 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.