VacationSelector

Alicante or Izmir?

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 places to eat with your weighting.

Izmir
53
match

Wins on value for money 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.

AlicanteIzmir
Beaches & swimming. Alicante leads by 22 points.22
AlicanteIzmir
Score7755
Swim season months55
Beaches 10 km334
Coast distance1 km1 km
Water distance1 km1 km
Places to eat. Alicante leads by 17 points.17
AlicanteIzmir
Score6649
Restaurants within 2 km of centre867770
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3112
Museums & heritage. Izmir leads by 1 points.1
AlicanteIzmir
Score4243
Museums within 10 km1447
Museums within 2 km of centre1127
Share of museums within 2 km %7957
Unesco sites within 50 km20
Nightlife. Izmir leads by 11 points.11
AlicanteIzmir
Score5162
Drinking venues within 4 km5911,028
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre488695
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8368
Nightclubs within 4 km5470
Nature & day trips. Alicante leads by 11 points.11
AlicanteIzmir
Score4029
Protected land share 50 km %74
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5984
Park area within 2 km60 hectares62 hectares
Good for families. Alicante leads by 7 points.7
AlicanteIzmir
Score4235
Tourist attractions within 2 km136
Park area within 2 km60 hectares62 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Izmir leads by 14 points.14
AlicanteIzmir
Score2640
Notable places within 2 km1839
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Izmir leads by 18 points.18
AlicanteIzmir
Score7189
Price level global60.835.2
Daily budget€122€100
Year-round weather. Alicante leads by 15 points.15
AlicanteIzmir
Score8772
Monthly daytime high17 °C to 31.1 °C13 °C to 33.9 °C
Monthly rainfall3 mm to 52 mm1 mm to 127 mm
Dry months115
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
Izmir
13
14
17
21
27
31
34
34
29
24
19
14
Sea temperature, °C
Alicante
15
14
15
16
18
22
25
26
25
22
19
16
Izmir
16
16
16
17
19
22
23
24
23
21
19
17
Rainfall, mm
Alicante
21
18
25
34
21
8
3
12
52
32
34
23
Izmir
119
107
77
51
33
13
1
4
22
55
96
127
Daylight, hours per day
Alicante
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Izmir
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Alicante
6
6
8
8
10
10
11
10
8
7
6
6
Izmir
5
5
7
8
10
11
13
12
10
8
6
4

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Alicante: 1991-2020 normals, Alicante (2.8 km from centre). Izmir: 1991-2020 normals, Izmir (3.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAlicanteIzmir
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 35 m
€167-378
VLC · 127 km
1 h 5 m
€46-55
ADB · 13 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 25 m
€46-56
ALC · 10 km
3 h 45 m
€119-184
ADB · 13 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 40 m
no fares
ALC · 10 km
3 h 55 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
2 h 25 m
€102-119
1 stop
ALC · 10 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 35 m
€150-169
1 stop
ALC · 10 km
3 h 25 m
€221-272
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
DusseldorfDUS, NRN
2 h 30 m
€130-152
ALC · 10 km
3 h 10 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 5 m
€85-109
ALC · 10 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 10 m
€62-93
ALC · 10 km
3 h 15 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
OsloOSL, TRF
3 h 40 m
€122-139
ALC · 10 km
3 h 55 m
no fares
SMI · 83 km
BristolBRS
2 h 25 m
€66-103
ALC · 10 km
4 h 0 m
no fares
BJV · 137 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

MeasureAlicanteIzmir
Official languageSpanishTurkish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Turkish Lira (TRY)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+3
Emergency number112112
Elevation3 m2 m
Main airportAlicante-Elche Miguel Hernández Airport (ALC)10 km from centre124 non-stop destinationsAdnan Menderes International Airport (ADB)13 km from centre120 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureAlicanteIzmir
City population366,2214,493,242
People per km²1,8194,760
Museums within 10 km829
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Distinct cuisines in the centre5220
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months5 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.