VacationSelector

Alicante or Krakow?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Alicante
56
match

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

Krakow
58
match

Wins on sights concentration and museums & heritage 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.

AlicanteKrakow
Beaches & swimming. Alicante leads by 77 points.77
AlicanteKrakow
Score770
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km339
Coast distance1 km456 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Krakow leads by 2 points.2
AlicanteKrakow
Score6668
Restaurants within 2 km of centre8671,032
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3130
Museums & heritage. Krakow leads by 33 points.33
AlicanteKrakow
Score4275
Museums within 10 km1484
Museums within 2 km of centre1169
Share of museums within 2 km %7982
Unesco sites within 50 km24
Nightlife. Krakow leads by 6 points.6
AlicanteKrakow
Score5157
Drinking venues within 4 km591836
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre488697
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8383
Nightclubs within 4 km5454
Nature & day trips. Krakow leads by 6 points.6
AlicanteKrakow
Score4046
Protected land share 50 km %714
Landscape blanket share 50 km %01
Land share of disc %59100
Park area within 2 km60 hectares79 hectares
Good for families. Krakow leads by 32 points.32
AlicanteKrakow
Score4274
Tourist attractions within 2 km1377
Park area within 2 km60 hectares79 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km14
Sights concentration. Krakow leads by 42 points.42
AlicanteKrakow
Score2668
Notable places within 2 km18198
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Krakow leads by 8 points.8
AlicanteKrakow
Score7179
Price level global60.849
Daily budget€122€133
Year-round weather. Alicante leads by 29 points.29
AlicanteKrakow
Score8758
Monthly daytime high17 °C to 31.1 °C1.5 °C to 25.3 °C
Monthly rainfall3 mm to 52 mm31 mm to 100 mm
Dry months114
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
Krakow
2
4
8
15
20
23
25
25
19
14
8
3
Sea temperature, °C
Alicante
15
14
15
16
18
22
25
26
25
22
19
16
Krakow
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Alicante
21
18
25
34
21
8
3
12
52
32
34
23
Krakow
38
31
38
47
79
77
100
75
67
51
41
35
Daylight, hours per day
Alicante
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Krakow
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Alicante
6
6
8
8
10
10
11
10
8
7
6
6
Krakow
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). Krakow: 1991-2020 normals, Krakow (10.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAlicanteKrakow
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 25 m
€46-56
ALC · 10 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 40 m
no fares
ALC · 10 km
2 h 30 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
OsloOSL, TRF
3 h 40 m
€122-139
ALC · 10 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 35 m
€150-169
1 stop
ALC · 10 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 5 m
€85-109
ALC · 10 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
2 h 25 m
€102-119
1 stop
ALC · 10 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 10 m
€62-93
ALC · 10 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 0 m
€62-83
ALC · 10 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
3 h 20 m
€88-91
ALC · 10 km
55 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
MarrakechRAK
1 h 50 m
no fares
ALC · 10 km
4 h 20 m
no fares
KRK · 11 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

MeasureAlicanteKrakow
Official languageSpanishPolish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Zloty (PLN)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCE50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation3 m219 m
Main airportAlicante-Elche Miguel Hernández Airport (ALC)10 km from centre124 non-stop destinationsKraków John Paul II International Airport (KRK)11 km from centre133 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureAlicanteKrakow
City population366,221804,237
People per km²1,8192,459
Museums within 10 km8114
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km24
Distinct cuisines in the centre5268
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.