VacationSelector

Alicante or Interlaken?

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 nightlife with your weighting.

Interlaken
23
match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

AlicanteInterlaken
Beaches & swimming. Alicante leads by 77 points.77
AlicanteInterlaken
Score770
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km3312
Coast distance1 km713 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Alicante leads by 37 points.37
AlicanteInterlaken
Score6629
Restaurants within 2 km of centre867118
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3117
Museums & heritage. Alicante leads by 19 points.19
AlicanteInterlaken
Score4223
Museums within 10 km145
Museums within 2 km of centre112
Share of museums within 2 km %7940
Unesco sites within 50 km22
Nightlife. Alicante leads by 47 points.47
AlicanteInterlaken
Score514
Drinking venues within 4 km59142
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre48838
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8390
Nightclubs within 4 km543
Nature & day trips. Alicante leads by 13 points.13
AlicanteInterlaken
Score4027
Protected land share 50 km %719
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %59100
Park area within 2 km60 hectares5 hectares
Good for families. Alicante leads by 28 points.28
AlicanteInterlaken
Score4214
Tourist attractions within 2 km1311
Park area within 2 km60 hectares5 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Alicante leads by 4 points.4
AlicanteInterlaken
Score2622
Notable places within 2 km1814
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Alicante leads by 36 points.36
AlicanteInterlaken
Score7135
Price level global60.8110.5
Daily budget€122€248
Year-round weather. Alicante leads by 30 points.30
AlicanteInterlaken
Score8757
Monthly daytime high17 °C to 31.1 °C2.8 °C to 23.6 °C
Monthly rainfall3 mm to 52 mm34 mm to 68 mm
Dry months113
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
Interlaken
3
5
9
15
17
22
24
23
18
14
7
4
Sea temperature, °C
Alicante
15
14
15
16
18
22
25
26
25
22
19
16
Interlaken
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Alicante
21
18
25
34
21
8
3
12
52
32
34
23
Interlaken
53
41
37
34
52
48
62
61
38
43
51
68
Daylight, hours per day
Alicante
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Interlaken
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
9
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Alicante
6
6
8
8
10
10
11
10
8
7
6
6
Interlaken
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). Interlaken: 2005-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Meiringen / Unterbach (19.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAlicanteInterlaken
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 25 m
€46-56
ALC · 10 km
1 h 35 m
€110-163
ZRH · 100 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 35 m
€150-169
1 stop
ALC · 10 km
1 h 25 m
€234-276
ZRH · 100 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 10 m
€62-93
ALC · 10 km
1 h 40 m
€114-151
ZRH · 100 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
2 h 25 m
€102-119
1 stop
ALC · 10 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
ZRH · 100 km
PalmaPMI
1 h 0 m
no fares
ALC · 10 km
1 h 50 m
€84-103
ZRH · 100 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 40 m
no fares
ALC · 10 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
ZRH · 100 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 5 m
€85-109
ALC · 10 km
1 h 15 m
€163-196
ZRH · 100 km
MadridMAD
1 h 5 m
€72-86
ALC · 10 km
2 h 5 m
€158-220
1 stop
ZRH · 100 km
MarrakechRAK
1 h 50 m
no fares
ALC · 10 km
3 h 15 m
no fares
BSL · 105 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 30 m
no fares
VLC · 127 km
7 h 45 m
no fares
ZRH · 100 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

MeasureAlicanteInterlaken
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 m571 m
Main airportAlicante-Elche Miguel Hernández Airport (ALC)10 km from centre124 non-stop destinationsZürich Airport (ZRH)100 km from centre181 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureAlicanteInterlaken
City population366,2216,123
People per km²1,8191,424
Museums within 10 km83
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km22
Distinct cuisines in the centre5222
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. 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.